My personal Solaris boxes. Nothing really outstanding by todays standards.  I usally have three Solaris boxes running at any one time. A dual 1.2Ghz PIII with 4G of memory, an Asus P4P800 3.4Ghz P4 1G memory and a Ultra2 dual cpu dual 333mhz with about 768Meg of memory.  I have two other alternative Solaris x86 boxes that have mulitple system on them.  A Sony GRX690 laptop with a Hitache 7200rpm drive and a AMSelectronics Ecube which is a shuttle box design 3Ghz P4.  Here is a series of pictures of the internal guts of the Ecube. http://www.fiver.net/pictures/ecube2 The Ecube is a shuttle box design.  I multboot it with Solaris 10 x86, Windows XP, Linux and FreeBSD. I also have another backup laptop 650mhz PII running all four OS’s and a old Sony desktop P4 running XP. For load generation I have a couple of extra UltraSparc I’s and a dual 1.8Ghz Athlon running Solaris 10.  A few of the machines are on a 1G copper ethernet the rest on 100mbit along with wireless.   One of these days I have to upgrade to a nice new dual Opteron but these boxes have been keeping me busy as it is. All of them are Solaris 10 with the exception of an old K9 running Solaris 9.  I haven’t had the need nor reason to use Solaris 9 or old Solaris operating systems.  I usally run the latest Apache 2 webserver with the worker thread model and Solaris NCA turned on but regularly switch between the old dual PIII and the Asus machine.  Recently I plugged in a 16x DVD Pioneer drive in the Ecube box and played around with that building DVD’s on both x86 and XP.

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