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Sun Blade 6000 Chassis

Sun Blade 6000 Chassis

Here's history in the making: Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware running on single and multi-core processors by Sun, AMD, and Intel, in one chassis. Make that one datacenter-quality, 10-blade, 10RU Sun Blade 6000 Chassis. You've never had so many choices in one blade system. Extreme I/O throughput--as in 142 Gbps--puts it in a league by itself all over again.


At A Glance

  • Up to double the memory and I/O capacity of competing blades and rackmounts
  • Shared power and cooling, save 15% more energy than equivalent rackmount servers
  • Maximum flexibility - SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems
  • Most open blade platform with industry standard PCIe ExpressModule

Key Applications

  • Virtualization & Consolidation
  • Web Infrastructure
  • High Performance Computing
  • Back Office (CRM, ERP, DIDW)


Power Calculator

Configure your Sun Blade 6000 Modular System to see just how low your power consumption can go.

Spotlight

Sun Optimized AMP Stack

Sun offers a new recipe for success - the Solaris OS + AMP (Solaris 10 OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). For customers committed to the open AMP stack, this "recipe" provides the same Web applications they know and use, but on a more secure open-source platform with greater scalability. Sun provides complete step-by-step instructions to get up and running more quickly when building and deploying Web applications. Sun offers five easy steps to quickly develop Web applications.


Sun Blade 6000 Chassis Gallery

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Virtual Tour

Have a look inside the innovative Sun Blade 6000 Modular System and explore its features and design in detail.

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Processor Advantages Compared

Sun UltraSPARC T1

  • Two sockets/eight cores/32 threads per module
  • Unmatched, multi-threaded throughput
  • Best power/cooling efficiency
  • Solaris OS scalability and compatibility
Intel Xeon
  • Two sockets/eight cores/eight threads per module
  • x64 industry standard servers
  • Fastest integer performance
  • Large cache size
  • Multiple-OS Environments
AMD Opteron
  • Two sockets/four cores/four threads per module
  • x64 industry standard servers
  • Fastest floating point performance
  • Multiple-OS environments


FREE 60 day trial

See what Sun Blade Systems can do for you. Sign up for a free 60-day trial of the Sun Blade 6000 modular system with your choice of server modules then buy at 25% off.

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