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Sun Fire X4140 Server

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Features and Benefits

Looking for the best 1RU available? The Sun Fire X4140 server gives you up to four times the storage slots, up to twice the memory capacity, and twice the networking connectivity when compared to similar IBM, HP, and Dell offerings.

Key Benefits

Upgrade to Six-Core with the same power and thermal infrastructure
Compact scalability increases lifecycle and ROI
Runs Solaris 10, Linux, Windows, and VMware, supported by Sun
Integrated Lights Out Manager simplifies management, included at no cost

Built for Longevity

Solve sudden workload changes

The Sun Fire X4140 server is designed to anticipate your future processing, memory, storage, and cooling needs to take you further into the future than the others. Install it and scale as you need more speed, storage, and I/O, with no changes to the OS, software, rack, network infrastructure, or storage connections.

Scalability flexibility

The Sun Fire X4140 server is a general-purpose system designed for deployment in a wide range of architectures:

Scale-out architectures: With large memory capacity, internal storage, quad Gigabit Ethernet ports and high speed PCIe expansion slots, these servers tackle complex computing problems that require intense compute resources.
Scale-up architectures: With up to twelve cores available, these servers are well-suited for Web services, databases, and infrastructure services such as security, DNS, proxy, caching, firewalls, and gateways.
Scale-within: With its ability to run Solaris 10 Containers and VMware, the Sun Fire X4140 server is an ideal platform for consolidating multiple applications on a single platform.

These servers also complement the 24-core Sun Fire X4440 server and the 32-core Sun Fire X4600 M2 server.

Best-of-Class Performance

Disk-intensive processing: no problem

We gave this system over 2.4 terabytes of high-performance internal disk storage to make it the best 1RU server available for cycle-hungry horizontal databases and disk-intensive applications.

The most advanced OS for your datacenter

Sun Fire x64 servers and the Solaris 10 OS are an unbeatable combination. Consolidating Servers and Applications - This guide shows users, system administrators, and developers how to consolidate applications onto a single server using Solaris Containers technology.

Choose the best OS for your apps

As you'd expect, Sun Fire servers are designed to run your applications on Solaris 10, Linux, Windows, and VMware, all fully supported by Sun.

Competitive Comparison

How does the Sun Fire X4140 server compare to the HP DL365 G5, IBM x3455, and Dell PE SC1435 servers?

Competitive Landscape: Sun Fire X4140
	Sun Fire X4140	HP DL365 G5	Dell PE SC1435	IBM x3455
Rack Space	1U	1U	1U	1U
CPU Type	AMD Six-Core	AMD Quad	AMD Dual & Quad	AMD Dual & Quad
Max Socket	2 Sockets	2 Sockets	2 Sockets	2 Sockets
DIMMs / Chassis	16 DDR2	8 DDR2	8 DDR2	12 DDR2
Max Memory	64 GB	32 GB	32 GB	48 GB
Disk Drives	8x 2.5" SAS	6x 2.5" SAS/SATA	6x 3.5" SAS/SATA	6x 3.5" SAS/SATA
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6	RAID 0, 1, 5	RAID 0, 1	RAID 0, 1
GbE Ports	4x GbE	2x GbE	2x GbE	2x GbE
Expansion Slots	3x PCIe	2x PCIe	1x PCIe or 1x PCI-X	2x PCIe
Hot Swap PSUs	2x 650W	No, 2x 700W	No, 1x 600W	No, 1x 650W
Hot Swap Fans	Yes	No (Redundant Only)	None	None
Management	ILOM 2	iLO 2	IPMI 2.0	IPMI 2.0
Warranty	3 Yr NBD	3 Yr NBD	3 Yr NBD	1 Yr NBD

Easy Manageability

Cut the cost of management

The Sun Fire X4140 server comes standard with Sun's Integrated Lights Out Manager for greatly simplified system management and monitoring at no extra cost.

Easy maintenance boosts the bottom line

Like all Sun Fire servers, this one is designed with redundant and hot-swappable components, such as cooling fans, power supplies and disk drives, that make component replacement fast and easy.

Exceptional Resource Efficiency

Power efficiency
The Sun Fire X4140 server delivers Six-Core performance. AMD's fourth generation processors deliver performance on demand with built-in power-saving features that can reduce processor heat and power consumption.