System Overview; Sun Fire V445 Server Overview - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Manual

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C H A P T E R

System Overview

This chapter introduces you to the Sun Fire V445 server and describes its features.
The following sections are included:
"Sun Fire V445 Server Overview" on page 1
"New Features" on page 7
"Locating Front Panel Features" on page 9
"Locating Back Panel Features" on page 16
"Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) Features" on page 22
"Sun Cluster Software" on page 22
"Sun Management Center Software" on page 23
Note – This document does not provide instructions for installing or removing
hardware components. For instructions on preparing the system for servicing and
procedures to install and remove the server components described in this document,
refer to the Sun Fire V445 Server Service Manual.

Sun Fire V445 Server Overview

The Sun Fire V445 server is a high-performance, shared memory, symmetric
multiprocessing server that supports up to four UltraSPARC® IIIi processors and
uses the Fire ASIC PCIe NorthBridge along with PCI-X and PCIe expansion slots.
The UltraSPARC IIIi processor has a 1 Mbyte L2 cache and implements the SPARC®
V9 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and the Visual Instruction Set extensions (Sun
VIS software) that accelerate multimedia, networking, encryption, and Java™
software processing. The Fire ASIC provides higher I/O performance and interfaces
with the I/O subsystem, which contains 4 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet ports, 8 SAS
disk drives, 1 DVD-RW drive, 4 USB ports, a POSIX compliant DB-9 serial port, and
service processor communication ports. The PCI expansion subsystem is
configurable with a variety of plug-in third party adapters.
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