On 2010-11-09, Scott Stanley <amorphous.yet....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've heard a lot of praise for Sparc gear on this thread. Do many of
> you have much experience with Sun's amd gear?
>
> When using the "I'm only referring to Sparc" disclaimer, what's being
> implied here (because I know nobody's saying that hardware fails
> because of the CPU type, or am I wrong on that)?
>
> Is it that Sparc boxes are for mission critical apps, and so "let's
> use only the best hardware"?
>
> Anyway, I was considering buying a Sun Fire V20z (amd) as a home
> server, and would like to hear about any good or bad experiences with
> Sun+AMD (googling yields only media hype and performance reviews, but
> not real world stuff).
v20z is a newisys machine not a sun machine. (someone else also oem'd
them - maybe ibm?). the integrated disk mirroring works fine (mpi).
it can be slightly fussy about PCI cards, mine refused to boot with
an ami(4) connected.
the management port is a separate embedded linux machine (with
its own internal copy of conserver!) and has a dedicated nic,
so it does work with OpenBSD on the main machine. if you want
to use serial console iirc you'll need to disable console
redirection in the bios and just set it up in the boot loader.
disks are of course scsi and only 2, so not ideal if you want
large volumes of storage. (make sure you get the trays, they are
not the standard easily-obtainable sun spud brackets),
they're useful machines and not bad - much better than the x2100 -
but I'd hesitate to recommend almost any 1U rackmount box as a home
server due to the noise levels. For home server use I think most
people would be happier with something like an HP ML110 or one of
the smaller Dell towers with an sas/sata raid card.
OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #622: Sun Nov 7 14:57:37 MST 2010
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 4226220032 (4030MB)
avail mem = 4099817472 (3909MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0xefc10 (44 entries)
bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies Ltd. version "V1.35.5.1" date 10/22/2008
bios0: Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V20z
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: sleep states S0 S1 S5
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP HPET APIC SPCR SSDT SSDT SSDT SRAT
acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S1) THOR(S1) USB0(S1) USB1(S1) Z000(S5) Z002(S5)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252, 2592.99 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW
cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 1MB 64b/line
16-way L2 cache
cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: AMD erratum 89 present, BIOS upgrade may be required
cpu0: apic clock running at 199MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252, 2592.62 MHz
cpu1:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW
cpu1: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 1MB 64b/line
16-way L2 cache
cpu1: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu1: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu1: AMD erratum 89 present, BIOS upgrade may be required
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 24 pins
ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 3 pa 0xfd000000, version 11, 4 pins
ioapic2 at mainbus0: apid 4 pa 0xfd001000, version 11, 4 pins
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 1 (THOR)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 2 (Z000)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 3 (Z002)
acpicpu0 at acpi0: PSS
acpicpu1 at acpi0: PSS
acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB
ipmi at mainbus0 not configured
cpu0: Cool'n'Quiet K8 2592 MHz: speeds: 2600 2400 2200 2000 1800 1000 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
ppb0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "AMD 8111 PCI-PCI" rev 0x07
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
ohci0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "AMD 8111 USB" rev 0x0b: apic 2 int 19 (irq 11),
version 1.0, legacy support
ohci1 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 "AMD 8111 USB" rev 0x0b: apic 2 int 19 (irq 11),
version 1.0, legacy support
vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 "Trident Blade 3D" rev 0x3a
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
amdpcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "AMD 8111 LPC" rev 0x05
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "AMD 8111 IDE" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0
configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives)
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, CD-224E, 1.9A> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
amdpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "AMD 8111 Power" rev 0x05
ppb1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "AMD 8131 PCIX" rev 0x12
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
bge0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5704C" rev 0x03, BCM5704 A3
(0x2003): apic 3 int 1 (irq 5), address 00:09:3d:11:f4:f3
brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0
bge1 at pci2 dev 2 function 1 "Broadcom BCM5704C" rev 0x03, BCM5704 A3
(0x2003): apic 3 int 2 (irq 3), address 00:09:3d:11:f4:f4
brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0
mpi0 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 "Symbios Logic 53c1030" rev 0x08: apic 3 int 3
(irq 11)
scsibus1 at mpi0: 16 targets, initiator 7
sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <LSILOGIC, 1030 IM IM, 1000> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 277519MB, 512 bytes/sec, 568358912 sec total
mpi0: phys disk 0 Sync at 160MHz width 16bit offset 127 QAS 0 DT 1 IU 1
mpi0: phys disk 1 Sync at 160MHz width 16bit offset 127 QAS 0 DT 1 IU 1
aapic0 at pci0 dev 10 function 1 "AMD 8131 PCIX IOAPIC" rev 0x01
ppb2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "AMD 8131 PCIX" rev 0x12
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
aapic1 at pci0 dev 11 function 1 "AMD 8131 PCIX IOAPIC" rev 0x01
pchb0 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 0Fh HyperTransport" rev 0x00
pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 0Fh Address Map" rev 0x00
pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 0Fh DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00
kate0 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 0Fh Misc Cfg" rev 0x00
pchb3 at pci0 dev 25 function 0 "AMD AMD64 0Fh HyperTransport" rev 0x00
pchb4 at pci0 dev 25 function 1 "AMD AMD64 0Fh Address Map" rev 0x00
pchb5 at pci0 dev 25 function 2 "AMD AMD64 0Fh DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00
kate1 at pci0 dev 25 function 3 "AMD AMD64 0Fh Misc Cfg" rev 0x00
isa0 at amdpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com0: console
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: W83627HF rev 0x0d
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
uplcom0 at uhub0 port 1 "Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller D" rev
1.10/4.00 addr 2
ucom0 at uplcom0
vscsi0 at root
scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
$ sysctl hw.sensors
hw.sensors.mpi0.drive0=online (sd0), OK
hw.sensors.kate0.temp2=28.00 degC
hw.sensors.kate1.temp2=36.00 degC
$ sudo bioctl sd0
Volume Status Size Device
mpi0 0 Online 290999762432 sd0 RAID1
0 Online 299999999488 0:0.0 noencl <MAXTOR ATLAS10K5_300SCAJNZM
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1 Online 299999999488 0:1.0 noencl <MAXTOR ATLAS10K5_300SCAJNZM
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