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Archived Sun Hardware Articles
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07 Jul 2008
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8Gb/Second High Performance Fibre Channel Switches from Brocade [19996]
Brocade 300, 5100, 5300 FC Switches
Sun announced the availability of 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel Switches from Brocade including the Entry-level Brocade 300, Mid-Enterprise Brocade 5100 and the Enterprise Brocade 5300 switches.
These switches double the throughput over Brocade's current 200E, 5000, and 4900 4Gb/sec switches.
The 32-port and 48-port 8Gb/sec blades are now qualified and available for the Brocade 48000 Director.
The new family of Brocade 8Gb/sec SAN switches include:
- Brocade 300 Entry-Level Switch, scaling from 8 up to 24 ports
- Brocade 5100 Mid-Enterprise Switch, scaling from 24 up to 40 ports
- Brocade 5300 Enterprise Switch, scaling from 48 up to 80 ports
Brocade Products from Sun
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30 Jun 2008
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Modular Approach Is Key to Datacenter Design for Sun [19731]
Savings in Power Consumption, Cooling, Real Estate
If reducing 152 datacenters to 14 and 202,000 square feet of real estate to 76,000 isn't sufficiently impressive, then consider that the design of Sun's datacenter in Santa Clara, Calif. saved US$9 million in future construction costs and delivered an 88% reduction in overall real estate costs. Rafael Ruffolo of IT World Canada reports that Sun will also realize savings of at least US$1.1 million in power costs annually while reducing power load by 60%.
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30 Jun 2008
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Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24 [20072]
Ultra Dense Design Complements Sun Blade 6048 Modular System
Sun announces the Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24 (Sun DS 3x24), an ultra-dense single rack unit InfiniBand switching platform designed to complement the Sun Blade 6048 Modular System by providing connectivity directly to the InfiniBand Switched Network Express Module with a Sun 12x-12x cable. Up to 4 Sun DS 3x24 switches can be used together supporting up to 288 blades. The Sun Blade 6048 Modular System has been designed to accommodate up to 2 Sun DS 3x24 switches with top-of-rack mounting brackets X4730A.
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30 Jun 2008
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Sun's Advanced Datacenter (Santa Clara, CA) [20168]
Hot Isle Containment and Pods Provide Efficience and Flexibility
To run Sun’s award-winning data centers, a modular design containing many "pods" was implemented to save power and time. The modular design aids the building of any sized datacenter. Inside of each pod, there are 24 racks. Each of these 24 racks has a common cooling system as does every other modular building block. The number of pods is limited by the size of the datacenters. Large and small datacenters can benefit from using the pod approach.
A virtual tour of the datacenter is available.
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12 May 2008
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PLX PCI Express Switches Support UltraSPARC T2 Plus Servers [19931]
PEX 8548 Chips Features Low Latency, Power Efficiency, Reliability
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers, powered by the Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor, are now supported by multiple PLX PEX 8548 PCIe switches for high-performance PCIe fanout and slot expansion.
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04 Feb 2008
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Sun x4 PCIe Quad Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule for Sun Blade Servers [19117]
Increased Server I/O Utilization for Network Connectivity
The new Sun x4 PCIe Quad Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule for Sun Blade Servers provides cost savings to customers through increased server I/O utilization for network connectivity and four high speed ports with a single low Profile PCI Express slot operating over existing Ethernet infrastructure.
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04 Feb 2008
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Sun Hardware Spare and Repriced Parts [19389]
Includes Parts for Sun Fire, Sun StorEdge, Sun SPARC Enterprise Systems
System administrators and support engineers working with OEMs or companies performing self maintenance on Sun systems, as well as companies that require on-site spares to support critical applications with demanding system availability and uptime requirements, will be interested in Sun's spare and repriced parts, ranging from Sun Fire, Sun StorEdge, Sun SPARC Enterprise systems to motherboards and director switches.
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04 Feb 2008
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Updated Options Offered for QLogic 9000 and 5000 Series [19394]
Hyperstacking, Fault Tolerance, and Enterprise Fabric Suite Software
The QLogic 9000 Directors and 5000 Switches now include options such as QLogic Hyperstacking license kit and QLogic Fault Tolerant License for the QLogic 9000 Directors, and QLogic Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 for both the QLogic 9000 Directors and 5000 switches. QLogic SANbox 9100 and 9200 FC Directors offer 99.999 percent availability with fault tolerant CPU failover, and the 9000 Directors scale to 256 4Gb ports through Hyperstack configuration of multiple technologies and protocols.
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04 Feb 2008
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Retirement of Select UltraSPARC III Uniboard Bundles [19395]
UltraSPARC IV+ Uniboards Suggested Replacements
Select UltraSPARC III uniboard bundles and unique x-options are being retired. The last order date is set for May 02, 2008 with the last ship date scheduled for August 01, 2008, and the end of service life designated as August 01, 2013. The UltraSPARC IV+ uniboards are the suggested replacement product as is the ROHS version part number for the select x-options.
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