The Sun Blade X6450 server module comes standard with four PCI Express links, two onboard Gigabit Ethernet controllers and optional SAS interface. Consistent with all Sun Blade platforms, the hot-pluggable I/O is separate from the server module, and it offers unique I/O per blade for maximum configuration flexibility.
Key Specifications
Two or four, 4, 6-core Intel Xeon Processors
Twenty-four memory slots supporting 667 MHz Registered ECC DDR2 FBDIMMs with 2x2 GB, 2x4 GB or 2x8 GB memory kits
Up to 192 GB of main memory
Four PCI Express interfaces per server module (two x8 and two x4) via passive midplane
Support for Flash Solid State Drives to accelerate application response time and reduce energy consumption
Four SAS interfaces to the midplane, two to each Network Express Module (NEM)
IDE CompactFlash Module Interface (Type I)
Internal SATA solid-state drive (SSD) interface
Graphics
Embedded graphics using the AST2000 video controller with 128 MB of shared SDRAM
Midplane I/O
Two x8 PCI Express busses, one x8 PCIe bus to each of the PCIe ExpressModules (EMs)
Two x4 PCI Express busses, one x4 bus to each of the NEMs
Four 3Gbps SAS interfaces, two to each NEM
Two 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, one per NEM
10/100 Ethernet management port to Chassis Monitoring Modules (CMM)
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* Sun P/N X4607A is required for RAID 0/1 Support
* Sun P/N X4620A is required for RAID5 Support
* Sun P/N X1029A-Z is required for 10GbE Functionality
Front Panel I/O
Available via dongle cable:
VGA graphics (DB-15 connector)
Serial console server to server module or Onboard Lights Out management
Dual USB ports for keyboard, mouse, or storage
Software
Operating Systems
Solaris 10 Update 4 64-bit
VMware ESX 3.0.2 64-bit
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP2 32-bit/ 64-bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 4 32-bit/64-bit
The following OSes are supported on Intel Xeon 7400 series processors:
Solaris 10 5/08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 (AS4.7) (32-bit and 64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (64-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)10 SP1 (64-bit)
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition (32-bit)
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition (64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 Data Center Edition
VMware ESX Server 3.5 and ESX3i
Networking
ONC, ONC, NFS, WebNFS, TCP/IP, SunLink, OSI, MHS, IPX/SPX, SMB technologies, and XML
Management
CLI (in-band and out-of-band), IPMI 2.0 (in-band and out-of-band), SNMP (out-of-band only)
Advanced onboard management and monitoring enabled by embedded Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Service Processor. Key functionality includes:
Local and Remote KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)
Local and Remote Media (CD, floppy, USB)
DMTF style Command Line
IPMI 2.0
SNMP v1, v2c, v3
SSH 2.0, HTTPS
Access Authentication
Sun xVM Ops Center — Generation of profiles to ensure compliance and compliance reporting, discovery and registration of data center assets, job scheduling to perform network tasks, system provisioning, updates to Linux and Solaris operating systems
