Oracle calls its Sun Fire X4470 M2 Server the "best virtualization server for business applications," especially as a consolidation platform for mixed workloads. The Sun Fire X4470 M2 offers a 35% lower TCO than comparable four-socket HP or IBM systems which, incidentally, it has beaten in standard industry benchmarks. The Sun Fire X4470 M2, that can be consistently and efficiently managed with Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager, delivers superior performance and lower power consumption with its integrated Sun FlashFire technology and up to 1 TB of low voltage memory. The key specifications of the Sun Fire X4470 M2 Server include:
Two or four Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 processors
Up to 64 DIMMs with a maximum memory of 1 TB
Up to six 2.5" disk drive bays for HDDs or SSDs
Up to four Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe cards
Hot-swappable disks, cooling fans, and power supply units
Optimized to run Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and Oracle VM
This server is also certified to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows Server, and VMware.
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Oracle forges ahead in the development of x86 enterprise servers, namely its forthcoming Sun Fire X4470 M2 Server, which is based on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family which also recently achieved record-breaking performance for 4-processor servers on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark. The results show up to a 39% increase in overall system performance, compared to the previous generation, which means customers should see significant gains in application-level computing capacity, allowing them to run their software more effectively in the same physical footprint, according to the Oracle press release.
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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).
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Setting a new world record result for 8-socket servers with Intel 7500 series x86 processors, Oracle's Sun Fire X4800, which was equipped with eight 2.26 GHz Intel Xeon X7560 processors, attained a result of 3369694 SPECjbb2005 bops, 421212 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on the SPECjb2005 benchmark, as reported in a BestPerf blog entry.
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With the launch of its Sun Fire x86 cluster systems, Oracle has released several architectural white papers along with multiple performance records on these latest Sun-technology driven servers. Oracle offers tightly integrated x86 clustered systems engineered across its business software and hardware systems portfolio to deliver high performing application-to-disk solutions that can be managed and supported as a single system.
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