Fun Stuff to Play With
I thought I’d post a few photos of the lab gear allocated to my projects. I have the 2 racks right next to the chair. There is a 2 node cluster of heavily loaded HP DL585s, an 8 node cluster of HP DL145s, a 2 node cluster of HP DL385s, a 2 node cluster of IBM xSeries x366 , some Chaparall SAN, Imperial Solid State Disk, MSA 1500, DS4x00, and other goodies (e.g., FC and Ethernet switches, etc) … all running Oracle on Redhat and SuSE Linux.
And the DL585s are cabled to some LUNs in the Data Direct Network cab:
And, when I schedule it, I am granted LUNs from the following storage arrays:
That is about 10% of the lab gear here… lots of AC.
Not pictured is the Texas Memory System I have on loan from the nice guys at TMS.
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Excuse me while I drool.
I can’t help it 😉
Any reason for not using Solaris for x86? I had to ask 🙂
Regarding Solaris x86, I’d love to. However, PolyServe Matrix Server products are not ported to Solaris. The fact that 9i was never ported to Solaris x86 was an odd curve ball but that is why I never picked it up.
/me weeps, though not in sadness, but as a joyful man who finally finds that which he has sought his entire life
*coughs*
Man, that is some excellent hardware. I bet it looks great in the dark too (blink blink).
that is about 10% of the lab…that’s just what I get to play with…our scalable file serving guys get the good stuff