Sun rackable servers

[KenCunningham]

Folks,

we're looking at buying racks to house four systems, two systems per rack. Does anyone:

a) Have any experience as to whether Sun offer racks for their systems.

b) Whether these racks can be obtained with an integrated shared keyboard/flat screen monitor in the manner of the IBM type which can be folded up and slid away when not in use.

Apologies if the answer's out there - a search of Sun's website produced nothing, but that's not to say the info isn't there, just that my keywords were inadequate.

 

[Annihilannic]

I recommend using a serial terminal concentrator to manage many Sun servers. We use the Cyclades TS 2000 (32 port) and 3000 (48 port), but there are quite a few out there.

They allow you to connect from the network to the serial console of any server using telnet or SSH, so you can actually have a terminal with chair in front of it (what luxury!!) to work from.

I know Sun do offer racks as we used to use them for A5x00 storage, but can't tell you much about them I'm afraid.

Annihilannic.

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks Anihilannic, I'll check it out.

 

[newbuser]

if you can tell me what kind of systems you have exactly I can tell you what racks you need exactly. I have access to that specific info

what size cabinet are you going to rack mount them in?
56" 60" 72"

 

[tuka]

Sun has racks, go to google and search for sun racks or go to the Sun.com site.

If you are getting new Sun server that has the RSC cards
install I recommend using the RSC . The RSC allows you to telnet into the system as a console.
The RSC is bundled with the media and easy to setup.