Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server

With mainframe-class features, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server is Sun's highest performance and largest multiprocessor Enterprise server delivering massive scalability, up to 64 processors and 256 cores to handle the largest workloads. It's designed for demanding virtualization, consolidation, and multi-hosting deployments that require mission-critical RAS features. Upgrade and save up to 20%.


At a Glance

  • Unmatched investment protection with no forklift upgrades - upgrade individual components, not the whole system
  • 100% SPARC/Solaris binary compatibility
  • Optimized for 24x7 mission critical computing and large shared memory applications
  • In the same system mix and match up to 32 or 64 quad-core SPARC64 VII processors or dual-core SPARC64 VI processors and up to 4 TB memory
  • Built-in, flexible virtualization technology
  • Mainframe RAS capabilities
  • Up to 288 PCIe or PCI-X slots with the external I/O expansion unit
  • Ideal consolidation platform with up to 24 dynamic domains and thousands of Solaris containers per system
  • The high density SPARC64 VII quad-core processor provides an almost 2X performance improvement over the SPARC64 VI dual-core option and therefore ideal on HPC or floating point intensive workloads and performance intensive Commercial applications

Key Applications

  • OLTP and BIDW databases
  • ERP, SCM, CRM deployments
  • High floating point applications
  • Compute-intensive scientific/engineering application serving
  • Applications requiring large shared memory spaces

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 sets new SAP-SD 2-tier World Record

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server running Solaris 10 OS, SAP ERP 6.0 and Oracle Database Server 10g achieved 39,100 SAP SD users on an industry standard measure of ERP performance the SAP 2-tier Sales and Distribution benchmark.[1]


Power Calculator

Configure your Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server to see just how low your power consumption can go. Note: Fujitsu, one of our business partners, designs and maintains the M-series power calculators.


Customer and ISV Endorsements


[1] SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark. Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark: SPARC Enterprise M9000, 64 proc. / 256 cores / 512 threads, UltraSPARC64 VII 2.52 GHz running Solaris 10, Oracle 10g and the SAP ERP application Release 6.0 (2005) - 39,100 SAP SD Benchmark users, 196,564 SAPS. Certification Number 2008042.


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