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OverviewNo Longer OrderableWith 106 UltraSPARC III Cu 1.2 GHz processors, more than half a terabyte of memory in a single domain, and fifth-generation Dynamic System Domains, the Sun Fire 15K server helps redefine total cost of ownership (TCO) in data center environments. In order to further reduce TCO, the Sun Fire 15K server is now enhanced with the Capacity on Demand 2.0 "pay when used" option and the high performance Memory Placement Optimization Functionality. Low Total Cost of OwnershipReducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase return on investment (ROI) are crucial today. Sun is the only vendor to offer address horizontal, vertical AND cross-generational scalability - from single processor workstations to large SMP systems. By committing to a seamless, smooth upgrade path, Sun helps keep your total cost of ownership low. With a common UltraSPARC architecture, common Solaris Operating Environment, binary compatibility (from a single-CPU to hundreds of CPU systems, spanning generations and common components) -- Sun delivers unparalleled protection of your applications and hardware investments.The Sun Fire servers are an extension of Sun's award-winning Sun Enterprise[tm] family of servers. Sun will continue to enhance and support the Enterprise family for years to come, allowing you to adopt the Sun Fire servers according to your schedule. Dynamic Resource ManagementSun provides mainframe-class resource management tools to users of both high-end and midrange servers. Today, it's more vital than ever to have complete control over your system resources. With the Sun Fire 15K server, this aspect of IT management is easier than ever, thanks to Dynamic System Domains, Solaris Resource Manager software, Solaris Bandwidth Manager software and Solaris Processor Sets.Sun has a long history of providing the tools and capabilities you need to reduce administrative costs, increase the flexibility of your IT resources and dynamically match your systems to your business requirements. While many organizations are just beginning to talk about partitioning and maximizing technological resources in an open systems environment, Sun has been delivering these capabilities for more than six years. Dynamic System Domains Sun's proven Dynamic System Domain technology allows you to run multiple mission-critical applications on a single server. Each domain is fully isolated from hardware and software faults that may occur in another domain. With Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR), you can easily move system resources from one domain to another to support fluctuations in business workloads. Also, you can flexibly customize I/O and CPU/memory to your requirements by independently associating any I/O board with any domain. Ideal for server consolidation projects, Dynamic System Domains provide flexible, mainframe-like resource management enabling you to optimize your IT resources. With the Sun Fire 15K server, Sun introduces the 5th-generation Dynamics System Domains which provides advanced domain resource management capabilities, including:
Processor Sets Processor sets enable a Sun Fire 15K server's UltraSPARC III processors to be divided into dedicated groups for enhanced management of your CPU resources. Through Solaris Operating Environment commands, processes may be bound to a particular set of processors, preventing CPU contention and eliminating processor starvation. Because multiple applications can run within their own processor sets on dedicated CPUs, processor sets also help to facilitate server consolidation. Mainframe RehostingAll businesses must drive down operational costs to sustain long-term competitive advantage in the market. For IT organizations with large investments in mainframes, this is an increasing challenge. With no real competitors left in the mainframe server business, the cost of the associated hardware and software licenses continue their rapid rate of increase.The challenge for mainframe-based businesses today is how to keep the value of proven CICS and batch applications, while dramatically reducing the costs associated with mainframes. Through the Mainframe Affinity Program, Sun offers products, tools, partnerships and services that help enable you to interoperate with, rehost or replace mainframe applications on more cost-efficient, open platforms - often at equal or greater levels of performance, flexibility and scalability. Sun mainframe rehosting solutions help enable you to reuse your mainframe applications and data files on high performance, high availability Sun servers and to redefine total cost of ownership across your IT organization, resulting in up to 70% cost savings. AvailabilitySun takes a broad, integrated approach to providing high availability. The Sun Fire 15K server delivers mainframe-class features such as full hardware redundancy, Dynamic System Domains and Hot Swap Components. These features, combined with the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, Sun[tm] Cluster software and Sun StorEdge[tm] storage solutions is designed to bring you the high availability your enterprise demands.The rock-solid, mainframe-class availability offered by the Sun Fire 15K server creates an ideal platform for your organization's most mission-critical applications. Extensive availability features include:
