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Sun fire x4140, x4240, x4440 server customer presentation
1. Sun's New x64 AMD
Opteron-Based Servers
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Title
Date
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2. Agenda
● Sun's Server Strategy
● Customer Challenges
● Delivering Customer Value
● Sun's New AMD Opteron-
based Servers
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3. Sun's Systems Strategy
Software Servers
™
xVM
Ops Center
Network.com
Services Storage
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4. The Industry’s Fastest, Most Scalable, Most
Energy Efficient Systems
Breakthrough Expanded Enhanced
Sun Fire CoolThreads
TM
Sun Fire x64 Sun Fire UltraSPARC
Servers Servers Servers
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5. More Choices. Greater Flexibility.
x64 Architectures for Data Center Standardization
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6. Solaris 10 For HP, Dell, IBM and Sun
• Dynamic Tracing (DTrace)
• Virtualization
• Multi-level Security
• Predictive Self-Healing
• ZFS
• Over 180 Open Source Apps
• Over 700 x64 Systems
• Compatibility Guarantee
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7. The Buildout Demands Innovation
New Consumers, On the
New Content, Network
New Devices,
New Services
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8. What We're Hearing From Customers
Businesses Need
• More Performance – bring products
and services to market faster
• Higher Density – to grow infrastructure
on demand
• Increased Power Efficiency and
Utilization – to reduce power and
cooling costs
• Ease of Management – to monitor and
manage systems locally or remotely
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9. Sun Delivers Open Systems
Open Platform
Innovate at all levels of the system
Change the economic equation
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10. Value of Innovation
• Outstanding Performance
• Efficiency
> Maximum compute density
> Eco-efficient
• Simplified System Management
> State-of-the-art remote control
> Ease of Serviceability
• Virtualization Support Built-in
• Common System Attributes
> Simplify installation, deployment and training
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11. Sun’s x86 Product Line
Sun Fire Sun Blade 6048 Sun Blade X8450
Sun Blade
X6250
Enhanced w/ Sun Grid 6000
Quad-Core
Sun Blade 8000
Rack Sun Blade 8000 P
System
Modular System
Enhanced w/ Sun Fire X4600 M2 Sun Fire X4500
Quad-Core
Sun Fire X4450
Sun Fire X4150
New w/
Sun Fire X4140 Sun Fire X4240 Sun Fire X4440
Quad-core
Enhanced w/
Quad-Core Sun Fire X2200 M2 Sun Fire X4100 M2 Sun Fire X4200 M2
Sun Ultra 20 M2
Sun Fire X2100 M2
Sun Ultra 24 Sun Ultra 40 M2
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12. Why AMD?
• Better floating point performance and better throughput
for high performance applications
• Better power efficiency at the system level (no FB-DIMM)
• More scalability (Up to 8-sockets)
• Better memory performance for real world, memory
intensive applications due to less memory latency with
onboard memory controller
• Simple road map
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13. Expanded Strategic Alliance
Solving Customers Biggest IT Problems:
Scalability, Performance and Efficiency
• Sun is a Windows Server OEM and a single source for today’s three
leading server operating systems
• Sun and Microsoft to enable cross-platform virtualization
> Simplifies Solaris on Windows and Windows on Solaris virtualization
• Joint investment in Interoperability Center on Microsoft's main campus to
demonstrate customer/partner benefits
• Expanded agreement delivers on Sun partners’ need for combined
Sun/Microsoft customer solutions
• Pre-install available on Sun Fire X4140, X4240, and X4440 servers
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14. Expanded Strategic Relationship
Solving Customers’ Biggest IT Challenges:
Scalability, Performance and Efficiency
• Sun now offers and supports the VMware Infrastructure software suite
• Sun customers gain deployment flexibility across leading server
operating systems: Solaris, Windows, Linux, and VMware
• Sun partners enabled to design and ship solutions with
Sun systems, storage, and software to meet customer virtualization
requirements
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15. MySQL – Available Today On Sun x64
Systems
• MySQL will continue to be
developed and optimized for
Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc.
