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Operating Systems Solaris Anyone has problems with new Blade 2500???? Post 94329 by networkfre@k on Thursday 29th of December 2005 10:35:49 AM

12-29-2005

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I�ve searched the SUN support site (sunsolve) with my SUN partner account (I "see" almost everything even internal documents) and there is no entry about the blade 2500 to have any problems right now...

I think its save to buy a Blade 2500.

Blade 1000/2000:

If you want to sign a support contract with SUN to support the workstations , I wouldnt buy the blade 1000/2000 since the contract is really expensive.
I think the blade 1000/2000 ist the "more advanced" workstation (SUN Fire 280R in a workstation case) in comparison with the blade 2500.

The Blade 1000/2000 has UltraSPARC III CPUs up to 2x1,2Ghz with 8MB Cache and the Blade 2500 has UltraSPARC IIIi with up to 2x1,6Ghz with 1MB Cache.
Blade 1000/2000 has space for two internal Fibre Channel Drives (FC-AL) in a 1Gbit/s FC-AL Disk Subsystem powered by an onboard Qlogic FC Controller while the 2500 has an Ultra160 SCSI backplane for two U320 disks.
You will get the same performance on the internal disks I think.
Supported are 72GB FC-AL disks in the 1000/2000 and 146GB SCSI disks in the 2500, but also 2x300GB FC-AL works fine in the blade 1000/2000 and
2x300GB SCSI works in the 2500.

When you not gonna sign a contract I would buy the Blade 1000/2000 with two CPUs and 2-4GB of RAM. With the 1000/2000 you have an SF280R under your desk. (BTW: I own a blade 1000 with 2x750Mhz,4GB RAM,2x72GB disks and I�m really happy with this workstation ! It runs just fine and realtively fast)

The other side of the knife with 1000/2000 is the expensive spare part list.
When a CPU breaks you have to investigate around 4000-5500 $ to get a new one from SUN, or you pay around 500-1000$ to get one off ebay.
Same with the FC-AL Disks , one 72GB has a list price of around 2.500$ !!

greets

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wsreg_get_vendor

wsreg_set_vendor(3WSREG)			    Product Install Registry Library Functions				  wsreg_set_vendor(3WSREG)

NAME

       wsreg_set_vendor, wsreg_get_vendor - set or get the vendor of a componentt

SYNOPSIS

       cc [flag ...]  file ...-lwsreg [library ...]
       #include <wsreg.h>

       int wsreg_set_vendor(Wsreg_component *comp, const char *vendor);

       char *wsreg_get_vendor(const Wsreg_component *comp);

DESCRIPTION

       The  wsreg_set_vendor()	function  sets the vendor specified by vendor in the component specified by comp.  The vendor argument is a string
       that identifies the vendor of the component.  If a vendor has already been set in the specified component, the  resources  associated  with
       the previously set vendor are released.

       The  wsreg_get_vendor() function gets the vendor string from the component specified by comp.  The resulting string must be released by the
       caller.

RETURN VALUES

       The wsreg_set_vendor() function returns a non-zero value if the vendor was set correctly; otherwise it returns 0.

       The wsreg_get_vendor() function returns a copy of the vendor from the specified component.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       wsreg_initialize(3WSREG), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    22 Sep 2000 					  wsreg_set_vendor(3WSREG)