Fixing up a Sun Fire v240 from 2003

Minor repairs and booting up a Sun Fire v240 from 2003. This was Sun's improvement to the v100 and v120 and the first 2U server in the v series Sun Fire line. We'll 3D print some Sun hard drive sleds and have a quick look at a SunPCI III - a PC on a board for the Sun Fires.

Rack stuff

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

[bdhaliwal]

Sun made such beautifully designed hardware both in terms of functionality and aesthetic=.

[lpseem]

Your channel is pure gold. My own servers are about 10 years younger and both are working fine. A line between old crap and production in server world is very blurry.

[chrisis]

Awesome video, thank you! My grandfather worked on Sun equipment his entire professional career at the local ISP, and he had an entire Sun rack that we recycled when he passed. Now that I'm in networking, I really wish I would have kept onto that old hunk of metal.

[RobertMoore-xw]

I worked for Sun tech support for 15 years. Worked on the Enterprise line and SunFire line.

[LeeZhiWei]

Yes! Another Sun video. This is awesome.

[andrewnoonan]

Some things to know about the V240... 1. The motherboard is identical to the V210. So much so you can stick a V240 motherboard in a V210. 2. The Netra V240 heatsinks are also identical but have chassis fans instead of fans on the heatsink. 3. V240 will do 16gb ram max. 4. Cpu's do NOT need to match for a dual config. It will just throttle the faster cpu to the slower speed.

[asaone]

Glad to see ya, makes me want to get my sun ultra sparc box’s out

[brndn]

Yes another video!!!!
I just bought and started using a quantum LTO5 drive for archiving. But now, I also want a Sun machine. They're very cool looking machines.

[atomikrobot]

Great videos! Looking forward to watching the SunPCI + software + Windows install!

[herdware]

One thing I made sure when I bought my gigabit switch was that it supported 10mbit half-duplex, but then again I have a lot of old machines that use 10mbit.

[AnnatarTheMaia]

Other than the small CPU fans going bust, these are rock solid servers, so much so that I still use one in my datacenter at home as the primary DNS (running PowerDNS which I ported to Solaris 10 and packaged it), and NTP V4... It used to also be the central backup server, until the tape library died... awesome workhorses, these servers.

[nathan]

I should've shipped a disk that had solaris 10 pre installed! If you get stuck and need a solaris install, I could install sol10 on a 9gb disk in my v240 and take a dd image. Then you could transfer that image to one of your disks.

I have a SunPCi 1 in an Ultra 10. Its pretty neat seeing Windows 98 running in a Window on Solaris 8.

[onGlobalproductions]

There are actually connectors on the board for a SAS module, really rare.

PN: 370-7592
So you can boot from an modern SSD

[SB-qmwg]

I've been enjoying your Sun series. Thank you.

[mediis]

Oh man, this is hard core work pr0n from the middle of my career. We (superpages ) used to have about a 100 of these.

[JasonsLabVideos]

this was a good watch !! Thanks for this !

[nibrobb]

Hahah the option "d - play DOOM" at 26:10. A bit disappointed they didn't ship it with doom though

[oldschooldude]

Slightly off topic but Sun created java which is literally everywhere today.

[FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur]

There are scsi to sata converters. Meaning you can use sata ssd's inside the scsi brackets. That would mean the network can be sped up at least 4 times.

[stonent]

Those sleds look a LOT like ones used in Dell Equalogic PS6500 SANs. Same eject mechanism.