[LATE SUMMARY] Logical system partitions and Solaris 10

Sorry for the late summary.  I received one reply (thanks JV) posted 
below, and a lot of vacation notes from people who were on vacation.  
JV's reply and my original message are posted below.

I am assuming that I didn't receive many replies because my question 
was poorly worded.  Probably I should have wrote:

I want to play with logical system partitions for my own personal 
training, i.e. non commercial use.  I have access to a E3500.  If this 
will work, please let me know.  If not, what lower end system would be 
allow this.  I did look around at www.sun.com , but I didn't come 
across any documents as such as a HCL.  If you have a url where I can 
RTFM, I would appreciate it.

Thank you,

If I get any further with this, I will update my summary

Jerry K

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mid range equipment e3800/e4800/e6800 can already do domaining.
If UE3500/4500/6500s can do domains, Sun is full of idiots because
then why would I upgrade to an e6800 when I can buy a dozen used
e6500s and make 120 virtual domains for the same price?

Don't know about Solaris 10 for SPARC, but with Solaris Express I got
the beta for Solaris 10/INTEL x86. Of course there are no domains for
x86 hardware, but I betcha domaining is for modern US-III/SunFire/PCI
stuff only. An e3500 is old, they came out in 1996. Let the poor old
dog rest in peace.

JV

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On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 12:12  PM, Sun List wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I haven't played with logical system partitions under Solaris since my 
> E10K days and I would like to, if possible, work with them again for 
> my own personal training purposes, at some point in the near future on 
> lesser equipment.
>
> I did do some searching on Sun's web site before posting this and 
> after looking through several hundred links, I came up with nothing.  
> I also did a yahoo search and came across a few high level links (see 
> below) which also discuss an intermediate technology coming up called 
> "Solaris Zones".
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/30179.html
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1094509,00.asp
>
>
> My specific question is, my understanding is that logical system 
> partitioning will be enhanced in Solaris 10 and it will be available 
> on possibly mid range equipment?  If my understanding is correct, 
> would I be able to use something like an E3500 with 4 processors for 
> my own personal training?  And while I do understand that Solaris 10 
> is still in beta, is there a system list of equipment that logical 
> system partitions will work under?
>
> Also, if you have signed an NDA with Sun, I am not asking anyone to 
> violate their NDA.
>
> Thanks, and I will summarize,
>
> Jerry K
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