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Finally gotten around to visiting the cage where the MoMo hardware is living. Couldn't resist snapping a few pictures, so here it is.

For the curious, here is what they are, from the top:
- Apple X-Serve
- Sun Fire 4150 x 4
- Sun Thumper (aka Sun Fire X5400) 18 Terrabytes of disk space

What's missing from the picture is the networking hardware.

It's actually been a couple of days, but I am just getting around to announcing it.

Mozilla Messaging now has it's own planet, planet.mozillamessaging.com, aggregating blog feeds from various Thunderbird sources. It's a complete ripoff copy of Planet Mozilla, just with different feed configuration.

It should get redesigned at the same time as the next incarnation of our main web site, so pay little attention to what it actually looks like, and just subscribe to the feed already.

Cheers.

P.S. If you feel like your feed (or a feed you like) should be on there, file a bug asking for it to be added

From the great c0t0d0s0 blog comes the news that Sun is working on an amazing upgrade to eLOM based systems, like the Sun X4150 we are using. Soon I'll be able to upgrade them to a real Lights-out-manager solution: iLOM.

iLOM is what's running on their Opteron-based systems, like the Sun 4500 (aka Thumper), and it's miles ahead of eLOM. Can't wait to have iLOM everywhere, instead of the current mixture of eLOM and iLOM.

Unfortunately, to perform the upgrade, you need to take the servers down... Can't have it all, I guess. Fortunately, since we are already fully redundant, it shouldn't cause visible downtime at all. All our build machines will just pause for a few seconds, and reappear on a different VM Host. Stay tuned, I'll blog about how the upgrade actually goes when it's finally available.