Perfect Fit.
The new Sun Fire 12K server neatly contains costs and still allows for future growth.
9.Apr.02--You're between a rock and a hard place. Your data center needs
help. You're being asked to cut costs. But you have to create a flexible,
high-powered computing environment that's ready for wherever your business
takes you. And you've got to build it--and run it--on a very tight budget.
What are you going to do?
If you're smart and you want to satisfy your current data needs without
emptying your piggy bank--but you still want to upgrade as your business
needs grow--the choice is obvious: The Sun Fire 12K server.
The Sun Fire 12K server is all about the right fit. Built with the Uniboard
and the scalable Solaris Operating Environment (OE) and the
UltraSPARC® III Cu processors that provides binary compatibility across
generations and products, the Sun Fire 12K server is ideal for workloads
that aren't big enough for the Sun Fire 15K server, but too big for the Sun
Fire 6800 server. The Sun Fire 12K server allows you to focus on your
short-term needs without having to worry about satisfying demand down the
road. It's fully upgradable to a Sun Fire 15K server on the fly--without
powering down the system--if and when you need it.
OK, enough small talk. You want to know what this machine is made of. The
Sun Fire 12K server is a massively scalable system that lets you
consolidate your servers and supports mainframe rehosting. The Solaris
Operating Environment means you can cherry-pick apps from an army of ISVs.
For technical computing and data-intensive applications, it's unequaled. The
Sun Fire 12K server supports up to nine Dynamic System Domains and up to 52
CPUs. And those are 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors, by the way. That's a
lot of horses. You want memory? How does up to 288 GB grab you?
Total cost of ownership matters. Sun's got you covered with top-to-bottom
binary compatibility. No new skills needed. You can use the same admin skill
sets and the same apps, develop and deploy on whatever Sun servers you want.
The Sun Fire 12K server gives you all the investment protection features
that distinguish the rest of the Sun Fire family, including the Uniboard
CPU/memory board and support for mixed-speed CPUs.Dynamic System Domains give you all the flexibility and repurposing you need.
Reliability, availability, and serviceability matters. You want built-in
hardware redundancy? The Sun Fire 12K server has it. Online upgrades? Hot
CPU upgrades? No problem. We'll even throw in a powerful Sun technology--the
Sun Fireplane Interconnect, which provides fast, dedicated paths between
every vital system component. The Sun Fire 12K server is fully loaded with
Automatic System Recovery and System Controller Failover. All ecache and
data paths are ECC-protected. We've also made serviceability simpler with a
common LED system on all major components that tells you when a part needs
servicing. Hey, when it comes to your company's data, surprises aren't cool.
You need maximum uptime. Sun's fifth-generation Dynamic Reconfiguration means
optimal availability, flexibility, and security. It allows critical hardware
system resources, such as CPU/memory or I/O boards to be removed from or
added to the Solaris Operating Environment and apps without outage or
stoppage. You combine that with the new Solaris 8 OE built-in, multipathing
and clustering solutions, such as Sun Cluster 3.0 software, now you're
talking uptime. The Sun Fire 12K server is all about nondisruptive
maintenance, capacity upgrades, and load balancing.
What about storage? Sun StorEdge Complete Storage Solutions are tested, certified, and tuned for easy implementation and high
performance with the
Sun Fire 12K. The Sun StorEdge 9900 series complements
the Sun Fire 12K server for data center consolidation and for tasks that
require
a scalable, continuously available storage system. And Sun is offering a
standard,
fixed-configuration Sun StorEdge 9960 storage unit with
13.1 TB of disk capacity as an option with the Sun Fire 12K server. Now
that's business-ready.
For technical computing environments, the Sun StorEdge 3900 series has
been
designed to run single or clustered high-bandwidth applications. When
combined with
the Sun StorEdge Utilization and Performance Suites, it delivers
unprecedented performance.
So what happens when your business really takes off and you find yourself
needing a whole lot more capacity pronto? Relax. You're already more than
halfway home. Sun has designed an upgrade path from the Sun Fire 12K server
to the Sun Fire 15K server with your needs in mind. You've already got the
box. Just add the Uniboard. And you can do it while the system is running.
That means no downtime, no reboots. With the Sun Upgrade Allowance Program,
you can capitalize on residual values in older Sun or competitive equipment,
whether you're upgrading from a Sun Fire 12K server or purchasing one out of
the box.
So if you're a fan of sleepless nights, fingernails bitten to the nub, and
overextending your budget, we suggest you go with one of our competitor's
offerings. They'll be glad to take your money. But if you want to sail
through a data center redesign without breaking a sweat or busting your
wallet, we'd suggest you look further into the Sun Fire 12K server.
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