Re: [Testbed-admins] GENI proposal

[Robert P Ricci <ricci@cs.utah.edu>]

The best place to send these sorts of questions is the testbed-admins
list, which I've CCed.

We don't have any experience with Sun machines at all. I'm not sure that
anyone is running an Emulab based on them. What we (and, I think, most
others) use are typically Dell server-class machines.

I assume these are x86-based Sun machines? They *might* work, but you
will need to verify that they can be booted with PXE.

Our page discussing hardware recommendations is here:
    http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/HWRecommend

Thus spake Seung-Jong Park on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:24:23PM -0500:
> Robert,
> 
> I have a question regarding servers which we are going to purchase.
> 
> We will purchase SUN server 4240.
> We concern that SUN 4240 has some compatibility issues with FreeBSD 6.3 or 
> earlier version which Emulab requres for testbed.
> 
> Do you think that this is a real problem ?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Jay
> .
> Seung-Jong Park, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Computer Science and CCT
> Louisiana State University

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