Sun Fire V490

Time for my first blog in 2011 ! And it’s about Sun… hoouuw hooouw… 😀

Last year a good friend gave me a Sun Fire V490. The system was new and never used but had no system board. After several months searching for an affordable system board with no success I forgot the system and payed others more attention. But a few weeks ago I got an unbelievable offer. A fully populated Sun Fire V490 with two system boards, four 1,5 Ghz UltraSPARC 4+ CPUs and 32 Gigs of RAM for only little money! Yeaaahhh…Last friday I visited the company who sold the Sun. They used the machine as a SAP test and pre-live system but changed everything to IBM Power servers. After admire their amazing new data center I put the Sun Fire V490 into my car and went home. 🙂

Because I don’t need 8 cores and 32 Gigs RAM in a single system, I installed one system board into my other new V490. 🙂 Now I have two fast and nice Sun Fire V490 servers. The UltraSPARC 4+ CPUs are amazing fast. Not comparable with US3 or US3+… I enjoy working with these two SPARC systems. Next week I will install an Oracle Database Grid (11g R2)… The first grid will use classic fibre channel SAN and my second test will use 4 Gbits ports per machine and Oracle dNFS !

Thanks to Otmanix for this incredible machine ! 🙂

And now it’s time for some pictures and console outputs. 😉

Server 1:

[locadm@ius095 ~]$ prtdiag -v
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Fire V490
System clock frequency: 150 MHz
Memory size: 16384 Megabytes

========================= CPUs ===============================================

          Run   E$  CPU     CPU
Brd  CPU  MHz   MB  Impl.   Mask
--- ----- ---- ---- ------- ----
 A  0, 16 1500 32.0 US-IV+   2.2
 A  2, 18 1500 32.0 US-IV+   2.2

========================= Memory Configuration ===============================

          Logical  Logical  Logical
     MC   Bank     Bank     Bank         DIMM    Interleave  Interleaved
Brd  ID   num      size     Status       Size    Factor      with
---  ---  ----     ------   -----------  ------  ----------  -----------
 A    0     0      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    0     1      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    0     2      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    0     3      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    2     0      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    2     1      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    2     2      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    2     3      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0

========================= IO Cards =========================

                    Bus  Max
 IO  Port Bus       Freq Bus  Dev,
Type  ID  Side Slot MHz  Freq Func State Name                              Model
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- --------------------------------  ----------------------
PCI   8    A    0    66   66  1,0  ok    SUNW,emlxs-pci10df,fc00/fp (fp)   LP10000-S
PCI   8    A    1    66   66  2,0  ok    SUNW,emlxs-pci10df,fc00/fp (fp)   LP10000-S             

=========================  Environmental Status =========================

System Temperatures (Celsius):
-------------------------------
Device          Temperature     Status
---------------------------------------
CPU0             49             OK
CPU2             51             OK
DBP0             23             OK

=================================

Front Status Panel:
-------------------
Keyswitch position: NORMAL

System LED Status:

  LOCATOR   FAULT    POWER
  -------  -------  -------
   [OFF]    [OFF]    [ ON]

=================================

Disk Status:
------------
DISK 0: [NO_FAULT]
DISK 1: [NO_FAULT]

=================================

Fan Status:
-----------

Fan Tray        Fan              RPM    Status
-----------     ----            -----   ----------
FAN_TRAY_0      CPU0_FAN         5660   [NO_FAULT]
FAN_TRAY_0      CPU1_FAN         4054   [NO_FAULT]
FAN_TRAY_0      CPU2_FAN         4000   [NO_FAULT]
FAN_TRAY_1      IO0_FAN          4000   [NO_FAULT]
FAN_TRAY_1      IO1_FAN          4225   [NO_FAULT]

=================================

Power Supplies:
---------------

Supply     Status        Fault     Fan Fail   Temp Fail
------    ------------   --------  ---------  ---------
PS0      [NO_FAULT    ]   OFF       OFF       OFF
PS1      [NO_FAULT    ]   OFF       OFF       OFF       

=================================

========================= HW Revisions =======================================

System PROM revisions:
----------------------
OBP 4.18.8 2006/01/19 11:19

IO ASIC revisions:
------------------
         Port
Model     ID  Status Version
-------- ---- ------ -------
Schizo    8     ok      7
Schizo    9     ok      7

Server 2:

[root@ius096 ~]# prtdiag -v
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Fire V490
System clock frequency: 150 MHz
Memory size: 16384 Megabytes

========================= CPUs ===============================================

          Run   E$  CPU     CPU
Brd  CPU  MHz   MB  Impl.   Mask
--- ----- ---- ---- ------- ----
 A  0, 16 1500 32.0 US-IV+   2.2
 A  2, 18 1500 32.0 US-IV+   2.2

========================= Memory Configuration ===============================

          Logical  Logical  Logical
     MC   Bank     Bank     Bank         DIMM    Interleave  Interleaved
Brd  ID   num      size     Status       Size    Factor      with
---  ---  ----     ------   -----------  ------  ----------  -----------
 A    0     0      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    0     1      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    0     2      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    0     3      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    2     0      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    2     1      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    2     2      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0
 A    2     3      2048MB   no_status    1024MB     8-way        0

========================= IO Cards =========================

=========================  Environmental Status =========================

System Temperatures (Celsius):
-------------------------------
Device          Temperature     Status
---------------------------------------
CPU0             52             OK
CPU2             57             OK
DBP0             26             OK

=================================

Front Status Panel:
-------------------
Keyswitch position: NORMAL

System LED Status:

  LOCATOR   FAULT    POWER
  -------  -------  -------
   [OFF]    [OFF]    [ ON]

=================================

Disk Status:
------------
DISK 0: [NO_FAULT]
DISK 1: [NO_FAULT]

=================================

Fan Status:
-----------

Fan Tray        Fan              RPM    Status
-----------     ----            -----   ----------
FAN_TRAY_0      CPU0_FAN         5660   [NO_FAULT]
FAN_TRAY_0      CPU1_FAN         4054   [NO_FAULT]
FAN_TRAY_0      CPU2_FAN         3947   [NO_FAULT]
FAN_TRAY_1      IO0_FAN          4054   [NO_FAULT]
FAN_TRAY_1      IO1_FAN          4166   [NO_FAULT]

=================================

Power Supplies:
---------------

Supply     Status        Fault     Fan Fail   Temp Fail
------    ------------   --------  ---------  ---------
PS0      [NO_FAULT    ]   OFF       OFF       OFF
PS1      [NO_FAULT    ]   OFF       OFF       OFF       

=================================

========================= HW Revisions =======================================

System PROM revisions:
----------------------
OBP 4.18.8 2006/01/19 11:19

IO ASIC revisions:
------------------
         Port
Model     ID  Status Version
-------- ---- ------ -------
Schizo    8     ok      7
Schizo    9     ok      7