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> My experience with using older SPARC servers for testing > various things is that they're rather disappointing, > both in terms of value and performance..

> My experience with using older SPARC servers for testing > various things is that they're rather disappointing, > both in terms of value and performance.. I vaguely recall a sparc running solaris that could hot-plug cpu and memory boards (as long as you kept at least one in). I could imagine some customers at the time found that useful.

fulafel 12y ago
Only by shutting down the partition and its os instance, last I heard. Not really much better than having separate physical boxes.
- mritun 12y ago
  No, you can offline any CPU/memory board using svcadm and do that. No need to shut down the instance.
vidarh 12y ago
"Lots" of enterprise systems can do stuff like that. E.g. IBM has systems that can do it as well.