Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server

At a Glance

• Mainframe-class reliability in a single-CPU, 2RU form factor at an entry-level price
• Mainframe-class RAS capabilities
• Efficient design saves space and energy
• Powered by the SPARC64 VII processor
• Ideal for single-threaded workloads
• ½ the size and power with 2x the performance of legacy UltraSPARCIIIi servers
• Easy to integrate into existing infrastructure
• Easy to scale out as business needs grow

Key Applications

• Business intelligence
• Database
• Data mining
• Batch processing
• Business processing (ERP, SCM, CRM)

Upgrade and Save

Receive a trade-in allowance of up to 15% when you upgrade from the UltraSPARC IIIi servers to a Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server.

Power Calculator

Configure your Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 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.

New SPARC64 VII Processor

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 server is powered by the SPARC64 VII processor, the same processor used in the world-record breaking M4000-M9000 systems. The SPARC64 VII features:

• 2.52-GHz processor, with two threads per core
• 5 MB of on-chip L2 cache
• Improved reliability features, including core isolation and increased checkers

Extreme RAS Features, Including XSCF

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server includes several key RAS features, including the powerful Extended System Control Facility (XSCF), which is a set of monitoring and control capabilities that improves reliability and communicates system status to administrators.

The XSCF includes:

• Management of hardware configuration, system health, and error monitoring and reporting
• Dedicated processor independent from system processor
• Communication via shell and Web interfaces, SNMP agents, and email
• SSH or SSL encryption capability

• Automatic recovery and instruction level retry
• Extended ECC memory protection
• Dynamic L1 and L2 cache way degradation
• EPU instruction retry
• Fault Isolation (Chip,processors, I/O, ASICS) rich check/recovery mechanisms in processors
• Hot swappable power supplies, fans, and disks and dual power feed

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