Sun Fire E2900 Server

High Performance

Increased performance:

Sun's new UltraSPARC IV+ 64-bit Chip Multithreading (CMT) processor has significantly enhanced cores, 2-MB on-chip L2 cache, and a new 32-MB L3 cache using the latest 90nm process technology. It delivers over 5 times higher performance than UltraSPARC III servers, and over double performance increase over previous generation UltraSPARC IV servers in the same footprint. The UltraSPARC IV+ system supports in-chassis upgrades for previous generation Sun Fire E2900 and V1280 servers.

Enhanced Compute Density:

The Sun Fire E2900 fits into the widest range of racks in its class, helping to provide the compute density today's data centers require. In fact, two Sun Fire E2900 servers fit inside a standard rack, providing a total rack density of 24 UltraSPARC IV+ processors-for a total of 48 threads.

Exceptional scalability:

The enhanced Sun Fire E2900 server continues Sun's tradition of reducing risk and enabling customers to comfortably scale compute capacity. Member of the industry's most scalable server line from 1 to 144 threads it scales up to 12 processors, executing up to 24 simultaneous compute threads, and supports up to 192 GB of memory to provide maximum headroom for data-intensive applications.

Runs demanding applications:

The new Sun Fire E2900 server delivers significant productivity gains to address ever-demanding data and business logic workloads such as Application serving, business processing, database services, IT infrastructure, application development, collaboration, and compute-intensive scientific engineering applications.

Dynamic Tracing:

DTrace allows real time data collection and analysis of production systems, enabling customers to optimize application performance up to 300 percent.

Investment Protection

Reduces costs and complexity:

Protect your IT investments by seamlessly upgrading your existing UltraSPARC IV and III processor-based Sun Fire E2900 or V1280 systems to UltraSPARC IV+ servers.

Protects hardware investments:

Sun Fire E2900 server lets you mix and match UltraSPARC III, IV, and IV+ processors in the same system running the same workloads at the full rated speed of the processors, enabling the addition of faster processors as they become available and avoiding costly forced migrations to a new server. Customers can replace or mix faster processors to existing servers, on the fly.

Uses less data center space:

Enhanced throughput enables organizations to process workloads faster, run more applications, and deliver better value while lowering costs.

Availability

Unique enterprise-class technologies:

Dynamic Reconfiguration allows you to hot swap CPU/memory boards, dramatically improving availability and uptime. Remote monitoring and redundant power supplies help keep your data center working. Customers can take advantage of the Capacity on Demand (COD) offering in order to reserve hot spare COD boards that could be activated when needed.

Preventive measures promote availability:

The robust capabilities built into the various levels of the system, such as Predictive Self-Healing keep your business up and running. Automated diagnosis and recovery reduces need for human intervention. Error messages that are actionable and identify a clear cause can help eliminate delays in reacting to errors and can help minimize incorrect diagnoses. With better information about the dependencies throughout the software stack, systems can automatically recover services in the event of a fault.

Net Connect:

Sun Fire E2900 servers come ready to connect to Sun Remote Systems (SRS) Net Connect, Sun's secure remote services platform, enabling higher availability through fast, collaborative problem resolution, problem prevention, and free Web-based system analysis capabilities.

RAS-ready:

RAS features include hot-pluggable disk drives; redundant, hot-swappable power supplies; environmental monitoring and fault detection; Automatic System Recovery (ASR); automatic failover capability; and error correction and parity checking for improved data integrity.

Security

Secure by design:

The Solaris operating system provides easy to use, built-in, military-grade security features like a cryptographic infrastructure, process rights management, and a built-in firewall.

Cross-enterprise security:

Solaris Security Toolkit utilizes audit capability for "hardening" Solaris via a policy-based framework that rapidly and consistently secures multiple Solaris platforms.

Optimization

The Right Balance for the Data Center:

The Sun Fire E2900 server is precisely optimized for the delivery of application services, with the best balance of throughput performance, availability, and security-and the lowest total cost of operation.

Protect your IT investment:

Balance business demands against risk management by scaling up to meet the most demanding application requirements on a proven/tested platform.

Increased throughput with reduced risk:

Maximize utilization of large scale platforms with advanced partitioning technologies. Deliver highest levels of availability and security. Allow for step-by-step integration of new technologies such as Solaris 10 OS and UltraSPARC IV+ processors.

Capacity on Demand:

Capacity on Demand lets you respond flexibly to changing business requirements and pay only when extra capacity is needed.

Optimize Server Utilization:

Solaris Containers can increase server utilization up to 80 percent with minimal overhead. This makes the Sun Fire E2900 server an ideal platform on which to consolidate multiple applications in an isolated and secure environment.

Java Enterprise

Java Enterprise System:

The Sun Java Enterprise System comes pre-loaded on every Sun Fire E2900 server standard configuration with a 90 day evaluation license. The Java Enterprise System delivers a set of pre-integrated enterprise network services.

Available as a Sun System Pack

Sun System Pack

The Sun Fire E2900 server is available as a Sun System Pack, which combines the server with the right services as one offering, enabling customers to yield the most value from their IT assets. Sun System Packs offer significant advantages over traditional warranty by delivering higher value services, such as enhanced service coverage, automatic OS updates and training credits, which enable customers to accelerate performance from day one. The predictable, transparent pricing for Sun System Packs is less than purchasing the server and services individually, and offers the value and ease of the server and services at point of sale.

World-Class Service

One-stop shop:

The Sun Fire E2900 server is supported by Sun's world-class Services Organization. Our one-stop shop will handle all service needs painlessly.