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Morning,
I'm looking for justification for keeping my SunBlade desktop instead
of only having a Windows PC to do my administration work from.

I currently have a Windows laptop that I use with a docking station at
work and carry with me for on-call activities. I also have a SunBlade
1000 on my desk which I use for day-to-day activities and to run
overnight and long jobs that I can't run on the laptop because I take
it home at night.

Unless I can come up with some good justifictions, my company is
wanting to take away my Solaris desktop and have me only use my
laptop. I'd rather just keep my Sun Blade and turn in my laptop.

My company runs Citrix, so accessing the company Windows environment
on my SunBlade is easy. I'm not missing a thing without the laptop.

Any input from other Sysadmins for justification for keeping my
SunBlade?

[email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:

> Any input from other Sysadmins for justification for keeping my
> SunBlade?

Can you install something like Cygwin on your Windows system? Or
VNC on both Windows and Unix servers? if so, you can easily login
with X/VNC from Windows to Unix. If you just need to be able to
run long running tasks on a text terminal, you might want to have
a look at screen.

BR,

Alexander Skwar

On 2007-08-13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Any input from other Sysadmins for justification for keeping my
> SunBlade?

Do you have any other test environments? I find having a Blade 2000 enormously
useful when I want to test something, possibly fatal, to the box. You can't do
that unless you've got physical access.


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[email protected] wrote:
> Morning,
> I'm looking for justification for keeping my SunBlade desktop instead
> of only having a Windows PC to do my administration work from.
>
> I currently have a Windows laptop that I use with a docking station at
> work and carry with me for on-call activities. I also have a SunBlade
> 1000 on my desk which I use for day-to-day activities and to run
> overnight and long jobs that I can't run on the laptop because I take
> it home at night.
>
> Unless I can come up with some good justifictions, my company is
> wanting to take away my Solaris desktop and have me only use my
> laptop. I'd rather just keep my Sun Blade and turn in my laptop.

Screen size, and keyboard size are two i can think of. Even if you add
an external monitor to a laptop, the resolution will be lower than the
blade I expect.

You might find something on the web about health issues with small
keyboards.

Reliability of disks - MTBF of a SCSI disk would (I suspect, see
manufacturers web sites), be greater than a laptop, especially given the
environment is harsher for a laptop.

You can keep confidential data on the machine at the fixed secure
location, rather than a laptop, which have a habit of being stolen.

You don't say what hardware you administer, but if it it SPARC, it would
be useful to run a SPARC binary on a test machine without risking
upsetting the company network.

Does the Blade have Gbit ethernet - does the laptop?

I suspect other might think of other justifications.

Does the blade have 2 CPUs? Code sometimes behaves differently on 2 CPUs.