Introducing the Sun Fire V215 and
V245 Servers
This guide provides you with a starting point for getting started with the Sun Fire™
V215 and V245 servers. This guide also includes links to the resources available for
these servers, instructions for planning the installation of a Sun Fire V215 or V245
server, and information for locating the cable connections, configuring the server
and preinstalled software, and finding more information about these servers.
Servers Overview
The Sun Fire V215 and V245 servers represent follow on products of the Sun Fire
V210 and V240 servers and introduce several new features:
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UltraSPARC
IIIi CPUs
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PCI-Express I/O boards
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SAS hard drives
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Hot-swap fans
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Hot-swap power supplies
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Dynamic FRU ID
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ALOM Secure Shell and SNMP support
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The Sun Fire V215 and V245 servers can be mounted in a standard 19 inch rack, and
they ship with the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS), the Java™ Enterprise System,
and the Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) software preinstalled as a software
image on the boot drive.
These servers have the following platform names:
SUNW,Sun-Fire-V215
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SUNW,Sun-Fire-V245
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