Fixing up a Sun Fire v240 from 2003

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Minor repairs and booting up a Sun Fire v240 from 2003. This was Sun's improvement to the v100 and v120 and the first 2U server in the v series Sun Fire line. We'll 3D print some Sun hard drive sleds and have a quick look at a SunPCI III - a PC on a board for the Sun Fires.
Sun drive tray 3D print: www.thingiverse.com/thing:480...
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@andrewnoonan5786 11 месяцев назад

Some things to know about the V240... 1. The motherboard is identical to the V210. So much so you can stick a V240 motherboard in a V210. 2. The Netra V240 heatsinks are also identical but have chassis fans instead of fans on the heatsink. 3. V240 will do 16gb ram max. 4. Cpu's do NOT need to match for a dual config. It will just throttle the faster cpu to the slower speed.

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

Didn't know that about the dual config throttling... as you'll see in an upcoming video that might be very relevant 😄

@bdhaliwal24 10 месяцев назад

Sun made such beautifully designed hardware both in terms of functionality and aesthetic=.

@clabretro 10 месяцев назад

Couldn't agree more!

@chrisis429 10 месяцев назад

Awesome video, thank you! My grandfather worked on Sun equipment his entire professional career at the local ISP, and he had an entire Sun rack that we recycled when he passed. Now that I'm in networking, I really wish I would have kept onto that old hunk of metal.

@jessestrobel2 10 месяцев назад

Maybe one day you can reconstruct what he may have had in there - little bucket list goal for sure

@lpseem3770 8 месяцев назад

Your channel is pure gold. My own servers are about 10 years younger and both are working fine. A line between old crap and production in server world is very blurry.

@clabretro 8 месяцев назад

Thanks! oh yeah my main servers are a Dell PowerEdge 510 and a 720. They're getting up there.

@LeeZhiWei8219 11 месяцев назад

Yes! Another Sun video. This is awesome.

@LeeZhiWei8219 11 месяцев назад

Quite interesting how the Sun Servers use a SCC to store info, just like the Nvram in sun workstations. Good that you don't have to boot to the ok prompt and set the MAC address in bootup 😂. How about nvram variables such as like initial boot device? Is it on the SCC?

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

I've never actually tried it, but I do believe the SCC holds all the OpenBoot nvram variables!

@herdware 10 месяцев назад

One thing I made sure when I bought my gigabit switch was that it supported 10mbit half-duplex, but then again I have a lot of old machines that use 10mbit.

@asaone11 10 месяцев назад

Glad to see ya, makes me want to get my sun ultra sparc box’s out

@clabretro 10 месяцев назад

do it!

@onGlobalproductions 11 месяцев назад

There are actually connectors on the board for a SAS module, really rare. PN: 370-7592 So you can boot from an modern SSD

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

Oh interesting... didn't know about that!

@ezramiller8296 7 месяцев назад

Holy smokes! What about a V125?

@nathan9510 11 месяцев назад

I should've shipped a disk that had solaris 10 pre installed! If you get stuck and need a solaris install, I could install sol10 on a 9gb disk in my v240 and take a dd image. Then you could transfer that image to one of your disks. I have a SunPCi 1 in an Ultra 10. Its pretty neat seeing Windows 98 running in a Window on Solaris 8.

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

Haha all good. I think I'll be able to trick this thing into hitting an ok> prompt, but if not I'll take you up on the dd image offer. That's awesome about the SunPCi 1... I'm excited to see if I can get this III working!

@onGlobalproductions 11 месяцев назад

Remove disk bootup, it will go to ok prompt, then, setenv auto-boot? false Plug disk back in and reboot. It will go to the OK prompt and you can just type boot net or boot cdrom to install solaris

@AnnatarTheMaia 2 месяца назад

Other than the small CPU fans going bust, these are rock solid servers, so much so that I still use one in my datacenter at home as the primary DNS (running PowerDNS which I ported to Solaris 10 and packaged it), and NTP V4... It used to also be the central backup server, until the tape library died... awesome workhorses, these servers.

@clabretro 2 месяца назад

Definitely, I'm a big fan of these v240s

@user-sn5ts4en8c 2 месяца назад

Watched your video from beginning to end and now I remember why I don’t miss working there anymore.

@clabretro 2 месяца назад

any good stories?

@BAgodmode 10 месяцев назад

Sun was such a cool company.

@atomikrobot300099 10 месяцев назад

Great videos! Looking forward to watching the SunPCI + software + Windows install!

@clabretro 10 месяцев назад

thanks!

@user-sn5ts4en8c 2 месяца назад

I worked for Sun tech support for 15 years. Worked on the Enterprise line and SunFire line.

@br3nd4n 11 месяцев назад

Yes another video!!!! I just bought and started using a quantum LTO5 drive for archiving. But now, I also want a Sun machine. They're very cool looking machines.

@SB-qm5wg Месяц назад

I've been enjoying your Sun series. Thank you.

@mediis 9 месяцев назад

Oh man, this is hard core work pr0n from the middle of my career. We (superpages ) used to have about a 100 of these.

@JasonsLabVideos 11 месяцев назад

this was a good watch !! Thanks for this !

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

thanks!

@evan141 8 месяцев назад

Great video thanks!!

@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur 2 месяца назад

There are scsi to sata converters. Meaning you can use sata ssd's inside the scsi brackets. That would mean the network can be sped up at least 4 times.

@Ryet9 3 месяца назад

eucalyptus oil is gr8 for removing stickers..and smells gr8

@nibrobb 10 месяцев назад

Hahah the option "d - play DOOM" at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1570">26:10</a>. A bit disappointed they didn't ship it with doom though

@souplike.homogenate 10 месяцев назад

"From 2003" *_sweats at his workplace's still running legacy hardware_

@clabretro 10 месяцев назад

haha seriously.

