Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server

Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server

Features and Benefits

If you want to improve performance and start saving money across your server farms through server consolidation or virtualization, the Sun SPARC Enterprise Server family is an exceptional solution. Although the Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server is the smallest server in the SPARC Enterprise family, it supports up to 32 threads per server to increase throughput and decrease your energy costs. Amazing performance and lower energy consumption in a compact space footprint -- meet the Sun SPARC Enteprise T1000 server.


Key Benefits

  • Massive multithreading delivers extreme compute density, open sourcing the processor propels innovation
  • Significant power, cooling, and space savings, potentially millions per year over other servers
  • Built for tough web tier and multithreaded application workloads
  • Built-in, no-cost virtualization technology with Logical Domains (LDoms) and Solaris Containers
  • Easy, efficient integration and connectivity

Reduced Space, Power, & Cooling

Rack-optimized efficiency

The power, space, and heat requirements of rack-mount servers are limiting growth and cost efficiency among 80 percent [1] of enterprise data centers. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server delivers up to 32 simultaneous execution threads and 32 GB memory in a rack-optimized 1RU enclosure typically drawing 180 watts of power, or roughly one-third to one-fifth that of other systems in its class.

Cut the cost of datacenter throughput

Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000/T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology are the most massively multithreaded servers available. Running up to 32 threads concurrently means less work per thread, which dramatically lowers your system power consumption and raises throughput per watt. With a 32-thread processor consuming just slightly more wattage than a household light bulb, the Sun SPARC Enterprise servers with CoolThreads technology are by far the new energy-efficient standard in datacenter computing.


Unmatched Performance & Scalability

The smart way to virtualize: Solaris Containers

The Solaris 10 OS, now with over 7 million downloads and 140 world records, is the industry's first and most secure OS for virtualization. One reason is that it's designed for continuous availability, a critical requirement for consolidation platforms. Another is Solaris Containers, thousands of low-overhead software partitions that are part of the OS, for free. Solaris Containers beat any other partitioning strategy from any other vendor in cost, number of partitions, and software overhead. Each container can even be cloned and moved within the same domain, across domains, or across systems to give you massive flexibility in building a low-cost, high-availability environment.

Solaris: the reliable long-term solution to growth

The Solaris 10 OS can offline CPUs, cores, and even individual threads–before a processor failure–to maximize uptime. And, for rapid growth, you can't do better than the Solaris OS. It's the only UNIX operating system that can scale from x86 to 72 socket (144 cores) RISC-based systems. The Solaris 10 OS also gives you these reliability safeguards:

  • Auto diagnosis and recovery
  • Pages of memory can be offlined without system failure
  • Memory mirroring provides another level of memory reliability
  • Aggressive memory page retirement
  • Component blacklisting
  • Automatic reboot


Memory to Spare

Grow as fast as you want

Eight available memory slots let you pack each Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server with up to 32 GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory for enormous workload and growth potential.


Four Onboard Ethernet Ports

Gigabit Ethernet flexibility

With four 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet ports, you get exceptional I/O performance and increased network flexibility, efficiency, reliability, and availability.


Solaris 10 Operating System

The enterprise-class OS of the future

With features such as Solaris Containers, Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Dynamic Tracing, and support across UltraSPARC platforms, the Solaris 10 Operating System sets entirely new standards for performance, efficiency, availability, and security.

Legacy application support and binary compatibility, guaranteed

Software applications written to the Solaris Application Binary Interface can run on new UltraSPARC T1-based systems without modification. There's no need to port applications to take advantage of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server's features. The Solaris Application Guarantee ensures it.

Optimize and accelerate multithreaded applications with Solaris 10 and Sun Studio 11

Utilization rates of Solaris 10 on the UltraSPARC T1 processor reach breakthrough levels, due to its multithreading efficiencies. And while the Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server doesn't require any new coding or recompiles for application compatibility, the newest release of Sun Studio gives developers the tools to significantly optimize applications for multithreaded performance. Its optimizing compilers are creating world-record application performance already.


Built-in, No-Cost Virtualization

Virtualize, outperform, and save

Sun's Logical Domains (LDoms) and Solaris Containers provide built-in, no-cost virtual-machine capabilities for Sun's CoolThreads (CMT) servers. With Sun's CoolThreads servers and LDoms, you can consolidate, virtualize and save like never before -- run up to 128 virtual machines on a single server without paying for proprietary virtualization technologies. Dramatically increase your server utilization, efficiency, and ROI for free! Learn more about LDoms technical best practices.

Here's an example

Sun LDoms are a no-cost, built-in feature of Sun CoolThreads servers. Competitive solutions such as IBM's proprietary virtualization technology can cost you up to $10,000 per server.

Major release of LDoms

Sun has released a major release of Logical Domains (Doms) 1.1 software, which features advanced capabilities including Domain Mobility, Virtual I/O Dynamic Reconfiguration, and Hybrid I/O for Network Interface Units. These new features dramatically extend the capabilities, performance, and usability of Sun LDoms software and helps you drive greater datacenter efficiency.

Let us get you started

Sun Virtualization Consulting Services experts can help you plan, design, and deploy a virtualized environment that can achieve significant savings on power and cooling, improve service availability up to 99.99 percent, increase utilization by as much as 80 percent, and facilitate rapid provisioning to maximize return on your IT investments.


Certified for Multiple Linux Distributions

Certified for Linux

A range of Linux distributions have been certified for Sun SPARC Enterprise servers with Coolthreads technology, with support provided by the respective distribution communities.

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Extended & Upgraded Warranty Coverage

Customers can extend and upgrade their product warranty coverage with our SunSpectrum Support Services. Through these support offerings, Sun delivers proven expertise and consistent responsive quality service to help you achieve high availability within your IT infrastructure. Learn more about how you can extend and upgrade your warranty coverage with SunSpectrum Support Services.


[1] 80% of data center managers report that their data centers are constrained by power, cooling and space (Gartner - 12/04)