Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 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 for less

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server is the first quad-socket SMP server to increase performance by scaling with increased compute threads, rather than higher frequency, minimizing power and space consumption. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server delivers up to 256 simultaneous compute threads across 32 cores.

Best-of-class benchmarks: performance and efficiency

These servers deliver the best levels of performance, performance per watt, and SWaP versus comparable IBM, HP, and x86 servers running a range of industry standard benchmarks.

More I/O scalability

Each UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor has an x8 PCIe port integrated directly into silicon so I/O throughput scales as processors are added to a system. Start with one socket and grow to four sockets without upgrading the system's I/O – it's built into each processor core. With the Sun External I/O Expansion Unit, it can scale to 28 PCIe slots.

Massive memory expandability

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server supports up to 2x more memory (512 GB of RAM) than many equivalent x86 servers. New, faster memory available for 1.6 GHz based Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers may further accelerate application performance.

Power management built in

UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus based servers are the among the first to incorporate Sun's unique power management features at both core and memory levels of the processor.

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

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server has 36 percent fewer parts than competitive four-socket x86 systems. Its processor and system integration reduce component count, and consequently reduce failures by up to 36 percent compared to x86 platforms, and 900 percent compared to legacy mid-range server platforms.

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 power supply units, fans, and disks
• RAID 0 and 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)

Solaris 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 T5440 server supports ten industry standard NSA-approved security ciphers available via the on-chip cryptographic accelerators.

Trust Solaris 10 for ultra-secure services

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

Accelerate and Simplify Management

Move faster under one management system

Sun's Integrated Lights Out Management (ILOM) tools enable the common management of both CoolThreads and x64 platforms.

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 CMT 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.

The Industry's Most Open Platform

Maximize your freedom

Only Sun has supported binary compatibility for applications running the Solaris OS with its unique binary compatibility guarantee. In addition, with the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 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