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Sunfire 280r and Hard Drive support?

807557Aug 27 2009 — edited Sep 5 2009
We've got 8 or 10 racks of 280R servers. We've been trying to find disk drives for them, but most of the drives listed on the components list are end of lifed and I am having trouble even finding anything new (we strongly prefer not to use refurb or used disk drives).
I bought some Seagate ST373307FC drives from CDW, which is the drive we use, and listed here as compatible with both or 280R and 6120s:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/validateUser.do?target=Devices/Disk/DISK_Sgte_ST373307FC
When I use the drives in the 280R, the EEPROM's probe-scsi-all does detect the drive without a problem:
1 1 0 21000011c6bead7f SEAGATE ST373307FC 0006
but when I boot into Solaris, and issue the devfsadm and format commands, it says invalid format and drive type unknown:
Searching for disks...
Aug 21 17:01:21 nothing scsi: WARNING: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000011c6bead7f,0 (ssd70): Aug 21 17:01:21 nothing offline
1. c1t1d0 <drive type unknown> /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000011c6bead7f,0

Any hope for us to use these drives? Or does sun have a special firmware it flashes teh drives with to keep us buying "pure" sun hardware? I never had this problem with my Ultra1/Ultra2/e6500/e4500/T2000/x2200's before. The drives don't work in the 6120's we have either. The light is green on the drives, but the 6120 mgmt software says the drives a faulted and won't let the join.

Thanks
Paul C.

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Dude!
Answer
VirtualBox can run VMs created by VMware Workstation or Server.

RHEL/CentOS/OEL:
# sudo yum install qemu

Ubuntu, Debian:
# sudo apt-get install qemu

1. Convert a VMWare Image to VirtualBox Image:
# qemu-img convert vmware.vmdk /tmp/vbox.bin

2. Use VBoxManage to convert image:
# VBoxManage convertdd /tmp/vbox.bin vbox.vdi

- Start Virtual Box
- Goto File > Virtual Disk Manager
- Click Add.  Locate and select the copied .vmdk file. Click OK.
- Create a New VM as usual using the added vmdk file
- Boot the VM


To convert virtualbox image in to vmware image you can use following:

1. Convert .vdi file in to .raw file
# VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw vbox.vdi vbox.raw

2. Convert .raw file into .vmdk
# qemu-img convert -O vmdk vbox.raw test.vmdk
Marked as Answer by 732975 · Sep 27 2020
732975
Genius! Thank you Markus!
I've used VMware fusion (which is for mac, as you know it), but will that make any difference from the ones
created by VMware Workstation or Server ?

Edited by: user1175367 on Jul 28, 2010 3:49 PM
732975
comments as above.
Dude!
I do not use WMware Fusion on my Macbook Pro anymore since I needed Firewire support and therefore use rEFlt with native triple boot now.

Q.app, which is Qemu for MacOSX. It can be found here:
http://www.kju-app.org/

Qemu supports the following formats: qcow2 vvfat vpc bochs dmg cloop vmdk qcow host_device raw
# qemu-img.exe convert -O vmdk hdd.vdi hdd.vmdk

VMware provides a tool called VMware Converter. VMware Converter eases interoperability among VMware hosted products (Workstation, VMware Server, VMware Player, and Fusion), VirtualCenter-managed ESX Server 3.x and 2.5.x, and unmanaged ESX Server 3.x.

http://www.vmware.com/support/converter/doc/releasenotes_conv302.html

It's for Windows platform only, but below can be used to convert a Windows system running inside Virtualbox to WMware fusion on Mac.
http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windows_to_mac.html
732975
thank you
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