With up to double the memory DIMM slots of competing blade servers, the Sun Blade X6440 server module delivers a large memory footprint using cost-efficient 2 GB or 4 GB DIMMs. Supporting up to 256 GB of memory allows this blade to easily handle those memory intensive workloads that less capable blades couldn't handle.
Key Specifications
Four high performance Six-Core or enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
Thirty-two memory slots supporting power efficient DDR2, PC2-5300/677 MHz Registered ECC DIMMs with 2x 2 GB, 2x 4 GB or 2x 8 GB memory kits
Up to 128 GB of main memory using cost-efficient 4 GB DIMMs; up to 256 GB of main memory using 8 GB DIMMs
Four PCI Express, four SAS, and two 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet interfaces per server module via passive midplane
Two 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet ports using Intel 82575EB Controllers
One dedicated 10/100 Base-T Ethernet port for the management network
Storage
Four SAS interfaces to the chassis midplane, two to each Network Express Module (NEM) slot
IDE Compact Flash Module Interface (Type 1)
Graphics
Embedded graphics using the AST2000 video controller with 128 MB of shared SDRAM
Midplane I/O
Four (x8) PCIe busses, two to the Network Express Module (NEM) slots, two to the PCIe ExpressModule (EM) slots
Four 3 Gbps SAS interfaces, two to each NEM slot
Two 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet interfaces using Intel 82575EB GbE Controller, one interface to each NEM
10/100 Ethernet management port to the Chassis Monitoring Module (CMM)
Front Panel I/O
Available via dongle cable:
VGA graphics (DB-15 connector)
Serial console to server module onboard Integrated Lights Out Management (ILOM)
Dual USB ports for keyboard, mouse, or storage
Software
Operating Systems
Solaris™ 10 Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
VMware ESX and ESXi
Windows Server 2003 (32-bit/64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32-bit/64-bit)
Networking
ONC™, ONC+™, NFS, WebNFS, TCP/IP, SunLink™,OSI, MHS, IPX/SPX, SMB Technologies, and XML
Management
On-board lights-out management via embedded service processor, providing:
DMTF-style command line
Support for SSH 2.0, HTTPS, RADIUS, LDAP, and MS Active Directory
Browser-based GUI
IPMI 2.0; SNMP v1, v2c, v3
Local and remote KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) and media (CD, floppy)
Optional Sun xVM Ops Center — Generation of profiles to ensure compliance and compliance reporting, discovery and registration of datacenter assets, job scheduling to perform network tasks, system provisioning, and updates to Linux and the Solaris OS
