Sun Blade 6000 Chassis

Sun Blade 6000 Chassis

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From $7,499. (US)

The revolutionary Sun Blade 6000 modular system is designed to support highly capable blades that deliver more compute, memory and I/O capacity than traditional blades and rackmount servers. This platform provides maximal performance with optimal cooling, space and power efficiency. In combination with the Sun Blade Virtualized NEM, it is ideal for consolidation and virtualizing a wide variety applications from the web to the back office on blades based on UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors.


At a Glance

  • Double the memory and I/O capacity of competing blades and rackmounts: up to 270 Gb/sec I/O on a single Sun Blade X6270 for a total of up to 2700 GB/sec per chassis
  • Up to 45% more efficient than competing rackmount servers
  • Maximum flexibility - SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems
  • Unified ILOM management across SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based server modules
  • Industry standard-based PCIe ExpressModule technology simplify integration into existing networks and SAN

Key Applications

  • Virtualization and Consolidation
  • Enterprise IT and Web infrastructures
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)

Start Small and Scale Big with the Sun Blade Modular Systems

Watch how Sun's blade systems deliver unparalleled scalability, capacity and choice from the smallest companies to the largest HPC deployments.

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Sun Blade X6270 Product Overview

Have a look inside and explore its design features in detail.

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Power Calculator Configure your Sun Blade 6000 Modular System to see just how low your power consumption
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Sun Blade 6000 Chassis Gallery

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Choose the Right Blade Module

Consolidating midrange Solaris/SPARC business applications

Windows virtualization using xVM server, VMWare or Microsoft Hyper-V IT infrastructure applications Thread-intensive web 2.0, small databases, MySQL High Performance Computing Applications


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