Sun Enterprise 10000
Starfire
Today's data centers are challenged to find highly flexible and manageable solutions to meet the quickly increasing demands, both financially and architecturally, of enterprise computing. As these external pressures to expand hardware and software services quickly increase, sites require a server solution that can grow flexibly to achieve these goals. Such a solution would generate larger revenues, improve response time and quality, expand customer services, and provide overall competitive advantages.
The SunTM EnterpriseTM 10000
Server, popularly known as
StarfireTM has been designed
specifically to meet these challenges. An innovative, high-performance
crossbar interconnect and mainframe-like partitions elevate the
Enterprise 10000 server to the pinnacle of single-server solutions for
data centers. Coupled with its advanced RAS features, proven OS
architecture, and unlimited linear scalability, the Enterprise 10000
server represents today's most manageable, flexible, single-server
solution.
Forming the foundation of the SunTM EnterpriseTM 10000 Server is Sun's revolutionary Dynamic System Domain architecture. The Enterprise 10000 server is the only UNIX® system to provide mainframe-like partitions, essential to running your data center efficiently. At the heart of Dynamic System Domain design is true system-wide scalability: processors, memory, and I/O can be expanded seamlessly and transparently, with linear increases in overall system, user, and application performance. Outstanding mainframe-like partition capabilities permit extremely flexible processor and memory configurations that improve resource management and availability.
The SunTM EnterpriseTM 10000 Server backbone is the Gigaplane-XBTM interconnect, which ensures fast, uniform, conflict-free memory access throughout the system, bringing the promise of MPP and NUMA systems' high performance, low cost, and flexible scalability to the wide range of SMP applications. Through extremely high data bandwidth with constant low latency, the Gigaplane-XB interconnect represents a technological breakthrough for data-critical requirements such as highly demanding transaction processing, data warehousing, and file serving with its support for RAID-0, RAID-1, and RAID-5 and support for more than 20 Tbytes of disk space. As your enterprise needs expand, the Gigaplane-XB interconnect offers an exceptional linear growth path in data access performance.
Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) are crucial to high-volume, high-speed, multi-user enterprise environments. Our SunTrust availability features maintain near-continuous system availability through exceptional hardware redundancy options and robust software. An extensive library of RAS features--hot swap, dynamic reconfiguration, board and component redundancy, and System Service Processor monitoring--firmly establishes SunTrust as the industry's leading RAS solution.
For large-scale and mission-critical applications--data warehousing, decision support, LAN consolidation, or high-volume OLTP -- the Sun Enterprise 10000 server delivers industry-leading performance. Plus mainframe-like reliability, exceptional scalability, and unmatched capacity for mission-critical applications. Giving you the power to make strategic decisions quickly and efficiently.
SolarisTM--the most scalable multiprocessing, multithreaded network UNIX operating environment--is tightly coupled with the Enterprise 10000 server. Solaris offers significant advances to meet today's most demanding enterprise challenges: competitive performance, integrated networking and database connectivity, and superior reliability and security. Standards allow Solaris to boast the industry's largest number of compatible programs; over 12,000 off-the-shelf SPARCTM applications can run on the Enterprise 10000 server without modification, offering your business enterprise the most innovative and flexible solution today--a significant competitive advantage.
Consistently rated among the leaders in customer satisfaction, SunServiceTM provides mission-critical support and expert management consulting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, ensuring your data center is always running.
Continuing our tradition of innovative scalable design--tightly integrated hardware and software, comprehensive RAS features, limitless scalability and flexibility, and highly competitive price/performance--the Enterprise 10000 server debuts as the vision of tomorrow's leading enterprise solution.