Sun Data Center Reference Architecture

The Sun Data Center Reference Architecture captures and applies Sun's best practices and latest technologies to help you modernize your data centers to address the following tough challenges in the day to day operation;

• Meet rapidly changing business demands.
• Ready to scale up applications' capacity at a moment’s notice.
• Keep costs down and keep space, power and cooling within limits.
• Ensure that neither corporate nor client data is compromised.

 
 

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Key Benefits

• Facilitate quick response to market changes and opportunities.
• Design of reliable, scalable network infrastructure helps quickly and easily provision and run web-based applications and services.
• Improve performance, space, power and cooling efficiencies and better economics in the data center.
• Virtualization technologies help customers increase system utilization and ROI and bypass power and space limitations.
• Help preserve and improve data center system reliability, availability, and serviceability as the complexity of a data center increases.
• Security features of Sun software and servers ensure availability, while maintaining data privacy and regulatory compliance.
• Address business continuity requirements for mission-critical applications.

 
 

Data Center Reference Architecture Document Set

It is highly recommended to start with Data Center Reference Guide. This document provides a general overview of data center framework and the Sun best practices, technologies, and products applicable in implementing a data center architecture. The rest of the technical documents provide the relevant detailed technical information under each section title.  
 

Table of Contents

Data Center Design Principles Dynamic Infrastructure Data Center Virtualization Server Platforms Storage Disaster Recovery Security Management Applications Sun Data Center Services

 
 

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