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Capacity on Demand

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The Sun Fire Capacity on Demand (COD) 2.0 program provides you with the ability to acquire CPU/memory resources at reduced acquisition costs and the capability to instantly activate these on demand compute resources on a permanent or temporary basis. Unlicensed COD processors can be used as hot spares for COD or standard processors.

Products Supporting COD:

  Sun Fire 3800-6800 and Sun Fire E2900-E6900 Midrange servers
  Sun Fire 12K-15K and Sun Fire E20K-25K Highend servers
  SPARC Enterprise M4000
  SPARC Enterprise M5000
  SPARC Enterprise M8000
  SPARC Enterprise M9000

COD on Sun Fire Systems:

  T-COD Ordering
  COD Datasheet
  COD Buyer's Guide

COD on SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers:

  SPARC Enterprise Servers COD User Guide



Key Benefits
  • With COD, customers can specify additional processor/memory boards to be available on demand and pay for these resources when actually used.


  • COD CPU/memory boards can be configured into Sun Fire servers at a lower up front cost and the remainder of the CPU/memory board cost is not paid until the resources are used (by ordering COD RTU licenses).


  • COD Right To Use (RTU) licenses are ordered separately (per CPU) for use of the COD CPUs and related memory.


  • The COD system software provides the enforcement and eliminates the need for any remote reporting of system usage or monitoring.


  • T-COD allows customers to change computing capacity as resource requirements change. (T-COD not available on SPARC Enterprise M-series servers)


  • If a T-COD RTU license is purchased for six consecutive months, the customer will receive a permanent COD 2.0 RTU license. (T-COD not available on SPARC Enterprise M-series servers)

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