Sun Fire 6800 (more details)

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For data warehousing, data mining, server consolidation, and other mission-critical data center applications, the UltraSPARC III technology-based Sun Fire[tm] 6800 server is a powerful, highly available solution. Featuring the redundantly configurable Sun Fireplane Interconnect, this server delivers impressive total system performance. Full hardware redundancy and a variety of advanced mainframe-class availability features, such as Hot CPU Upgrades* and Dynamic Reconfiguration*, provide maximum uptime. With Solaris Resource Manager[tm] and Dynamic System Domains*, this system has the flexibility to accommodate changing resource requirements where continuous uptime and availability are key.

*These features will be available late in 2001.

Highlights

• Key Applications:
  Mission-critical data center applications, databases, data warehousing, data mining, server consolidation, compute services, decision support applications, and High Performance Computing (HPC).
  
  
• Key Specifications:
  From two to 24 UltraSPARC[tm] III processors, up to 192 GB of memory, 32 PCI cards, and one to four System Domains. The system offers mainframe-class availability features, including full hardware redundancy, concurrent maintenance, online upgrades and Hot CPU Upgrades. Additionally, this system offers mainframe-class resource management with fully fault isolated, Dynamic System Domains. The high performance system interconnect, the Sun[tm] Fireplane Interconnect, delivers aggregate bandwidth of 67.2 GB/sec. and sustained bandwidth and 9.6 GB/sec. The system is housed in its own standard-width (24-inch) data center cabinet.
  
  
• Key Benefits:
  Highly available data center powerhouse for mission-critical applications.
  
  
• Key Industries:
  General purpose server suitable for all industries. Ideal for large data center environments.
  
  
• Service Portfolio
  Sun offers a comprehensive suite of consulting, training, and support services for the Sun Fire 6800 server.
  
  
• Requirements
  Solaris 8 4/01 Operating Environment, or later.