Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Server

Flash SSDs Improve Response Times

Accelerate I/O performance quickly and efficiently

Sun's Flash SSDs shatter the I/O bottlenecks, providing you with the speed, scalability, and efficiency you need to improve application response times by up to 70x. Hot-swappable SSDs dramatically improve performance without disrupting your applications, and are 70x more cost-efficient than traditional HDD deployments. In fact, SSDs consume 38% less power/GB and 98% less power/IO compared to spinning disks, making SSDs the most cost-effective way to boost server performance.

World Record Throughput, Energy and Space Efficiency

Scale more with less

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers are the first SMP servers to increase performance by scaling with increased compute threads, rather than a higher frequency, minimizing power and space consumption. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server delivers the highest compute density ever with up to 128 threads in 1 RU while typically consuming less than 700 watts of power. With up to 5,120 threads per rack, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server delivers up to 32x higher compute density than competitive systems.

The 3rd generation UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor

The UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor is a "System on a Chip" for multi-socket systems. It integrates 8 cores, 64 threads, 8 Floating Point Units, cryptographic acceleration, and PCIe I/O directly onto each processor. High speed processor interconnects help ensure that your multi-threaded applications scale, enabling you to maximize throughput and ROI, while saving money and the planet!

Power management built in

UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus based servers are the first to incorporate Sun's unique power management features at both core and memory levels of the processor. They actively reduce instruction issue rates, park idle threads, disable cores, and turn off clocks in cores and memory to reduce power consumption by up to 35 percent.

Efficient power supplies

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server comes with highly efficient 80 Plus compliant power supplies at no additional cost.

Power insight

Power consumption reporting is a standard feature. Both system power and power supply consumption can be reported every five seconds for both instantaneous and historical analysis – an essential need for effective datacenter power management and chargeback.

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 Chip Multithreading (CMT) servers. With Sun CMT 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 CMT servers. Competitive solutions such as IBM's proprietary virtualization technology can cost you up to $10,000 per server.

Major release of LDoms

The latest release of LDoms 1.2 raises the bar for built-in server virtualization, providing several new performance and management enhancements that make it a true production-ready enterprise virtualization platform for Sun CMT servers.

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.

Higher Reliability, More Uptime

Fewer moving parts

Sun's innovative integration at both the processor and system level deliver a part count reduction of up to 20 percent compared to competitive 2-socket x86 platforms and 13x compared to legacy mid-range server platforms, directly reducing service interruptions due to component failure.

More reliable by design

Sun's design for reliability, availability, and serviceability includes:

• High MTBF for any single points of failure
• Redundant hot-plug of key system components, including PSUs, fans, and disks
• RAID 0 & 1 provided as standard, an expensive option among competitors
• Ability to off-line individual threads, with no impact to adjacent threads, cores, or sockets
• Lower power consumption and higher performance per watt, reducing heat and helping to avert the 10 percent of all hardware failures caused by excessive heat (based on Sun studies)

Predictive Self Healing

This Solaris 10 feature delivers reliability improvements of up to 50 percent. It automatically and transparently diagnoses, isolates, and recovers hardware and application faults – even misconfigured software.

Sun Cluster

Take advantage of the most integrated high availability clustering solution. It significantly increases availability with automated diagnosis, recovery and repair, fail/restart functionality, application isolation, and automated failover.

Higher Security, Lower Cost

Securing the enterprise at speed

For the first time, Zero Cost Security is a reality – fast and free. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server supports ten industry standard including NSA-approved security ciphers, available via the on-chip cryptographic accelerators built into the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. This comes at no additional cost, and minimal impact to performance.

Trust Solaris 10 for ultra-secure services

Stay up and running 24x7 by taking advantage of the Solaris 10 OS's advanced security, business continuity, and availability features:

• Solaris 10 provides security features previously only found in Sun's military-grade Trusted Solaris OS
• Solaris 10's User and Process Rights Management feature works in conjunction with Solaris Containers to let you securely host thousands of applications and multiple customers on the same system
• Solaris Trusted Extensions, an extension of the existing Solaris 10 security policy, lets you handle specific regulatory or information-protection requirements with labeling features previously only available in highly specialized operating systems or appliances

Accelerate and Simplify Management

Move faster under one management system, no matter whose

Sun's Integrated Lights Out Management (ILOM) tools enable the common management of both CoolThreads and x64 platforms from Sun with the same tool set. And ILOM's use of industry standard protocols allows easy integration into frameworks such as CA Unicenter, HP Openview, and IBM Tivoli. That helps you decrease installation time, improve time to market, and increase agility as well as reduce management overhead for on-going maintenance and patching.

Manage everything from one place

Sun's ILOM also works with our xVM Ops Center to help you provision, monitor, patch, and manage a wide range of Sun systems. It's an easy-to-setup, easy-to-use, single point of integrated hardware and software management.

CoolTools are here

Sun's CoolThreads servers are the only major server platforms with access to a range of no-cost tools (CoolTools), covering the complete application lifecycle: platform selection, development, tuning, deployment and management, along with pre-compiled and pre-optimized Open Source AMP (Apache, MySQL, PERL/PHP) applications.

Standardize under one design

Sun's CoolThreads servers have a common system layout and have many shared parts with x64 platforms, including chassis, disk drives, fans, DVD, and expansion cards - simplifying deployment and service across the product lines.

The Industry's Most Open Platform

Maximize your freedom

UltraSPARC and Solaris are the only open architectures to maintain binary compatibility over the past 20 years, with the past three versions of Solaris legally underwritten by Sun's unique binary compatibility guarantee. In addition, with the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 server, you get:

• The only 64-bit processor and virtualization hypervisor licensed under the GPL
• A choice of open source operating systems and pre-installed Sun Java Enterprise System middleware
• The Solaris 10 operating system, free, open and everywhere, offering proven enterprise-class, indemnified features, led by community innovation