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Ever work with Sun servers? Yeah, you could swap out cards, CPU, ram, drive, power, without halting or rebooting the OS. But not just Sun servers. This is
by segmondy 9y ago
Ever work with Sun servers? Yeah, you could swap out cards, CPU, ram, drive, power, without halting or rebooting the OS. But not just Sun servers. This is not a feature unique to Alphaservers/VMS.
- malux85 9y agoNope! I didn't know that. Very interesting. The Alphas had a motherboard and daughterboard - and the daughterboard was a generalized bus, so a single slot could have a RAM or CPU slot in it --- were Sun servers capable of this too? Or was a RAM slot a RAM slot and a CPU slot a CPU slot and they were not interchangeable? I'm curious because I've never seen any other machines with a generalized CPU/RAM bus, I'm curious if Sun hardware supported this? If it did, can you remember the model numbers so I can read up on it?
- segmondy 9y agodiscussions here too - https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/1jlmnz/ram_is_hotswappable/ https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/1jlmn... http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3688771/Server-Snapshot-SPARC-Enterprise-M8000-M9000-Servers.htm http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3688771/Serv...
- seasoned_geek 9y agoIt was originally a DEC specific design copied/stolen by others. DEC created the design concept of a common back plane. Other than some logic switches to control power/enabling, there was nothing it provided. Every machine was completely customizable. I'm not a hardware buy, but I believe this is a carry over from the VAX days long before there was SUN.