Performance Enhancements; Preinstalled Solaris Operating System - Sun Oracle Netra T5220 Installation Manual

Performance Enhancements

The Sun Netra T5220 server, with the Solaris 10 OS, provide several new
performance enhancing technologies with its sun4v architecture and multicore,
multithreaded UltraSPARC T2 processor.
Some of these enhancements are:
A dedicated floating point unit (FPU) for each core (processor thread)
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Four independent dual-channel memory controllers that use the latest fully
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buffered memory technology.
Processor-integrated cyptographic acceleration
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Large page optimization
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Reduction on TLB misses
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Optimized block copy
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Support for Sun's 10 Gigabit Ethernet with the addition of XAUI cards in PCI
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slots 0 and 1

Preinstalled Solaris Operating System

The Sun Netra T5220 server is preinstalled with the Solaris 10 OS, and offers the
following Solaris OS features:
Stability, high performance, scalability, and precision of a mature 64-bit operating
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system
Support for over 12,000 leading technical and business applications
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Solaris Containers – Isolate software applications and services using flexible,
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software-defined boundaries.
DTrace – A comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for tuning applications
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and troubleshooting systemic problems in real time.
Predictive Self-Healing – Capability that automatically diagnoses, isolates, and
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recovers from many hardware and application faults.
Security – Advanced security features designed to protect the enterprise at
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multiple levels.
Network Performance – Completely rewritten TCP/IP stack dramatically
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improves the performance and scalability of your networked services.
You can use the preinstalled Solaris 10 OS, or reinstall a supported version of the
Solaris 10 OS from your network, CD, or downloaded copy. Refer to the Sun Netra
T5220 Server Product Notes for information on the supported OS releases for your
server.
8 Sun Netra T5220 Installation Guide • November 2011