Sun Servers with CoolThreads Technology Selection Guide

Which UltraSPARC T1 Based Sun CoolThreads Server Do I Need?

All Sun CoolThreads servers based on the revolutionary UltraSPARC T1 processor deliver breakthrough levels of performance with dramatic power, cooling and space savings.

Which platform you ultimately select will be determined by the following:

• workloads you want to run
• anticipated levels of integration and capacity for future growth
• mechanisms for delivering high service-level uptimes
• space and power constraints
• price and price/performance considerations

The following can help to guide you platform selection:

Sun Fire T1000 or Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server
You would select the Sun Fire T1000 or Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server, if:

• You require high levels of throughput but have the most significant power, cooling and space constraints.
• You demand the best levels of price / performance and performance / watt with lowest acquisition price.
• You have an expansive rack-dense environment with server Redundancy, Availability and Serviceability provided at rack-level, rather than server level.
• You have limited need for external device expansion or connectivity.

Typical workloads include:

Compute node within massively horizontally scaled environment, i.e. access / presentation tier or low-end application layer of a web services environment; development and testing environments

Typical Customers:

• Developers
• Service Providers
• Organizations with expansive horizontally scaled web and application tier infrastructure, wanting to migrate from expensive and proprietary x86 & closed-RISC environments

Sun Fire T2000 or Sun SPARC Entperise T2000 Server
You would select the Sun Fire T2000 or Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server, if:

• You require maximum throughput
• You demand maximum internal expandability and external connectivity
• You require the highest levels of in-server RAS, delivered via redundancy of disks, power supplies and fans.

Typical Customers:

• Enterprise & Government data centres
• Departmental or company wide server in Small / Mid-Sizes organisations
• Organisations wanting to migrate from expensive and proprietary x86 & closed-RISC environments

Typical workloads include:

Database instances, demanding application server deployments or web tier consolidation projects requiring maximum uptime with future growth and integration into diverse environments.

An overview of differences between the T1000 and T2000 servers follow:

For more details, please see:

• Sun Fire T1000 server product page
• Sun Fire T2000 server product page
• Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server product page
• Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server product page