Date: 25-Nov-2009   URL: www.sun.com/servers/blades/x8400/specs.xml

Sun Blade X8440 Server Modules

Specifications

The Sun Blade X8440 Server Modules were engineered to leverage the fastest AMD Opteron (standard power) quad-core (835x series) processors. With balanced memory, I/O and processing capabilities, the Sun Blade X8440 Server Modules can easily scale to meet the performance requirements of workloads previously reserved for power and cooling inefficient rackmount servers.


Key Specifications

  • 4 AMD Opteron Quad-Core (835x Series) processors
  • Up to 4 sockets/16 cores/16 threads per Server Module (using quad-core processors)
  • Up to 128GB memory, 32x DIMM slots per Server Module
  • Up to 192Gb/s I/O per Server Module
Sun Blade X8440 Server Module
Processor1
  • Supports AMD Opteron quad-core (8300 Series) processors
  • Two or Four processor quad-core configurations currently available:
    • 8354 (2.2GHz), 512KB L2, 2MB L3, 75W
    • 8356 (2.3GHz), 512KB L2, 2MB L3, 75W
    • 8347 HE (1.9GHz), 512KB L2, 2MB L3, 55W

Main Memory2
  • Total of 128 GB of RAM per X8440 (4 CPU sockets populated) server module
  • Eight DIMM slots per populated CPU socket, 32 DIMM slots total for a large memory footprint using cost-efficient 2GB memory DIMMs
  • Supports DDR2/667, PC2-5300 ECC-registered 2GB or 4GB DIMMs

Server Module Architecture 8.0 GBps HyperTransport link with 10.6 GBps access between processor and memory

I/O Interfaces 6 PCI Express Links (per Server Module) for connectivity to 2 PCIe ExpressModules and 4 PCIe Network Express Modules (chassis dependent) (6 links @ x8)

Storage
  • Two hot-swappable 2.5" SAS disk drives per server module
    • Externally accessible disk drives
    • Hard disk drives currently supported:
      • 73GB 15,000 RPM 2.5" SAS
      • 73GB 10,000 RPM 2.5" SAS
      • 146GB 10,000 RPM 2.5" SAS

  • Two SAS/SATA interfaces per server module using an LSI SAS1064E controller
    • Two SAS interfaces, one to each of the SFF (small form factor) SAS/SATA disk drive bays
    • HW RAID 0,1

  • Click here for supported external storage

Graphics Embedded graphics using an ATI ES1000 Video Controller
Software
Operating Systems
  • Sun Solaris Operating System
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
  • Microsoft Windows Server
  • VMware ESX Server
Click here for the latest OS support information.

Sun Java Enterprise System
  • Solaris 10 Operating System
  • Standard Linux distributions

Networking ONC, ONC+, NFS, WebNFS, TCP/IP, SunLink, OSI, MHS, IPX/SPX, SMB technologies, and XML

Management
  • 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

  • Find out about xVM Ops Center
  • Find out about Sun ILOM
  • Find out about other management tools from Sun
  • Find out about integrating with third party management applications

1 Up to ten server modules per chassis and 3 Sun Blade 8000 P chassis per rack, yielding up to 480 cores per rack.
2 Up to 3,840 GB in a fully populated 42U rack.

 
 
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