Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:24:05 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie to FreeBSD on SPARC - questions about Sun hardware Message-ID: <4B4A6FA5.1010002@netscape.net>
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Hi, I'm quite new to FreeBSD as the only things that I've done are a lot of research and created a radio from it on an x86 box! I run a few SPARC based systems currently which run a combination of OpenSolaris, SXCE, Solaris9 and 10 and am planning to upgrade to more Sun hardware pretty soon within the next few weeks. I plan to grab a Fire V480 and use it as a mainframe server so I have to ask about the compatibility of Sun hardware and FreeBSD SPARC port?? The reason why I need to know is that I had Sun Raid Manager 6.22.1 installed on Solaris 10 then upgraded to SXCE on a Sun Enterprise 420r server which was hooked up to an A1000 and D1000 disk boxes. Subsequently RM6 didn't work anymore when installed on SXCE as was EOL so I have a concern that if I get the V480 and hook something like a Sun S1 or the A/D1000's up to it will the OS detect the hardware and enable me to create LUN's or at least format and partition the drives? Also, since I currently run Linux on many of my platforms I am wondering how the SPARC port differs if at all from the x86 software wise? With Linux for example if one installs say the Fedora or Debian distro on any non-x86 hardware things are removed; my main needs are to run Cacti, Munin, and perhaps even Icecast2, Darkice, Xmms2 and Dupal5.... ok Dupal is a php app so should work but the rest of course are of concern! Just quickly to finalize my questions: how does the performance of FreeBSD on SPARC compare with running Solaris on the same platform/architecture?? Basically apart from applications residing in the ports collection what other benefits will I get? Like Solaris has Zones while BSD has Jails - that kind of thing I'm after..... Many thanks, Kaya
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