System Overview; About The Sun Fire V890 Server; Physical Enclosure - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V890 Owner's Manual

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C H A P T E R

System Overview

This chapter introduces you to the Sun Fire V890 server and describes some of its
features. The following information is covered in this chapter:
"About the Sun Fire V890 Server" on page 1
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"Locating Front Panel Features" on page 7
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"Locating Rear Panel Features" on page 9
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"About the Status and Control Panel" on page 11
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"About Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Features" on page 15
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About the Sun Fire V890 Server

The Sun Fire V890 server is a high-performance, shared memory, symmetric
multiprocessing server system that supports up to eight Sun UltraSPARC
processors. The UltraSPARC processor incorporates a chip multithreading (CMT)
design featuring two threads on each physical processor. It implements the SPARC
V9 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and the Visual Instruction Set (VIS™)
extensions that accelerate multimedia, networking, encryption, and Java™
processing.

Physical Enclosure

The system is housed in a roll-around tower enclosure, which measures 28.1 inches
high, 18.9 inches wide, and 32.9 inches deep (71.4 cm x 48.0 cm x 83.6 cm). The
system has a maximum weight of 288 lb (130.6 kg).
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