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Thursday March 23, 2006

Sun Fire T2000 Try and Buyers ... in Work

Sun Fire T2000 Several people are blogging about their Try and Buy experience. Here's a list of some of them:

Reading through the blogs and the forums, the biggest problem so far is having the right cables. Grkvlt points out in this thread:
You will need a serial null modem cable which connects to the RJ45 port (the port marked SER MGMT) on the sun, not the DB9 console port. The cable you need is a Cisco rollover console cable, and can be obtained from Ebay pretty cheaply, or you can make your own. if you make one, the pin-outs are available here http://hardwarebook.net/cable/serial/ciscoconsole9.html"

Newegg.com has a USB to Serial cable for $9.

Useful links:

Additional info:

» Tags: SUN, CoolThreads, T2000, Servers, Datacenter

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Published: (2006-03-23 11:46:52.0)

Comments:

Glad to see that someone is actually noticing those of us who are or are going to be blogging about the T2000. :)

Posted by Paul Smith on March 23, 2006 at 01:08 PM PST #

Oh cool thanks for the link! Look forward to reading about your experience :)

Posted by tony : frosty on March 23, 2006 at 01:14 PM PST #

Thanks for the putting my link up. :)

Posted by Paul Smith on March 23, 2006 at 03:15 PM PST #

Hi I had to pay $42 for the serial -> usb cable over here (including delivery in australia). ..
but that isn't the cable that people are trying to find is the RJ45->db9 adapter one which is the 'cisco' one I think.
I get my T2000 on monday.. I can hardly wait.
also.. the 2nd problem people are having is no one knows how to notify marketing of their blogs presence...
regards
Ian

Posted by Ian Holsman on March 23, 2006 at 03:24 PM PST #

Ah ok. Let me ask around and see what I can dig up.

Posted by tony : frosty on March 23, 2006 at 11:07 PM PST #

We have a pretty detailed description of the pin-outs and building the RJ-45 Sun serial console to RS-232C DB-9F adapter, if anyone needs it http://press.teleinteractive.net/oss/2006/04/06/building_a_sun_fire_sc_rj_45_to_rs_232c

Posted by Joseph A. di Paolantonio on April 06, 2006 at 03:39 PM PDT #

[Trackback] As we mentioned on receiving the Sun Fire T2000, one surprise was the need to use a terminal emulator to initialilly set-up the server through the system console port. Even more suprising was that it was still using a RJ-45 connector for the serial li...

Posted by Open Source Solutions on April 06, 2006 at 03:41 PM PDT #

Hello, I also try out the Try and Buy Program with my german blog http://itblog.eckenfels.net, but I also write translations on http://architect.javadevelopersjournal.com/ in english. I asked for a T1000 and will test it privately, but also some performance testing for the company. I document all of the Try and Buy process in my blogs. Gruss Bernd

Posted by Bernd Eckenfels on June 18, 2006 at 08:43 AM PDT #

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