• Solaris will continue to be
optimized for Oracle, Sybase,
PostgreSQL, and MySQL
• All software will continue to be
optimized for HP, Dell, IBM,
Fujitsu, and Sun
• Available on Sun x64 systems
today!
MySQL – growing with Sun!
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16. Sun Fire x64 Systems:
Fastest, Most Reliable,
& Energy Efficient
x64 Servers
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17. x64 Server Strategy
Bringing Innovation to Industry Standards
• Innovation: Bring market
changing, Sun designed advanced
data center products – multi
platform, multi OS
• Portfolio: Introduce industry-
leading, Sun-designed enterprise-
class x64 servers and workstations
• Partner: Continue to build industry
ecosystem for x64 computing
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18. Sun Fire X4140 & Compute
X4240 Server ●
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2x AMD Opteron Rev F Sockets
Dual-Core & Quad-Core
The New Enterprise Workhorse ● 16x DDR2 DIMM slots (64GB max)
I/O (1U/2U)
● (3x/6x) PCIe (x4, x8 & x16)
● (8x/16x) SAS 2.5” disk drives (via PCIe)
● 4x Gigabit Ethernet ports
● DVD-RW
Availability
2-Socket General Purpose ● Hot-swap Disks
Enterprise Compute Platform ● Hardware RAID 0,1,5,6 (via PCIe)
● Hot-swap redundant PSUs, 1+1
Maximum Density ● Hot-swap redundant Fans
Maximum Usability Management
Maximum Reliability ● Sun ILOM Service Processor
● Solaris, Linux, or Windows
xVM
Ops Center
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19. Competitive Landscape: Sun Fire X4140
Competitors → Sun HP Dell IBM
Features ↓ Fire X4140 DL365 G5 PE SC1435 X3455
Rack Space 1U 1U 1U 1U
CPU Type AMD Dual & Quad AMD Quad AMD Dual & Quad AMD Dual
Max Socket 2 Sockets 2 Sockets 2 Sockets 2 Sockets
DIMMs / Chassis 16 DDR2 8 DDR2 8 DDR2 12 DDR2
Max Memory 64GB 32GB 32GB 48GB
Disk Drives 8x 2.5” SAS 6x 2.5” SAS/SATA 2x 3.5” SAS/SATA 2x 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
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20. Competitive Landscape: Sun Fire X4240
Competitors → Sun HP Dell IBM
Features ↓ Fire X4240 DL385 G5 R805 X3655
Rack Space 2U 2U 2U 2U
CPU Type AMD Dual & Quad AMD Quad AMD Dual & Quad AMD Dual
Max Socket 2 Sockets 2 Sockets 2 Sockets 2 Sockets
DIMMs / Chassis 16 DDR2 8 DDR2 16 DDR2 16 DDR2
Max Memory 64GB 32GB 128GB - 8GB DIMMs 64GB
Disk Drives 16x 2.5” SAS 8x 2.5” SAS/SATA 2x 2.5” SAS/SATA 8x 2.5” SAS
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 RAID 0, 1, 5 RAID 0, 1 RAID 0, 1, 5, 6
GbE Ports 4x GbE 2x GbE 4x GbE 2x GbE
Expansion Slots 6x PCIe 4x PCIe 4x PCIe 4x PCIe
Hot Swap PSUs 2x 1050W No, 2x 1000W No, 2x 700W 2x 835W
Hot Swap Fans Yes No (Redundant Only) No (Redundant Only) Yes
Management ILOM 2 iLO 2 IPMI 2.0 IPMI 2.0
Warranty 3 Yr NBD 3 Yr NBD 3 Yr NBD 3 Yr NBD
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21. Target Industries and Applications – 2S
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Industries • Primary Applications
> Primary > Web Server (Low End)
– Financial Services
– Telco, SP, Media & > IT Infrastructure
Broadband (Security, DNS, Proxy,
– Government Caching, Firewall,
– Education Gateway)
– Manufacturing > HPTC/Grid Computing
> Secondary > SANs
– Oil & Gas
– Life Sciences
> Messaging/Collaboration
> File/Print
> Video Streaming
> OLTP
> Virtualization
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22. Sun Fire X4440 Server Compute
