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Sun Blade Chassis Options

Product Key Benefits Key Applications
  • Maximum flexibility: Solaris, Linux, Windows and VMware running on SPARC, Intel and AMD processors.
  • Up to 27% more energy savings.
  • Hot-swap front accessible modules simplify installation and maintenance with increased uptime.
  • Virtualization & Consolidation
  • Enterprise IT & Web infrastructures
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Maximum flexibility: Solaris, Linux, Windows and VMware running on SPARC, Intel and AMD processors.
  • Supports up to 48 modules, up to 1152 processing cores, in a unibody chassis.
  • The compute foundation of the Sun Constellation System with up to 12 TFLOPS of peak performance per rack.
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Highly efficient Cooling Doors remove heat right at the source with a choice of cooling technologies: water cooled or refrigerant.
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)

Sun UltraSPARC Blade Server Modules

Product Key Benefits Key Applications
  • Web infrastructure
  • Back-office applications
  • One UltraSPARC T2 processor.
  • Up to 8-core and 64 simultaneous execution threads per blade.
  • Flash Solid State Drives (SSDs).
  • Virtualization & Consolidation
  • Web Infrastructure
  • Back Office (CRM, ERP, DIDW)

Sun Intel Xeon Blade Server Modules

Product Key Benefits Key Applications
  • HPC
  • Compute clusters
  • Enterprise applications
  • One or two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series processors.
  • High bandwidth.
  • 18 DIMM slots supporting up to 144 GB of memory.
  • Up to 4 hot swap HDDs or SSDs.
  • Enterprise applications
  • Virtualization
  • Consolidation
  • Two or four, 2, 4, 6-core Intel Xeon 7000 series Processors.
  • 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 192GB of memory.
  • 50% more memory capacity than competing 4-socket blade servers: excels at virtualization and memory intensive applications.
  • Solid State Disk (SSD) option.
  • Web server
  • Databases
  • Virtualization
  • One or Two, dual- or quad-core Intel Xeon 5000 Series Processors.
  • 16 DIMM slots.
  • Over 1 TB of storage.
  • Up to 4 Flash Solid State Drives (SSDs).
  • Virtualization
  • HPC
  • Web infrastructure

Sun AMD Opteron Blade Server Modules

Product Key Benefits Key Applications
  • Four Six-Core AMD Opteron processors.
  • 12 TFLOPS of peak performance per rack.
  • Up to 142 Gb/s of blazing fast I/O.
  • Up to 256 GB of memory.
  • HPC
  • Compute Clusters
  • Two Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors.
  • Up to 142 Gb/s of blazing fast I/O.
  • Up to 128 GB of memory.
  • Over 1 TB of storage.
  • Up to 4 Flash Solid State Drives (SSDs).
  • Web server
  • Databases
  • Virtualization

Sun Blade Disk Modules

Product Key Benefits Key Applications
  • Fast and easy way to add local storage capacity to a Sun Blade 6000 system, offering unsurpassed blade storage scalability.
  • Supplies up to 2.4 TB of on-blade storage, supporting datacenter consolidation.
  • Databases for Web applications
  • Rich media file storage
  • Blade server boot disk

Sun Blade Networking Products

Most recent Network Express Modules

Product Key Benefits Key Applications
  • Virtualized 10 GbE I/O to the network and between Sun Blade modules.
  • 10:1 reduction in cabling to simplify cable management.
  • Zero management with network transparency.
  • Web and application servers
  • Databases
  • Virtualization
  • Grid computing
  • Network/IT services
  • The industry’s only chassis-integrated leaf switch.
  • Unparalleled scalability and throughput while easing management for the InfiniBand networks.
  • 6:1 reduction in cabling to simplify cable management.
  • High-Performance Compute clusters
  • Clustered databases
  • InfiniBand (IB) grid architectures
  • Storage solutions