<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Solaris 10 won't run, but Solaris 11 will ( + OpenBSD and Linux). They still rock OpenBoot 4, so work the same way the v880 does. They use iLOM for remote management, the design is a bit... weird but there is no licensing (unlike IDRAC/ILO). I'd say go for it!<br><br>Cheers,</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 17 March 2026 9:41:07\u202fpm AEDT, silcreval via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="net-thunderbird-android__plain-text-message-pre"><div dir="auto">I've been thinking of getting a 'newer' sun server, and a friend offered me a T4 (just a single CPU but has memory and disks).<br><br>Its a massive item, and obviously takes a lot of power when fully configured, but I can probably run it in the workshop as I have a 100A feed.<br><br>I'm just wondering though, do these machines take Solaris 10/11 fairly easily - or do you need special setup / keys / etc to get the systems running?<br><br>I've used systems up to the V880 era, but nothing more recent than that.<br><br>- Ian<hr>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>