Sun fire x4100 m2, x4200 m2 server customer presentation

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Sun's x64 Systems: Sun FireTM X4100 M2 &X4200 M2 Servers

Name, TitleSun Microsystems, Inc.

A presentation for IT operations professionals

Version – May 2008

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Sun Fire X4100 M2 Server1 Rack Unit, 2 Socket Enterprise, high-performance scalable system

–Network services, compute services, application server, database, security, development, financial, oil/gas, bio sci, EDA, MCAE

Compute Up to 2 Quad or Dual-core AMD Opteron

(2000 series) Processors 8x DDR2-667 DIMM slots (4 per socket)

I/O 2x PCI-E slots 4x Gigabit Ethernet ports 2x SAS 2.5” disk drives with DVD/CD-RW

or 4-HDD no DVD option

High Availability Redundant hot-swap Power supplies and

Fans, hot-swap disk drives Hardware RAID 0 & 1

Management IPMI 2.0; remote KVM, floppy/CDROM with

dedicated 10/100 Ethernet port Solaris, Linux, Windows, or VMware

operating systems

Warranty 3 year, Next Business Day


Sun Fire X4200 M2 ServerThe Enterprise Workhorse

–2 Socket, 2 Rack Unit Building block for network services, infrastructure services, application servers, compute services, databases, security

Compute Up to 2 Quad or Dual-core AMD Opteron

(2000 series) Processors 8x DDR2-667 DIMM slots (4 per socket)

I/O 4x PCI-E slots 1x PCI-X slots 4x Gigabit Ethernet ports 4x SAS 2.5” disk drives w/ DVD/CD-RW

High Availability Redundant hot-swap Power supplies and Fans,

hot-swap Disk Drives Hardware RAID 0 & 1

Management IPMI 2.0; remote KVM, floppy/CDROM with

dedicated 10/100 Ethernet port Solaris, Linux, Windows, or VMware operating

systems

Warranty 3 year, Next Business Day


What's New:AMD Opteron Quad-Core

• Supported via X-options and ATO configurations• AMD Opteron Model 2356 2.3GHz, 2MB, L3• X-option Part Number: X4629A-Z

> includes CPU and pre-greased heat sink> requires BIOS update

> http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/downloads.jsp

• ATO Part Number: 4629A-Z> configurable via normal WebDesk process


Sun Fire X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 Server

• Enterprise focus> Fastest 1- to 8-way x64 Servers in the Industry> Design features: streamlining RAS for the x64 space> Superior power/cooling advantage over Intel-based

systems> Simplified remote management with no extra costs

• Sun Fire X4100 M2: Sun is the Only Tier-1 Server vendor with a fully redundant 1RU Enterprise x64 server

• Binary compatibility and common architecture across product line

• Runs virtually any operating system with the option of Solaris OS, Linux, Windows or VMware

Benefits


• Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) delivers state-of-the-art remote management

• N1System Manager monitors system status and allows remote automation

• Intelligent Lighting for fault identification and minimized diagnostic errors

System Management

SUN CONFIDENTIAL: Internal & Sun iForce Channel Partners


Why Choose AMD?World Class Performance

• Leading performing Quad-Core and High Efficiency Dual Core AMD Opteron processors

• Fastest AMD processors• Hardware assisted virtualization through AMD Virtualization• Less bottlenecks, more efficient with AMD's Direct Connect

Architecture• Seamless upgradeability from Dual Core to Quad Core• Runs Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware operating

systems to match your application needs


Why Choose AMD?Unparalleled Energy Efficiency

• Energy efficient design to save on power and cooling costs• Optimal flow design with front to back cooling• AMD PowerNow! optimizes power consumption and heat

dissipation• Improve performance and power management utilizing AMD's

Dual Dynamic Power Management• Enhance energy efficiency with AMD CoolCore Technology


Customer SuccessesSun Fire X4100

• “ Sun helps us deliver a scalable, reliable service that lets us sleep at night because we know that we can rely on the stability and performance of our Sun products. ”— Matthew Leeds, Vice President of Operations, Gracenote

• “ Our aim was to deploy an IT infrastructure that would help to integrate our business processes, make information available at all levels of the company, and be sufficiently flexible to allow us to innovate. As the backbone of our SAP implementation, we deployed the high performing and scalable Sun Fire X4100 servers, along with the Sun StorageTek 3320 SCSI array from Sun Microsystems. ”— Mr. Jacob Mani, Vice President, Empee Distilleries


Customer SuccessesSun Fire X4100 (continued)

• “ Going from zero to 300,000 members in our first two years put a huge strain on our Web infrastructure. We needed to provide a great customer experience and also planned to add social networking features—and we found the Solaris 10 OS, Sun Fire X2100 and Sun Fire X4100 servers to be the perfect foundation for our future growth. The flexibility of open source technologies, along with the unmatched security, stability, ease-of management and scalability of Solaris 10 and Sun Fire x64 servers will enable us to grow our business and our community to meet the growing demand. ”— Cyril Bouteille, Chief Technology Officer, Peerflix, Inc.


Customer SuccessesSun Fire X4200

• “ I am happy with all the results: high availability, pricing and redundancy. And all my end users are quite satisfied—no down time or other platform problems. That’s the value of our relationship with Sun today. ”— Pascal Patesson, IT Director, DDB Belgium

• “ Running VMware on the Sun Fire X4200 platform has fundamentally changed our business processes for the better, and saved us a great deal of money in the process. ”— Ron Herardian, Chief Systems Architect, Global System Services Corporation


Get Quad Core

• Try & Buy> http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/rules.jsp> Try it for FREE for 60 days, then purchase for 25 – 40% off!

• Sun EvalConnection> www.sunevalconnection.com

• Go Green > http://www.sun.com/tradeins/index.jsp> Get up to 20% trade-in allowance for returned older CPUs

which will be properly recycled

http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/rules.jsp

http://www.sun.com/tradeins/index.jsp