The New Standard of Versatility ● 4x AMD Opteron Rev F Sockets
● Quad-Core or Dual-Core AMD Opteron
Processors
● 32x DDR2 DIMM slots (128GB max)
I/O
● 6x PCIe slots (one x16, one x4 and four x8)
● 8x SFF SAS 2.5” disk drives (via PCIe)
● 4x Gigabit Ethernet ports
4-Socket 2-RU Enterprise Class ● DVD-RW
Data Center Compute Engine Availability
● Hot-swap Disks
Maximum Flexibility ● Hardware RAID 0,1,5,6 (via PCIe)
Maximum Efficiency ● Hot-swap redundant PSUs, 1+1
Maximum Performance ● Hot-swap redundant Fans
Management
● Sun ILOM Service Processor
● Solaris, Linux, or Windows
xVM
Ops Center
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23. Competitive Landscape: Sun Fire X4440
Competitors → HP Dell IBM
Sun Fire X4440 Dell PE R905
Features ↓ DL585 G2/G5 PE6950 X3755
Rack Space 2U 4U 4U 4U 4U
CPU Type AMD Dual/Quad AMD Dual/Quad** AMD Dual/Quad AMD Dual AMD Dual
Max Socket 4 Sockets 4 Sockets 4 Sockets 4 Sockets 4 Sockets
DIMMs / Chassis 32 DDR2 32 DDR2 32 DDR2 16 DDR2 32 DDR2
Max Memory 128GB 128GB 128GB 64GB 128GB
8x2.5” SAS or
Disk Drives 8x 2.5” SAS 8x 2.5” SAS 5x 3.5” SAS 4x 3.5” SAS
5x3.5” SAS
RAID 0, 1, 5, 10,
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 RAID 0, 1, 5, 6,+ RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 RAID 0,1,5,6, 10 RAID 0, 1, 10
50
GbE Ports 4x GbE 2x GbE 4x GbE 2x GbE 2x GbE
2x PCIe, HT, 2x
Expansion Slots 6x PCIe* 7x PCIe, 2x PCIx 7x PCIe Up to 7x PCIe
PCIx
Hot Swap PSUs 2x 1050W 2x 1300W 2x1100W 2x 1570W 2x 1500W
Hot Swap Fans Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Management ILOM iLO 2 IPMI 2.0*** IPMI 2.0*** IPMI 2.0***
* 1 PCIe slot is occupied by the SAS controller
**HP DL585 G2 has dual-core only, while the HP DL585G5 has quad-core only
***Dell and IBM systems have remote management as an add-on option, while all Sun systems comes standard with remote management
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24. Target Industries and Applications – 4S
●
Industries • Primary Applications
> Primary > Network Services
– Service Providers Consolidation
– BIDW
– Database > Application Server
– Finance > Database Server
– Manufacturing > Web Server (Large)
> Secondary
> Business Processing
– Oil & Gas
– Life Sciences > Decision Support
– Government > Video Rendering
> Server Consolidation
> ERP
> CRM
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25. Sun Fire X4140/X4440 Server Scalability
Same chassis from dual core to quad core
2-Cores 4-Cores 8-Cores 16-Cores 32-Cores
Sun Fire X4440
2U - 4XQC
Sun Fire X4440
2U - 2x QC, 4xDC
AMD Opteron™
Sun Fire X4440
2U - 2xDC processors
Seamless Transition to
Quad-core
Designed to maximize
server density and minimize
transitions
Sun Fire X4140
Sun Fire X4140 Sun Fire X4140 1U - 2x QC
1U - 2x DC
1U - 1x DC
Sun Fire X4600 M2
4U - 8x QC (1H08)
Sun Fire X4600 M2
4U - 8x DC
Sun Fire X4600 M2
4U - 4x DC
Sun Fire X4600 M2
4U - 2x DC
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26. AMD Opteron™ Processor Advantage
• Common Core Strategy • Driving lower power consumption
• Same Socket Infrastructure • Greater data center efficiency
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•Native multi-core designs
• Rapid Virtualization Indexing
•Direct Connect Architecture
• AMD-V™ Extended Migration
•No legacy bottlenecks
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27. Why Buy From Sun?
