Booting a Sun Fire X2200 from 2006

Going over a Sun Fire X2200 M2 from 2006. Getting it booted up and interacting with its Lights Out Management system in the browser (Internet Explorer 7!) We'll compare it to a Sun Fire V120 from 2002 along the way. This was one of the entry-level servers in the Sun Fire X lineup of x86 rack-mountable machines.
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[@tarajoe07]

This server got me started on my server management career by kicking off my homelab. I was given one in 2014

[@clabretro]

Nice! Mine was some ancient 1U unbranded Pentium machine many years ago.

[@bdhaliwal24]

The CPU cooler blocks are beautiful. Sun used to have such nice equipment, especially the early stuff.

[@bonemealmc]

Always fun to see some Sun gear!

[@RollerCoasterLineProductions]

Love your cat!!

[@badmojoe]

Also normally you can active the ID light from the ELOM, so if you are working remotely you can guide the local IT to the server in the datacenter.

[@clabretro]

yup!

[@Se7nn]

I ran a few of the v20z servers running Windows Server as Citrix Terminal Servers hosting a 3rd party warehouse software. They were fantastic machines and really showed the raw horsepower that Opteron could bring to the table. Windows was definitely a 2nd or 3rd class support level but it was enough to keep them going for years. They were ungodly loud and my boss at the time finally admitted that single pane glass for the server room window was the wrong decision (I wanted dual pane glass) when we had planned maintenance and shut them down. I can still hear them from over 20 years ago 🙉

[@JesseTheStig]

Just when I ran out of stuff to watch tonight I saw your upload from 20 seconds ago, perfect timing! haha. Love the Sun content! Keep it coming! I've wanted to pick up a couple of the sun ray units but didn't know exactly what they were used for. Looking forward to the next video!

[@clabretro]

Haha glad I got it posted in time!

[@MattK2015]

Huh when you showed the lights out manager for the sun box it kinda reminded me of hp's ilo/ilo2

[@clabretro]

Yeah exact same idea, just Sun's version.

[@jfbeam]

This was Sun's attempt to get into the lower cost systems. And using "PC" hardware made things much cheaper, WAY faster, and could run things other than Solaris. But they really want you to buy Solaris! (Both Sparc and Solaris were in decline. The v20z/v40z was their first step into the "PC" era; and those were rebadged systems from newisys. If you want some for the collection, I have plenty... they're 35lbs each.)

[@clabretro]

Oh yeah, they were definitely trying to catch up to the PC server market. You can reach out to the email in the channel about page, maybe you're close enough where shipping could work out.

[@detach8]

Let me take a pic of an X2100 which I still have... somewhere, I believe the DVD is grey

[@clabretro]

oh interesting

[@SkysTrains]

my comp-sci teacher has a 4u rackmount server. maybe ill see if i can buy it

[@tehnics-optics4560]

God for your, I have both Server v120 and x21000 M2. My first server is v120.

[@tehnics-optics4560]

Thank you very much.

[@onGlobalproductions]

Nice to see this review, I got six of these , all booting from fibre-channel san. I belive they only support sata, no sas . Really great server, also got the X4100 that has less memory but has the power supply redundancy and aslo SAS. Its smaler , and i still wondering why Sun made these 2 servers, cause the x2200 is more powerfull than the x4100, but less redunant. Got a lot of sparc machines and other stuf from sun, Running mandelbulber2 on a Sun t4-4 256 threads 😂

[@clabretro]

Ha that's awesome!

[@jfbeam]

Aimed for different markets. The 2200's were "low end" -- SATA vs. SAS, no PSU redundancy, cheaper construction, etc. While it can hold more memory, if you use all of the slots, it significantly slows memory access.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

DAMN!!!! that thing is going to suck up more power then anything !! DDR2

[@clabretro]

Yeah this baby won't be on all the time haha.

[@darkkknight74]

@clabretro just got sun oracle server x3 -2 and bought 8 drives and trays would you run Solaris or Linux on this machine? Have you done a video on these yet?

[@clabretro]

cool! haven't used one of those. I like playing around with Solaris (there are x86 versions too) but if I was using it for 24/7 homelab stuff I'd probably run Linux

[@darkkknight74]

Thank you gonna run ProxMox on it and use it as cold storage backups, any idea where to get firmware updates for it without a service contract? they are not as nice as as other manufacturers when you buy their old equipment THACKS FOR ALL YOUR CONTENT!!! @@clabretro

[@vladtomoiaga4721]

Nice! A quick question: at 11:16: is that a tape drive i see?

[@clabretro]

Yup! I think it's an HP Colorado 20GB drive from 1999. It came in a lot with some CD ROM drives I picked up awhile ago, haven't had a chance to test them all out.

[@ortodoxprotestant]

This is what i have to do when i logg in to my Netgear i can only use it on windows xp and it fight back whit all wrongs like java and script and this Netgear was used when we had smb1 and that is old now we use smb 2 ...brrr....any way i like that machine and i think i will try to get one. hm besode i want a IBM server and a Dell server etc..L.O.L....By the way what do they use sun servers for/ to ...thanks for another great video

[@Deralica]

I don't know if the previous user set this incorrectly or if it was default, but the gateway ip isn't even in the same subnet as it's IpAddress...

[@clabretro]

Yeah really weird, it came configured like that from the prior owner.

[@kreuner11]

Unusual, but technically would work as long as it's smart enough to figure out not to contact the gateway to contact the gateway

[@IanGSully]

I think the X2200 looks like something from 2014, not 2007. Even though it is indeed 2007

[@hafo821]

Holly molly, I do have a 6 machines like this! I have no idea what i am going to do with it..

[@astraldrifter]

give them 2 me :P

[@Kabodanki]

spinning rust is dumb wording, it's never iron in HDD, it's aluminium or even glass

[@TheAtariSan]

I am sad it's AMD Opteron and not Sun Sparc CPU... What a waste of potential to be an exotic architecture... Never knew they made 4gb stick of DDR2 in ECC format.

[@clabretro]

Agreed, the Sparc stuff is way more interesting!

[@PaweLasek]

Sun did some interesting things with Opterons as well. Officially, K8 architecture allowed only one I/O bus to be used, with remaining Sockets having only memory and cpu interconnects. Nothing however pointed that it's impossible to use the I/O bus on remaining sockets... And that's what Sun did, bringing way more I/O bandwidth than anyone else did

[@onGlobalproductions]

I even got ddr2 ecc 8gb sticks working i a Sun M5000 , They wont work in this server

[@mrq332]

build a new modern server, this is to old

[@clabretro]

heh, this server won't be on a lot. just for fun to mess around with and for historical value.