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by **Roland Main** » Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:50:29

Hi!

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How long will the E4000 series be supported by Solaris (just
approximately) ?

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bye,
Roland

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by **Meik Langwal** » Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:46:00

Hi,

> How long will the E4000 series be supported by Solaris (just
> approximately) ?

Even if the Enterprise 4000 dropped out of Sun's hardware support (EOSL)
recently, there's still a pretty good chance for those systems to stay
supported in Solaris 10 (and even Solaris 11).

The last hardware, which was removed from Solaris 9 in the 9/04 update
was the sun4d platform (really outdated) and 10MBit quad ethernet
hardware (qe and qec). Even older machines with sun4m archiceture
(SPARCstation 20 for example) are still suppored. They are just listed,
that support may be removed in a future release.

http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6356-10/eos.html

The Solaris 10 docs usually talk about "Enterprise 3x00/4x00/5x00/6x00"
systems, so they will very probably rip off support for both Enterprise
lines together. And that seems to be far, far, away into the future.

Just have a look at the Solaris release notes, removals will be
announced there (see sun4m).

regards
Meik

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by **Dragan Cvetkovi** » Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:11:24

> Hi,

>> How long will the E4000 series be supported by Solaris (just
>> approximately) ?

> Even if the Enterprise 4000 dropped out of Sun's hardware support (EOSL)
> recently, there's still a pretty good chance for those systems to stay
> supported in Solaris 10 (and even Solaris 11).

Well, if these machines contains <=200MHz CPUs, they are not supported in
Solaris 10. If their CPUs run faster :-), they are supported.

Bye, Dragan

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by **Beard** » Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:28:23

> Hi,

>> How long will the E4000 series be supported by Solaris (just
>> approximately) ?

> Even if the Enterprise 4000 dropped out of Sun's hardware support (EOSL)
> recently, there's still a pretty good chance for those systems to stay
> supported in Solaris 10 (and even Solaris 11).

You can't call it that - Its "Solaris 10+1" ;-)

Quote:> The last hardware, which was removed from Solaris 9 in the 9/04 update
> was the sun4d platform (really outdated) and 10MBit quad ethernet
> hardware (qe and qec). Even older machines with sun4m archiceture
> (SPARCstation 20 for example) are still suppored. They are just listed,
> that support may be removed in a future release.

I still got the qe and qec drivers to work after desupport,
but it took some doing...

Quote:> http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6356-10/eos.html

> The Solaris 10 docs usually talk about "Enterprise 3x00/4x00/5x00/6x00"
> systems, so they will very probably rip off support for both Enterprise
> lines together. And that seems to be far, far, away into the future.

I think it will be some time before support for E10K withers
(unless all the old Cray guys get booted out wholesale). ICBWT

by **Meik Langwal** » Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:50:15

>>> How long will the E4000 series be supported by Solaris (just
>>> approximately) ?

>> Even if the Enterprise 4000 dropped out of Sun's hardware support
>> (EOSL) recently, there's still a pretty good chance for those systems
>> to stay supported in Solaris 10 (and even Solaris 11).

> You can't call it that - Its "Solaris 10+1" ;-)

I think, everybody knows what I meant with Solaris 11. ;-)

Wasn't there official order not to talk about Solaris 10, but use terms
like "the next version of Solaris", Solaris.Next or something similar?
I'm really curious, what alternatives to Solaris 10 the internal product
marketing had in mind, expecially after the name change of ZFS into DFS.
:-)

Quote:>> The last hardware, which was removed from Solaris 9 in the 9/04 update
>> was the sun4d platform (really outdated) and 10MBit quad ethernet
>> hardware (qe and qec). Even older machines with sun4m archiceture
>> (SPARCstation 20 for example) are still suppored. They are just
>> listed, that support may be removed in a future release.

> I still got the qe and qec drivers to work after desupport, but it took
> some doing...

Yes, that should be possible. I just didn't mention it, because I had to
leave home and go to work. :-)

regards
Meik

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by **Beard** » Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:29:19

>>>>> How long will the E4000 series be supported by Solaris (just
>>>>> approximately) ?

>>>> Even if the Enterprise 4000 dropped out of Sun's hardware support
>>>> (EOSL) recently, there's still a pretty good chance for those
>>>> systems to stay supported in Solaris 10 (and even Solaris 11).

>>> You can't call it that - Its "Solaris 10+1" ;-)

>> I think, everybody knows what I meant with Solaris 11. ;-)

> Ahh, sticky "1" key ;-)

>> Wasn't there official order not to talk about Solaris 10, but use
>> terms like "the next version of Solaris", Solaris.Next or something
>> similar?
>> I'm really curious, what alternatives to Solaris 10 the internal
>> product marketing had in mind, expecially after the name change of ZFS
>> into DFS. :-)

> ISTR Casper saying that Zones was renamed as "Solaris Containers" some
> while back; which I don't think has happened... ICBWT I suspect that
> Zones will stick.

s/zones/ZFS/ :-(

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