For virtually continuous application access and built-in load balancing, Cluster Platforms provide factory-integrated combinations of software, servers, and storage arrays designed to help you simplify deployment of IT infrastructures. These application-ready hardware and software stacks have been pre-tested for interoperability and reliability, so you can get all the benefits of Sun technology while reducing the time, cost, and risk of deployment. Sun's Service organization will guide you in designing, implementing and managing solutions that help ensure every aspect of your environment supports your uptime goals. Sun's innovative programs, proven methodologies and proactive services -- such as SunReady[sm] Lifecycle Advantage and Sun Remote Services -- help you to minimize downtime and maximize availability and ease of management. Separate Admin/Error Busses Advancements in the Sun Fire 15K server include separate uptime (error) and console (administration) busses to enhance reliability, availability, and serviceability. Within the UltraSPARC III processor, the uptime bus runs independent of the main system bus, allowing the CPU to be powered-on, configured and tested without requiring that the majority of the system be operational. For example, if a fatal error is detected on the system bus, each processor can boot and run diagnostics over the uptime bus to identify and isolate any problems. Additionally, key portions of internal state can be sampled in real-time -- even while the machine continues to run a normal workload. This enables visibility into the CPU for both detection and proactive prevention of errors. A separate console bus communicates with each of up to 18 Dynamic System Domains if data and address busses are inaccessible. The console bus is also used for system component configuration as well as low-level diagnostic execution. System Controller Failover The internally-packaged System Controller (SC), running a separate instance of the highly reliable Solaris Operating Environment, expertly monitors, administers and manages all resources for the Sun Fire system. The Sun Fire 15K server is uniquely configured with redundant, failover System Controllers, to provide uninterrupted access to system administration. Failover assists in ensuring no single point of failure in the management of the system. At any time during SC failover, the failover process does not affect any configured or running Dynamic System Domains, except for temporary loss of services from the SC. In the event of hardware or software failures, the SC will failover to the active spare SC. All System Management Services data, configuration, and log files are replicated on the spare SC, while active domains continue to operate. There are two private Ethernets for communications between the two System Controllers. This private network is used as a heartbeat function between each System Controller, as well as data replication of platform/domain configuration files. Traffic Manager Traffic Manager I/O is designed to deliver automatic fail-over to alternate paths in the event of a path failure. It also helps to provide manual path switch-over for Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR), ideal for high data-transfer environments. Additionally, Traffic Manager's tunable, policy-driven load balancing enhances I/O performance for devices with multiple paths by providing a native N-Way multipathing solution for SCSI-3 FC storage devices in Solaris Operating Environment. Data IntegrityError correcting code and parity protection throughout system, including error protection on UltraSPARC III processors, data cache, system interface, Sun Fireplane Interconnect, and console bus.ScalabilityWith today's heightened focus on total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI), maintaining flexibility is vital to extracting the most from your investments. The ability to easily add capacity, performance and bandwidth -- with the minimum amount of complexity -- is key to being able to provision resources where needed.Sun delivers the architecture on which you can build a massively scalable and redeployable application environment. The Sun Fire servers have been designed from the ground up to scale easily to grow at a pace and redeploys to match your business needs. When combined with the scalability of the Solaris Operating Environment, UltraSPARC III processors, Sun[tm] Cluster software and StorEdge[tm] disk arrays, Sun delivers the scalability you need to be ready for whatever tomorrow brings. Sun systems are architected with scalability as a key design focus, both for changes in hardware capacities within a server as well as for mid-life product enhancements. As your capacity demands increase, Sun Fire servers support a simple and non-disruptive process