On Sun fire v490 - Solaris 10 with Oracle 8.1.7.4 & Sybase 12.0

Hi,
We are going to upgrade our server with this configuration -
Sun Fire V490     2 x 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC IV CPU
8096MB RAM     2 x73GB local disk
2x FC 2GB Sun/QLogic HBAs
DAT72
On one machine we will have Sun Solaris v10 with
Oracle DB v8.1.7.4 & Second one will be Sun Solaris v10 with Sybase DB v12.0.0.6.
Now our question is - Sun fire have Hyper-thread CPUs �� will the O/S and databases (Oracle and Sybase) view the proposed system as a true 4 CPU platform? Will parameters used to tune the database such as Sybase max online engines still operate in the same manner as before?
Our old machine configuration was - Sun E450     4x400MHz CPU     1024MB RAM     2 x18; 8x36GB disks

Questions on Oracle and Sybase should be directed to a database forum, this forum is for Sun hardware support.
Here is a link to a DB forum I look at from time to time:
http://www.dbforums.com/index.php
The topic of tuning Oracle or Solaris is way beyond the scope of this forum, I have attempted to go into it before but didn't get any feedback and I would only like to spend lots of time on it if I was being paid!!! On the memory side, keep in mind that Oracle 9i 64-bit can address a maximum of 2 ^ 64 ( 16777216 TB ) memory, prior to that the DBA had to define memory parameters in init.ora. To be honest the last time I worked with a Oracle 8 database I shut a HP K class server down permanently that had been migrated to Oracle 9i on Solaris by an Oracle consultant and I can't remember all the tuning trick etc.

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hello
you have an error in your interface configuration
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Message was edited by:
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Hi,
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I am a new user of sun Solaris 10 . In my sun fire v490 server every thing is configured fine there is no fault in booting .But when I configured the file /etc/inet/hosts in solaris 10 and missed to configure the file /etc/inet/netmask and /etc/inet/ipnodes, due to which server is not allow me to login there is an error occur " unable to login" . Now what is the other way to login into server console. I am entering in the console using normal mode, should I try to login in using diagnostic mode., or is there any other way to login into and modify the file. I also need training videos of solaris configuration .
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Sun Sparcstation 5 Solaris 8 Oracle 8i EE download - 817solaris.cpio.gz

Hi,
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I got issue with this UUID=a4334520-a3be-6004-b82d-b4042a6f1ade.
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FRU: -
Location: -
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FRU: -
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FRU: -
Location: -
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FRU: -
Location: -
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FRU: -
Location: -
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100% defect.sunos.fmd.module
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Affects: fmd:///module/cpumem-diagnosis
FRU: -
Location: -
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100% defect.sunos.fmd.module Removed
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Location: -
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Best.
</SQ>

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Hi,
I have a question.
We purchased a SUN FIRE 240, preinstalled with Solaris
10.
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SPARC and Solaris 2.6.
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No, you can not use Solaris 2.6 on that system.
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Solaris 8 HW 12/02
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFireV240/Sun FireV240.html
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