Sun Fire E4900 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 E4900 and 4800 servers

Exceptional scalability:

The enhanced Sun Fire E4900 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 E4900 server delivers significant productivity gains to address ever-demanding data and business logic workloads such as BIDW (database, decision support, data warehousing, data mining), business processing (ERP, CRM, OLTP, Batch), application serving, IT infrastructure (directory servers, systems and network management), application development, collaboration, scientific engineering.

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 III processor-based Sun Fire 4800 servers and UltraSPARC IV processor-based Sun Fire E4900 servers to UltraSPARC IV+ technology.

Protects hardware investments:

Sun Fire E4900 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 upgrades to faster processors as they become available, and preventing 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.

Interchangeable components:

The Sun Fire E4900 server offers common and interchangeable components with the industry's most scalable product line, such as the Uniboard CPU/memory board common to the Sun Fire E4900, E6900, E20K and E25K servers.

Availability

Unique enterprise-class technologies:

Dynamic Reconfiguration allows you to hot swap Uniboards dynamically across the entire UltraSPARC III, IV and IV+ product line--dramatically improving availability, uptime, and investment protection. Remote monitoring and full hardware redundancy 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.

RAS-ready:

RAS features include hot-pluggable disk drives; full hardware redundancy including 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.

Net Connect:

Sun Fire E4900 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.

Security

Secure by design:

The Solaris operating system provides easy to use, built-in, military-grade security features like process rights management, a cryptographic infrastructure, 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 E4900 server is precisely optimized for the delivery of mission-critical applications, with the best balance of throughput performance, availability, and security-and the lowest total cost of operation.

Consolidation spoken here:

The Sun Fire E4900 server supports Sun's unique Dynamic System Domains technology-100 percent fault-isolated hard partitions that deliver the highest levels of availability and utilization. Combined with the Solaris 10 OS flagship feature Solaris Containers, these capabilities help you reduce costs by consolidating multiple servers and mission-critical applications onto a single Sun Fire E4900 server.

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.

Java Enterprise

Java Enterprise System:

The Sun Java Enterprise System comes pre-loaded on every Sun Fire E4900 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 E4900 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, offers the value and ease of the server and services at point of sale.