System Design:
• Scalable and flexible to achieve
better
> Performance - Increase
productivity with world record
performance
> Efficiency - Achieve maximum
performance while saving on
energy, space and cooling
> Manageability - Lower IT
staffing and maintenance costs
> Longevity - Enjoy years of
uninterrupted service with Sun
Fire servers and Solaris OS
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28. Sun Fire X4140/X4240 Servers – Recommended Services
• Take advantage of Sun's world-class heterogeneous support
> Integrated HW and OS support for Solaris™ OS as well as service plans for
Windows, Linux and VMware OSs
> 4 levels of service to best match the criticality of your system
> OS support with purchase of Solaris Subscription – provides latest Solaris
updates, named releases, software updates and other Sun support
> Hardware Only support available for system coverage
• Optimize High Performance Computing (HPC) applications
> HPC Quick Start Services and Sun Datacenter Express Services for HPC
> Architect, deploy, and manage HPC environment for faster deployment,
reduced operational cost and complexity, and reduced risk
• Optimize datacenter power, space and cooling with Sun Eco Services Suite
> Improve existing infrastructure, reduce costs and increase system stability
• Improve expertise and accelerate productivity
> Learning Services: consulting, courseware, certification
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29. Sun Fire X4440 Server – Recommended Services
• Take advantage of Sun's world-class heterogeneous support
> Leverage integrated services (Sun System Packs) – price incentive for
purchasing server + support at point of sale
> Integrated HW and OS support for Solaris™ OS as well as service plans for
Windows, Linux and VMware OSs
> OS support with purchase of Solaris Subscription – provides latest Solaris
updates, named releases, software updates and other Sun support
> Hardware Only support available for system coverage
• Reduce IT costs by as much as $2M/year, achieve 99.99% availability, improve
utilization by 80% with Sun Virtualization Suite of Services
> Plan, design and deploy a virtualized IT infrastructure with minimized risk
> Realize business benefits quickly with implementation assistance
• Optimize datacenter power, space and cooling with Sun Eco Services Suite
> Improve existing infrastructure, reduce costs and increase system stability
• Improve expertise and accelerate productivity
> Learning Services: consulting, courseware, certification
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30. Try Sun Risk-Free at No Cost for 60 days
• Breakthrough program for a
breakthrough product
• 60 day no cost, no risk evaluation
• No hassle, Web-based application,
receive your system within 5 days
• At the end of period, either buy
or return
• Over 2,000 units shipped,
60% to new customers
• Special Offer: Try Sun systems for free;
then buy at 25% off
> Offer valid Jan. 15 – June 30, 2008
Sign Up Now:
http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy
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31. Key Takeaways
1 Sun continues its x64 momentum by bringing leading
system design innovation to customers
Sun’s x64 systems are designed for performance to run
2 a broad range of applications more efficiently, and to
bring products and services to market more quickly
To grow the IT infrastructure on-demand and
3 reduce power and cooling costs, Sun’s systems
maximize density and power efficiency
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33. Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor
Here's What It Gives You:
• Independent Dynamic Core optimizes performance and
power to match the compute load
• Dual Dynamic Power Management enables cores for
optimum performance and reduced power consumption
• AMD CoolCore Technology reduces processor energy
consumption & heat
• Consistent socket design minimizes datacenter churn for
upgrades to future Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors
• Integrated memory controller and AMD HyperTransport
links eliminate performance bottlenecks
• Support-proven, lower-power DDR2 memory technology
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