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Solutions
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Solutions at a Glance
Run More Efficiently with Server Virtualization
Key Benefits
- Significant reduction in maintenance costs and power consumption, with consolidation of up to 42:1 using VMware.
- Significant savings resulting from fewer server purchases
- Secure, robust virtualization by running the Solaris 10 OS and Logical Domains on CoolThreads servers—at no cost
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About This Solution
If you have more than 10 servers running applications for your business, virtualization can help you consolidate—and significantly lower your costs. Sun offers a range of innovative and scalable servers that can virtualize 10 to 50 operating environments into a single system. Furthermore, with reliable Sun compute-side storage (iSCSI and NAS), virtualization keeps your business running by protecting your servers from unexpected failures. Sun partners with a wide range of virtualization providers, including VMware and Microsoft, while also offering Sun's unique Logical Domains technologies.
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“At DigiTar, using Logical Domains and the Solaris 10 OS opens up new possibilities for consolidating mission-critical systems. Only Solaris 10 offers us the flexibility to alternate between lightweight and regimented virtualization technologies as our needs dictate.”
— Jason Williams, COO and CTO, DigiTar
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Business Issues
- Spiraling capital and operating expenses needed to maintain and expand the infrastructure
- The need to more quickly deploy servers for new applications and services, as requirements change
- Maintaining high availability to sustain and grow your business
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Business Results
- A 10-fold decrease in the number of servers needed, reducing capital expenditures
- A 10-fold—or higher—reduction in power and operating costs, and a decrease in costs for space, maintenance, and administration
- A virtual server can be deployed in minutes, adding flexibility and speeding your time to market
- Higher availability and less maintenance, to keep your business up and running
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Solution Sizing Guide
Sun offers this Server Virtualization Solution in a full range of performance levels, form factors, and pricing to match your needs.
Entry Level Choices |
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| Application |
Form Factor |
Sizing Needs |
Products |
| VMware ESX Server (virtualizes Windows Server, Linux, Solaris 10) |
Rack |
1-15 servers/applications |
From $2,465
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| 16-30 servers/applications |
From $8,395
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| 31-50 servers/applications |
From $7,495
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| Blade |
1-15 servers/applications |
From $3,995
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| 16-25 servers/applications |
From $3,295
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| Logical Domains to support multiple virtual machines running Solaris 10 |
Rack |
1-15 servers/applications |
From $10,995
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| 1-30 servers/applications |
From $17,995
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| Blade |
1-15 servers/applications |
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| External Storage Options |
Direct Attach |
SAS RAID: 365 GB to 36 TB |
From $6,430
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| IP Attach |
ISCSI RAID: 365 GB to 27 GB |
From $7,465
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Software Downloads
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Sun Innovations at Work
Sun x64 servers enable easy virtualization and consolidation of your Windows and Linux environment, up to 42:1:
- Grow as you need with the Sun Fire X4600 M2, which virtualizes 12 servers to 42 servers by just adding modular processors
- InfoWorld rates Sun Fire X4600 the Best High-Performance Server, calling it a tremendous platform for virtualization
- Pick your choice of systems from 1-processor to 8-processor, with quad core technologies, with easy to use remote management
- Mix and match Intel and AMD and Sparc blades in the same Sun Blade system, enabling consolidation and virtualization of diverse applications
- Sun offers uniquely compact 2U 4Psystems using the latest Intel quad core processors
A single Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, T5240 server or Sun Blade
T6320 server module:
- Can support up to 128 isolated domains per system
- Can replace eight older IBM X346 servers
- Requires eight fewer system administrators per deployed rack
- Can save more than $1 million in energy and virtualization costs over three years
- Using a combination of the on-chip 2 x 10 GbE interfaces and Sun 10 GbE NIC, you can reduce the number of network connections/ports by 3x and improve performance by more than 2.5x in order to consolidate your network infrastructure
- Logical Domains, Sun's powerful server virtualization and partitioning technology, provide another important feature with OS isolation, offering the flexibility to deploy multiple operating systems simultaneously on a CoolThreads server—up to 128 isolated OS instances, with
granularity at the CPU thread level.
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InfoWorld rates Sun Fire X4600 the Best High-Performance Server, calling it a tremendous platform for virtualization.
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 is a leading server for virtualization, according to CRN.
- "So what's the best server bar none to take on the virtualization beast? Let's just say you'd have a hard time coming up with a better virtualization work horse than the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220.
"Sun calls it the fastest server ever designed for virtualization. It's powered by the UltraSPARC T2 processor with up to eight cores and 64 threads. The server features over 1250 systems/rack, 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology and I/O directly on the chip.
"Need more reasons to get on board? How about unbeatable performance per watt, built-in open source, and free virtualization capabilities with Solaris Containers and Logical Domains (LDoms). Priced starting at $10,995, this is a virtual bargain."
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server shows breakthrough performance,
price/performance and power efficiency against HP servers.
- Running tests of system performance when
virtualizing a web application (Sun Java System Web Server) and database
application (MySQL), the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server delivered
2.4x higher performance with 3.7x better price/performance while
requiring only 50% of the space and consuming 73% less energy.
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Reference Materials
Here's the drill-down on Sun's virtualization solution:
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Success Stories
See how other small and medium businesses are moving ahead with Sun innovations.
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Here are just a few of the systems designed for small and medium businesses.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q:
What's the best server virtualization path for my business?
A:
Here's a good guideline for selecting your solution:
What do you want to virtualize?
- If you have a Solaris/SPARC environment or web server environment, consider Sun's Logical Domains technology with low-power, high-performance, CMT-based UltraSPARC servers
- If you have Windows and Linux applications, choose VMware Virtual Infrastructure or Microsoft virtualization technology running on Sun x64/x86 servers
How many servers would you want to virtualize or consolidate?
- Sun offers servers that can virtualize 10 to 50 operating environments into a single server. If you have more than 50, just use two or more Sun servers. The servers have redundant and hot-swappable power, cooling, and other technologies to ensure you have the highest reliability while you have many applications running in a single server.
Q:
Which servers are best for me—Rack or Blade?
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Here is a basic guide:
- Choose Blade servers if you require:
- Simplified maintenance, with quick and easy addition of new servers
- High density deployment, with at least 4 servers and expansion to 10 or more servers in the future
- Simplified cable management of multiple servers
- Choose Rack servers if you require:
- Servers of different compute capacity (1-processor, 2-processor, 4-processor, 8-processor)
- Only a few servers (less than 4) in one location
- More than 2 I/O slots in a server, especially when PCI-E or PCI-X cards are needed
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