Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt Alternative

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/13/00 10:53 AM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Brandon Wheaton wrote:
> 
>> From a hardware perspective, I think Cobalt
>> has a little something to watch out for. Sure the little blue server
>> does its job, but beyond that your options are very limited, especially
>> with no console access (keyboard, mouse, vga ports).
> 
> This must depend on what you're looking for.  Frankly, in a rackmount
> service I'm looking for a system with no keyboard, mouse, vga ports.
> When I see 1u systems with keyboard and mouse ports, vga and sound, the
> first thing that comes to mind is that they're using a cheap generic
> all-in-one motherboard.

This is what makes the Sun Netra T1 so attractive... completely headless
with two serial ports that you can use for remote management.  Just plug a
standard modem into one and you can connect to the console from remote.

RAID built-in, with two hot swap bays.  UW SCSI built in for connection to
tape device, external storage unit (Sun makes a killer rack-mounted RAID
enclosure), or whatever.

Its the perfect web server--albeit the most expensive of the ones we're
evaluating (but not by much).

-k