Find out more about Oracle's Sun Fire X4800 server architecture in a white paper that details the Intel Xeon 7500 technology and the inner-workings of the X4800, along with its systems management and operating systems choice.

The Sun Fire X4800 is a new high-end x86 enterprise system, providing up to 8 sockets of Intel Xeon Processor 7500 series CPUs, huge memory, hot-plug PCI-Express gen 2 IO options, including access to up to 8 x 1GbE and 8 x 10GbE NICs and compute scalability up to 64 cores (128 threads with Intel Hyperthreading enabled).

A summary of this server's features:

• 4 or 8 Socket configurations of Intel Xeon 7500 series CPU's

• Up to 1TByte of in-system memory using today's 8GB DIMMs

• 1 new 5RU form factory chassis accommodating pluggable modules: 4 x CPU Modules (CMODs), incorporating 2 x CPU sockets and 32 DIMM slots; 8 x PCI-Express ExpressModule (EM) Hot-pluggable/swappable expansion modules; 4 x PSU modules; 4 x Fan modules; Hot-Pluggable Service processor (Oracle ILOM) Module

• 8 x 2.5" SAS Disk Drives (Hot-plug/swap with appropriate software/hardware RAID configuration)

The Sun Fire X4800 server provides an integrated ILOM service processor. Powered by an ASPEED AST2100 integrated communications processor, the service processor runs independent of the host platform, executing a robust, security-hardened operating system.

Capabilities of the ILOM service processor include the following:

• Full local and remote keyboard, video, mouse, and storage (RKVMS) access via redirection over IP, eliminating the need for KVM switches
• Monitoring and reporting of environmental, power, hardware, BIOS, and operating system events
• Remote power control, diagnostics, media attachment, and upgrades of the system BIOS and service processor software
• System configuration information retrieval
• User-configurable serial console access through a physical port or redirected through the management network
• Java technology-enabled remote console access across a secure Web connection
• Multi-level role based access with support for RADIUS, LDAP, LDAP/SSL, and Microsoft Active Directory Service lookup of authentication data
• User SSH key authentication and predefined root and user accounts
• Ability to disable the network management port, as well as individual services, such as IPMI, SSH, and KVMS
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) V1, V2c, and V3 support

In regards to operating systems support, the Sun Fire X4800 server is compatible with:

• Oracle Solaris 10 10/09
• Oracle VM 2.2 E1
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4
• SUSE Linux 11 Professional, 64-bit
• Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Standard/Enterprise/Data Center Edition (64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 Standard/Enterprise/Data Center Edition (64-bit)

The 31-page white paper provides specifics on all of the above noted features and more on the specific aspects of the Sun Fire X4800 that makes it ideal for for back-end workloads, such as in-memory databases, data warehouses, consolidation projects, and enterprise high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

More Information

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