Sun has made sys admin resources available for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers. These servers (1U and 2U), both dual socket, use Sun’s UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors with CoolThread Technology integrated. CoolThreads can be quite useful while looking for:

• Faster throughput.
• Greater energy efficiency.
• Zero cost virtualization technology.
• A Hypervisor offered as open source under the GPL license.
• Flexibility (128 virtual systems on a single server).
• Enabling of over 5,120 isolated domains per rack.
• 8x the web scale performance.

More Information

• BigAdmin System Administration Portal

• An overview of CoolThreads technology (with 360-degree tour)

• T5140 detailed product page

• T5240 detailed product page

Documentation

• Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers Administration Guide

• Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager 2.0 Supplement

• Cool Tools on the CMT Tuning and Resources web page [...read more...]
  
  
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  • BigAdmin
  • CMT
  • CoolThreads
  • open source
  • SPARC
  • SPARC Enterprise
  • sparc enterprise
  • SPARC Enterprise T5140
  • T5140
  • T5240
  • ultrasparc
  • UltraSPARC T2
  • UltraSPARC T2+

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