Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 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.

Unmatched Performance & Scalability

Instant insight: the SWaP metric

The demand on datacenter efficiency and throughput just keeps growing. Space and power consumption have become hot issues. Choosing servers that deliver more throughput in a fixed space and power envelope is critical, but it's difficult to compare server efficiencies. For this reason, Sun developed the SWaP (Space, Watts, and Performance) metric, which is designed to provide a simple and transparent measure of overall server efficiency. SWaP is calculated using the following formula: SWaP = Performance / (Space x Power Consumption)

Using this metric:

• The 1RU Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server delivers overall SPECjbb2005 performance that is more than two times the 2RU HP rx2660, with three times the performance per watt, and a SWaP metric that is seven times higher.

More Performance in Less Space with Less Power

What can it do for me?

Meet the single-socket server that can support over 37,000 simultaneous web server users, 43,000 email server users or 192,000 business operations per second, typically in under 550 watts of power. For details, see benchmarks.

T2: more on one chip than ever before

The UltraSPARC T2 processor integrates 8 cores, 64 threads, 8 Floating Point Units, cryptographic acceleration, dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, and PCI-E I/O directly onto the processor. With dramatically increased floating point capabilities on the chip, the UltraSPARC T2 processor delivers up to thirty five times the performance of the first-generation UltraSPARC T1 processor when running floating point code. And, its on-chip dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) technology delivers up to four times the performance of current network interface cards.

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 virtualization technologies 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.

Open Platform, Open Standards

Certified for Linux

The Ubuntu Linux distribution has been certified for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server, with support provided by the respective distribution community

Solaris Operating System

Solaris is free, open and everywhere. Its proven, secure, enterprise-class capabilities are constantly growing through open source community innovation. Solaris is the only open source UNIX OS to run on over 900 platforms on multiple x86 and SPARC processors.

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.

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.

Zero Cost Security

Onboard cryptography

For the first time, Zero Cost Security is a reality – FAST and FREE. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server supports 10 industry-standard security ciphers, including those approved by the NSA. These industry-standard security ciphers are available through the on-chip, integrated cryptographic accelerators of the UltraSPARC T2 processor. There are no additional costs, and virtually no impact to performance as all crypto activities occur at near wire-speed.

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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.