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Capacity on Demand

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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