@ezramiller8296 7 месяцев назад

So Gentoo and Debian still make an unofficial port for Sparc64. Also Bonslack has a Slackware 14.1 or 15.0 port for Sparc64. I haven’t tried the Bonslack, but I did almost get Gentoo installed. And Debian had a kernel panic at the time of install when running apt-get upgrade. I think they fixed it.

@stonent 10 месяцев назад

Those sleds look a LOT like ones used in Dell Equalogic PS6500 SANs. Same eject mechanism.

@AureliusR 10 месяцев назад

Hmm, it's always been my experience that you should remove thermal pads if you're going to apply thermal compound. It's *probably* fine, but the thermal characteristics of the two materials are different, and it probably won't conduct heat as well. Down the road it might be worth pulling that heatsink, scraping off the old thermal pad, and either replacing it with a new thermal pad or good, high quality thermal compound,

@clabretro 10 месяцев назад

Yeah I think you're probably right, I've been meaning to just do thermal compound as you say.

@whuzup3 2 месяца назад

Does anyone know if the cpu has to be inserted in any orientation? I can see the dot and the notched corner on the cpu but nothing on the board to show how it should be installed.

@Gentlemanspot 10 месяцев назад

Yells 'PLAY DOOM" at screen!

@markpriceful 11 месяцев назад

With lack of ALOM login, don't you still have access to the system console (to get to ok prompt) on the system's DB9 serial port? Or is the serial console locked to only being accessed via ALOM?

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

That's what I had expected, but I don't get any output from the DB9 port. I also read you can wait 3-4 minutes after the ALOM login times out and it should drop you to the ok prompt, but no luck there either. I'm sure there's a way to do it, it'll just take some more experimenting and research.

@oldschooldude8370 2 месяца назад

Slightly off topic but Sun created java which is literally everywhere today.

@user-wu4cw5ed5w 10 месяцев назад

I was wondering throughout watching an entire video, could those Sun Fires be used as routers?

@clabretro 10 месяцев назад

oh yeah you could throw pfsense on there or something. it'd be an expensive router power bill though 😆

@shrikedecil 11 месяцев назад

The top of the CPU and the bottom of the heatsink are specifically machined flat enough for solid thermal contact ... such that the tiny dings from scraping with a screwdriver are something to consider.

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, I figured the scrapes from the screwdriver were better than having build-up from the old thermal compound. It's definitely a risk but these machines won't ever be on for more than a few hours and I would keep an eye on temps if I had them on for long periods.

@runninggames771 10 месяцев назад

Isnt that what thermal paste is for?

@shrikedecil 10 месяцев назад

@@runninggames771 You want as much of the CPU and the heatsink as you can manage touching *directly*. Yes, thermal paste is precisely because there's always grooves and non-flatness, and CPU-paste-heatsink is a lot better than CPU-air-heatsink. But the *goal* is actually CPU-heatsink. "dings" can screw things up. Imagine a marble under a table plate. There's an area now with *thick* paste. That's no good.

@LeeZhiWei8219 11 месяцев назад

Also! I wonder. Since some of the Ultrasparc servers do have a pci/pci-x/pcie slot. Can we put a GPU in it, to see solaris booting from open firmware. And maybe usb keyboards and mouses?

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

Yeah! I believe it's possible. I'm not sure which GPUs are compatible, but it's on my list to hunt one down eventually and try that out.

@onGlobalproductions 11 месяцев назад

Xrv100, Xvr600, xvr1200 are compatible, i know have them myself in similar system

@andrewnoonan5786 11 месяцев назад

@@onGlobalproductions xvr-1200 is a nice card. Had one in my Blade 2000 for many years.

@andrewnoonan5786 11 месяцев назад

Generic usb keyboards are an issue due to simulating the stop-a used to interrupt a sparc and drop back to the prom.

@jonathankovacs1809 4 месяца назад

If I may ask how does one reinstall Solaris 10? I have inherited a Sun Netra T2000 and of course I did not get the admin credentials the original owner/sys admin passed away 😞How can I reload the OS so that I can use this system? any help would be appreciated. I have looked all over the internet could not get a proper answer!

@onGlobalproductions 11 месяцев назад

Hah Sunpci Nice!! Try upgrading win xp to win 7, failed for me, but thats a nice card to play many hours with it. And play Pinball on a solaris box 😊

@clabretro 11 месяцев назад

Ha, nice! Probably gonna start with Windows XP first then see where I get.

@andrewnoonan5786 11 месяцев назад

There was a native port of Doom for Solaris.

@andrewnoonan5786 11 месяцев назад

@@clabretro xbill is always fun to play. ;)

@DouglasWalrath 10 месяцев назад

would a scsi2sd work with these?

@clabretro 10 месяцев назад

It might, I just picked up a BlueSCSI that I'm going to try eventually.

@DouglasWalrath 10 месяцев назад

@@clabretro filling a server with BlueSCSIs would be nuts

@worskaas 10 месяцев назад

Why not use a SCSI to SATA Bridge Adapter so that you can use a small SSD drive. I think that will save a lot of waiting time and save on power and noise. Or is there a SSD drive with a scsi interface that you can plug in?

@clabretro 10 месяцев назад

I had trouble finding an adapter, any SCSI to SATA adapters you would recommend?

@ezramiller8296 7 месяцев назад

@@clabretro I went down that rabbit hole as well😂. Unfortunately. I didn’t find any. Growing up, I don’t remember seeing SCSI drives, let alone ultra wide SCSI drives. But that was probably because scsi drives weren’t used in home systems.