After receive a couple of reply, here is the summary: The Sun Fire T1000 is intented to be very lost cost server to be use as a cluster node. That explain the non-redundant power supply and hard disk. Same thing for no optical media drive to save cost, you will have to Jumpstart the system. It is possible to add a HBA and to boot on SAN. Got no news about iSCSI although. Because I am looking for a standalone server, I will have to look for the T2000. Conclusion : Sun fire T1000 = lost cost cluster node server On 3/23/06, Francois Bousquet <francois.bousquet@gmail.com> wrote: > > We are looking to purchase a Sun Fire T1000 to replace a couple of our old > test servers, but when I review the server's specifications I notice that > only 1 hard disk was present in the server. In addition, there was no > CD/DVD drive for easy installation. > > http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t1000/specifications.jsp > > What is the purpose of having a server with only 1 hard disk, if it is > failing the whole server is down? > Is it possible to boot on SAN with iSCSI from one of the 4 gigabit > ethernet interface? > > I know I should probably go for a T2000, but the T1000 was cheaper but I > would expect it to have at least 2 hard drives to do mirror with them. > > What are the best practice for T1000 usage? > > - Francois _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Mar 28 13:43:35 2006
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