Operating Environment; Key Features And Benefits - Sun Microsystems Fire E2900 Manual

Operating Environment

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Rack-optimized
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Designed to integrate with external arrays, SAN or NAS
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Compact size
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Many features for higher levels of availability and ease of management, hot swap power supplies,
disks and PCI slots, smart fans and Lights Out Management (LOM)

Key Features and Benefits

Features
Up to twelve 1.05, 1.2GHz, or 1.35GHz
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UltraSPARC IV processors, each with 16 MB
external (L2) cache
Up to 96 GB memory
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Integrated Ultra3 SCSI storage subsystem
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Integrated two 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
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(copper), SCSI disk controller and serial ports
Multipathing to storage and networks, optional
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Sun Fireplane Interconnect operating at 9.6
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GB/sec.
February 2005
Benefits
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UltraSPARC IV technology offers twice the
performance capability compared to previous
UltraSPARC III processors
High throughput and low response times may
be achieved by keeping data in memory.
Provides capacity for boot disk (which could be
mirrored with software) and extended with
external disk arrays.
Reduces the cost of the most commonly
required I/O interfaces and optimizes the use of
PCI slots. Well suited to a high performance
network environment.
Higher availability to data and networks as well
as possibly higher bandwidth/throughput.
Fewer disruptions for users means more
effective processing as well as ability to
participate in a data center environment at a
lower cost.
High bandwidth interconnect insures scalability
with minimal contention and latency between
processing and I/O subsystems
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