Opensolaris

I purchased a quad-core Acer M5641 to run Solaris, Rocks, and other OSes on. I could never bring up Solaris, I decided to try another machine. I had an old Dell and Solaris came up right away, but since it was old, everything was slow. So I looked around the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and couldn't afford any of them. I asked the compatibility question of one os the Solaris email list and people recommended an entry level Dell server. By the time I had decided to purchase the Dell I wanted, it had been discontinued, so I settled on a Dell Poweredge T105. I had been warned that the network interface might be a problem. After several unsuccessful attempts, I went into the BIOS and disabled the network interface. Once I had Solaris installed, I looked around for a NIC. I had an unused card, installed it, and the network came up.

The T105 came with two internal drives. I had initially thought about mirroring the root disk, probably using dd, since they were identical. Instead I set it up as a separate partition using a ZFS filesystem on it. With that I was able to setup a snapshots on the filesystem. I'd like to set up dedupe on it as well, just to get an idea of how well it works.