for adding CPU, Memory and I/O resources. The Solaris Operating Environment has the added advantage of more than eight years of effort that enables near linear utilization of multiple processors. Today, Solaris scales efficiently and robustly to 106 UltraSPARC III processors in a single physical chassis. Sun's ability to pack such a high density of processors within a single physical chassis is a direct outcome of our sophisticated interconnect technology, the Sun Fireplane Interconnect. This crossbar-based interconnect enables a point-to-point connection for all addresses and data transmissions, resulting in low latency and high bandwidth for superior application performance. Big MemoryFor memory-intensive computation and processes, databases as large as half a terabyte in a single domain can be performed in-memory, reducing data retrievals from external disk or tape.Scalable Operating SystemThe Solaris 9 Operating Environment has the added advantage of more than eight years of effort that enables near linear utilization of multiple processors. Today, Solaris scales efficiently and robustly to 106 UltraSPARC III processors in a single physical chassis. Solaris 9 also provides the Memory Placement Optimization (MPO) feature which enables the servers to put memory closer to the CPU that needs it, therefore increasing performance. High PerformanceIn any computing system, the key to performance goes beyond individual metrics such as CPU speed or I/O transfer rates. The best performing computing environments deliver balanced performance. The Sun Fire servers deliver a level of performance that is sustainable, real and useful.The SPARC[tm] architecture, the Solaris Operating Environment and the Sun Fireplane Interconnect have been designed to work together seamlessly. The natural synergies that flow from having the system elements developed using a single design vision results in systems that deliver exceptional real-world performance. Sun Fireplane Interconnect In order to provide the bandwidth required to optimize performance in today's computing environments, system interconnects are required to be faster and have lower latencies than ever before. The Sun Fireplane Interconnect is built to provide very high system bandwidth -- up to 172.8 GB/sec peak bandwidth in the Sun Fire 15K server. The Sun Fireplane Interconnect results in deterministic latencies, which translate into more predictable performance across a broad set of applications. What's more, big memory -- over 1/2 TB -- makes Sun Fire systems an excellent platform for in-memory applications and memory-intensive computation. UltraSPARC III Cu Processors The UltraSPARC III Cu microprocessor, Sun's third-generation 64-bit processor, incorporates architectural features designed to optimize SMP multiprocessor environments. It scales the clock rates and delivers high memory bandwidth, with a system interface bandwidth of 2.4 GB/sec. The memory subsystems, as well as E-cache, are protected with Error Correcting Code (ECC). The UltraSPARC architecture is specifically crafted to support workload-intensive environments such as e-commerce, large corporate networks, high-capacity web servers and online transaction processing -- or any demanding commercial or technical computing environment. Key features such as an on-chip memory controller, Uptime bus, and high memory bandwidth all contribute to increased application performance. Memory Placement Optimization (MPO)A feature of the Solaris Operating Environment, MPO improves the placement of memory pages across the across the physical memory of a server, resulting in increased performance.Investment ProtectionSun systems adhere to a consistent, binary-compatible system design based on the SPARC/Solaris/SMP combination. This design consistency, from generation to generation, helps ensure that Sun systems offer a degree of compatibility not available from any other platform vendor.Secure ManagementThe Sun Fire 15K server is designed to provide strong security for both single and multiple domain configurations. The highly secure system management environment includes an internal network with dedicated links to each domain and utilizes encryption for system controller-to-domain communications. In addition, multi-level access control capability provides heightened protection by guarding against unauthorized administrator access.System ManagementSun Management Center software offers a single point of management for Sun systems and storage components, the Solaris Operating Environment, and applications running on the Solaris platform. Sun Management Center software integrates into heterogeneous IT environments and scales to allow management from one system to thousands of servers and desktop systems, from anywhere on the network.Remote AdministrationSun's suite of remote management and monitoring services enables proactive, early problem detection and prompt resolution of system events. This contributes to high service levels by delivering faster problem resolution and direct access to Sun experts and design engineers. This also helps protect your