Overview Of The Sun Fire V20Z Server; Applications - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V20z User Manual

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Overview of the Sun Fire V20z Server

The Sun Fire V20z is an AMD Opteron™ processor-based enterprise-class 1U 2P
server. The Sun Fire V20z provides performance and value to an enterprise
environment, offering significantly better performance than current 32-bit
Intel-based solutions. The balanced server design maximizes overall performance
through industry-leading I/O options, and delivers compelling real-world workload
performance.
The Sun Fire V20z server includes an embedded service processor (SP), flash
memory, RAM, a separate Ethernet interface and server-management software. It
comes equipped with superior server-management tools for greater control and
minimum total cost of ownership. You can use the command line interface or SNMP
integration with third-party frameworks to configure and manage the platform with
the SP. The dedicated SP provides complete operating-system independence and
maximum availability of server management.
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Applications

The Sun Fire V20z server is ideal for the following applications:
Web or application hosting
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High performance compute clusters
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Offsite/remote server installations
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Database workloads
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Corporate data centers
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1-2 Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers User Guide • December 2004