[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hardware to run OpenIndiana ...

[Everaldo Bernardo Cunha]

What hardware do I need to run OpenIndiana 2017.10? How much RAM and
processor speed is needed?


Everaldo

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi

Best is at least 1.5gb ram and a newer but not the newest processor.
The Problem is less that a maschine needs power to run OpenIndiana but
that we can not keep up with the latest drivers. I would go for an last
gen hardware.

I have it running on a HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 and I know that
Gen8 works well too.

Hope this helps
Till

Post by Everaldo Bernardo Cunha
What hardware do I need to run OpenIndiana 2017.10? How much RAM and
processor speed is needed?
Everaldo
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[Michael Kruger]

Post by Till Wegmüller
I have it running on a HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 and I know that
Gen8 works well too.

Really? I would think Gen 10 would be UEFI?
Does Hipster now support UEFI?

Michael

[Till Wegmüller]

Post by Michael Kruger

Post by Till Wegmüller
I have it running on a HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 and I know that
Gen8 works well too.

Really? I would think Gen 10 would be UEFI?
Does Hipster now support UEFI?

No but UEFI can still boot legacy MBR for one or two generations.

Greetings
Till

[Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss]

I'd like to suggest looking for a used HP Z400 on eBay. They're Solaris certified. I picked up 3 for $100 each with 6 GB of DRAM, quad core 2.9 GHz Xeon and 160 GB disk earlier this year. I already had one I'd bought a few years ago. I needed one, but got the others for spares. The build quality is excellent. Runs Hipster 2017.10 just fine.

After a ridiculous amount of work I've finally gotten Windows 7 and Debian working as guests under VirtualBox. Performance on Windows is not quite adequate for running SDRuno with my SDRplay RSP2 (audio stutters) but otherwise is fine with 8 GB of DRAM. I installed a 3 in 2 iStar trayless disk enclosure and am running three 2 TB disks (s0 = 100 GB, s1=rest) using a 3 way mirrored rpool in s0 and a RAIDZ1 pool in s1. I mostly use the RSP2 for spectrum analysis, so not a big deal. And I still have not tried to optimize performance. Too much to do.

Have Fun!
Reg

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Date: Wednesday, December 27, 2017, 5:34 PM

What hardware do I need to run OpenIndiana
2017.10? How much RAM and
processor speed is needed?


Everaldo


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[Andreas Wacknitz]

Post by Everaldo Bernardo Cunha
What hardware do I need to run OpenIndiana 2017.10? How much RAM and
processor speed is needed?
Everaldo
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Another option is a HP Z420 (Xeon Sandy Bridge generation). They are
afforable nowadays on eBay.
I recommend to use a NVIDIA based graphics card. For an HP workstation
that should be a at least Quadro 600 or K600.
I have used OpenIndiana on my Z420 (with E5-1620V2) with a Quadro K2000
until recently.
The amount of needed RAM and processor speeds depends on what you want
to do with your computer. For any illumos based distro the lack of
drivers is a bigger problem especially if you
want to use it as a desktop computer.

Regards
Andreas

[Tim Mooney]

Post by Everaldo Bernardo Cunha
What hardware do I need to run OpenIndiana 2017.10? How much RAM and
processor speed is needed?

You've already received a number of good suggestions, but keep in
mind there is a community-maintained hardware compatibility list (HCL)
in the wiki:

https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Community+HCL

Tim