Sun's Federal Services Chief Technologist Peter Colson has written a post entitled, "Introduction to iSCSI Booting for x86/x64 Platforms." Initially a skeptic about iSCSI booting, Colson is now a convert, having realized that the technique offers better storage utilization, economy, and easier, less risky disaster recovery.
A Sun BluePrints Online article discusses the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution, describing the architecture and performance characteristics for determining proper sizing of systems. According to the authors, the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution provides an integrated platform to deploy a highly reliable Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure that delivers simplicity, speed, and savings. Read the BluePrints piece to learn more.
The Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 is a 36-port Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand leaf switch enabling users to bind Sun Blade and Sun Fire servers and storage systems into a 36-node cluster. This multi-purpose switch can act as a self-contained fabric solution for smaller InfiniBand clusters or as a building block for hierarchical fabric topologies supporting larger clusters of Sun Blade or Sun Fire servers and storage systems.
Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x Quad Data Rate (QDR) PCIe Low Profile Host Channel Adapter (HCA) and the Sun InfiniBand Dual port 4x QDR PCI-E Express Module HCA are built using Mellanox ConnectX silicon, delivering QDR over four times than copper and optical interconnects, Sun reports. Sun's QDR InfiniBand products enable Sun to offer RDMA-based high-performance, low-latency I/O interconnect technology for its blade and rack mount server platforms.
The two-socket Sun Blade X6270 Server Module can scale compute resources without adding complexity. Leveraging new technologies from Intel such as QuickPath Interconnect, Hyper-Threading, Virtualization Technology, and Turbo Boost, this new blade server delivers intelligent performance that adapts to customers software environments. The Sun Blade X6270 server module is fully supported in both the Sun Blade 6000 and Sun Blade 6048 modular systems, and it runs the Solaris 10 OS, Linux, Windows, or VMware.
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