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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Customers seeking a business edge can look to Sun to provide smarter options for building a simple, secure, standardized IT infra-
structure. The Sun Fire x64 family of servers are smart solution enablers for standardizing the datacenter -- a high-performance set of
servers that offer the unity of vertical scaling with the economies of horizontal scaling, while running any major OS and 32-bit/64-bit
application. Sun continues its efforts to provide customers with solutions to help them realize the benefits of a horizontal infrastruc-
ture (lower incremental CPU cost, OS flexibility) while reducing the hidden costs and complexities.
Sun Fire X4100 M2 (1RU) and Sun Fire X4200 M2 (2RU) were the two initial members of the Sun Fire x64 family, a new line of servers
designed to improve the economics of x64 systems while setting new standards for performance, reliability, and energy efficiency by
reducing cost and complexity while delivering Sun's rock-solid enterprise-class capabilities and quality. Both are high-performance,
single- or dual-socket platforms with single- or dual-core processors in a 1RU or 2RU package. Both use the same hot-swappable
power supplies, hot-swappable hard disk drives, CPUs, memory, and Service Processor. The use of common components across the
entire server line requires fewer spare parts on hand, lowering operational costs. Table 1-1 shows the maximum configurations sup-
ported by each server.
Table 1-1: Sun Fire X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 Maximum Configurations
Sun Fire X4100 M2 Sun Fire X4200 M2
# of sockets supported 2
# of memory slots 8 DIMMS (4 slots per socket)
Maximum memory 32 GB using 4 GB DIMMS
# of hard disks supported 2 disks + DVD OR
4 disks with no DVD
4 disks + DVD
# of Expansion slots 2 PCI-E 4 PCI-E + 1 PCI-X
Sun Fire X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 servers feature redundant, hot-swappable fan modules and redundant, hot-pluggable AC power
supplies to enable increased availibility and simplified serviceability. Both systems support a consistent I/O feature set that includes
four (4) 10/100/1000BaseT Gigabit Ethernet ports, a four-channel SAS RAID 0/1 disk controller with integrated mirroring, video, USB
ports (Sun Fire X4100 M2: one front, two rear and Sun Fire X4200 M2: two front, two rear), and a dedicated serial and 10/100BaseT
Ethernet remote management port. For further expansion, the Sun Fire X4100 M2 provides two (2) low-profile PCI-Express slots and
the Sun Fire X4200 M2 provides four (4) low-profile PCI-Express slots and one (1) PCI-X slot for high-performance application I/O. Sin-
gle- and dual-core AMD Opteron CPUs are supported to provide a flexible, high-performance growth path and investment protection
32-bit applications are protected while still enabling seamless migration to 64-bit applications.
The Sun Fire x64 server family also includes an extensive set of RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) features which reduce
hidden serviceability costs by dramatically simplifying system maintenance. In addition, the Sun Fire x64 family of servers provides
remote lights out server management, including remote keyboard, video, mouse, and storage (RKVMS); remote boot; and remote
software upgrades using the Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Service Processor.
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