invesments in staff by reducing their monitoring workload and enhancing their expertise.ManageabilityCapacity on Demand 2.0 (COD) is designed to offer instant access to additional system capacity with no disruption to operations. Customers can configure Sun Fire servers with additional "capacity on demand" resources and pay for those resources only when they are needed.ProcessorUltraSPARC III ProcessorsThe UltraSPARC III microprocessor, Sun's third-generation 64-bit processor, incorporates architectural features designed to optimize SMP multiprocessor environments. It scales the clock rates and delivers high memory bandwidth, with a system interface bandwidth of 2.4 GB/sec. The memory subsystems, as well as E-cache, are protected with Error Correcting Code (ECC). The UltraSPARC architecture is specifically crafted to support workload-intensive environments such as e-commerce, large corporate networks, high-capacity web servers and online transaction processing -- or any demanding commercial or technical computing environment. Key features such as an on-chip memory controller, Uptime bus, and high memory bandwidth all contribute to increased application performance. Capacity
SystemUniboard CPU/Memory Boards Common across all Sun Fire 3800-15K servers, the Uniboard CPU/memory board design allows customers to provision resources between Sun servers to meet specific application needs, providing investment protection and resource flexibility. The Sun Fire 15K server supports up to eighteen Uniboard CPU/memory boards, providing a total memory capacity of 576 GB for the domain. Each Uniboard in the Sun Fire 15K server is configured with four UltraSPARC III Cu 1.2-GHz processors and up to 32 GB of memory. Memory is arranged in eight banks of four DIMM modules each, with two banks associated with each processor. Customers can also opt to use a smaller Uniboard CPU/memory board with two processors and 4 GB of memory, enabling the creation of physical domains as small as two processors.PerformanceOverall System Bandwidth Up to 172.8 GBps peak, up to 43.2 GBps sustained.Overall I/O Bandwidth: up to 21.6 GBps sustained. AvailabilityFull hardware redundancy, Hot Swap CPU, Memory, I/O, Power and Fans, Upgrades, Online upgrades, Journaling file system, Concurrent maintenance, Full data integrity, Redundant network connections, Redundant storage connections, Hardened operating system kernel, Hardened I/O drivers,RAS FeaturesSun's proven Dynamic System Domain technology allows you to run multiple mission-critical applications on a single server. Each domain is fully isolated from hardware and software faults that may occur in another domain. With Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR), you can easily move system resources from one domain to another to support fluctuations in business workloads. Also, you can flexibly customize I/O and CPU/memory to your requirements by independently associating any I/O board with any domain. Ideal for server consolidation projects, Dynamic System Domains provide flexible, mainframe-like resource management enabling you to optimize your IT resources.SecurityThe Sun Fire 15K server is designed to provide strong security for both single and multiple domain configurations. The highly secure system management environment includes an internal network with dedicated links to each domain and utilizes encryption for system controller-to-domain communications. In addition, multi-level access control capability provides heightened protection by guarding against unauthorized administrator access.Resource ManagementFifth-generation Dynamic System Domains, Solaris Resource Manager software, Solaris Bandwidth Manager softwareSoftwareSolstice Site Manager and Solstice Domain Manager, Solstice Backup, Solstice DiskSuite, Sun StorEdgeVolume Manager, VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1.1, VERITAS File System 3.4, Sun Cluster 3.0 software Mass StorageNetra S1 Thin Storage (Boot Device); 250+ terabytes direct connect storage available; Fibre Channel, Low Voltage Differential and Differential SCSI supported; Sun StorEdge A5200; Sun StorEdge array products supported, Sun StorEdge 9900 products supported.Power/FanFully redundant power and cooling are standard with this system.EnvironmentAC Power:200-240 single phase VAC, 47-63 Hz, with six 30 Amp circuits redundant with another six on 2 separate power grids
Operating: RegulationsSafety:UL 1950, CUL CAN/CSA 22:2 M950, TUV EN60950
RFI/EMI FCC Immunity: Dimensions and WeightHeight:109 cm (74.75 in.)
Width: Depth: Weight: UpgradesThe Sun Upgrade Advantage Program (UAP) offers trade-in value for qualified Sun and competitive servers towards the purchase of replacement Sun Fire 15K servers. Whether upgrading one system or consolidating many systems to one, Sun UAP offers the flexibility to trade-in systems and receive credit towards the new Sun system purchased. Upgrades are also available for Sun Fire server system component upgrades including CPU/memory boards, and I/O assemblies.Product Family Positioning
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