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New Oracle x86 Server – Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) capable

The new Oracle X5-2 & X5-2L x86 Servers are shipping and they follow the same format as previous generations with 8, 12 & 24 disk chassis. Changes are the use of the  newer Intel Haswell-EP Xeon E5-2600 v3 range (up to two 18-Core), DDR4 memory, 12Gb SAS disk controllers and more DIMM slots, 24 in […]

By |January 30th, 2015|Categories: News||0 Comments

Low cost Solaris SPARC Dev/Test Server

You’re running SPARC T5-2 UNIX servers and want some separate lower cost servers for Dev/Test, what do you do? Buying more T5-2’s may not be in the budget and even a T5-2 single socket comes in with a minimum configuration price of nearly €28K plus support.

The easy answer is buy an entry level Fujitsu […]

By |December 18th, 2014|Categories: Tech Talk||0 Comments

Link Aggregation across two switches in Solaris 11

Oracle Solaris supports the organization of network interfaces into link aggregations. A link aggregation consists of several interfaces on a system that are configured together as a single, logical unit. Link aggregation, also referred to as trunking, is defined in the IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Standard.

When connecting through a switch that switch must support […]

By |July 28th, 2014|Categories: Tech Talk||0 Comments