Latest UltraSPARC servers certified for Ubuntu
Well its official, as of the Friday before Thanksgiving, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server (pictured above) and its little brother the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server were certified by Canonical on their latest release, Ubuntu 7.10 (nee "Gutsy Gibbon").
At the time of the T5220/5120 launch last month, Gutsy had not yet been released but I gave a heads up that certification would be coming. Well its here.
These new systems, based on the T2 processors (8 cores x 8 threads = 64 threads per chip), are uber-beefed up versions of the T1000/T2000 cool-thread servers that Canonical originally certified on. To learn more about these new systems check out a collection of blogs here. And if you want to try one for free for 60 days, you can sign up here.
Pau for now...
Now that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server has been certified to run Ubuntu Linux 7.10, is it also supported on the Sun Blade T6320 server module?
Posted by Dan on February 01, 2008 at 10:01 AM CST #
Dan,
I know that the T6320 hasn't been officially certified on Ubuntu. Let me check with the blade guys to see if I can get any more info.
Posted by Barton on February 04, 2008 at 04:42 PM CST #
I'm also trying to install Linux on a T6320, so far without much luck. Did you get any more info, and are they supposed to be supported?
Posted by Mike on June 11, 2008 at 08:55 AM CDT #
Mike,
I checked and at this point we dont have plans to support the blades. At least for now, we are focusing on 1 and 2 socket systems.
Posted by Barton on June 11, 2008 at 03:59 PM CDT #