Monday 27 March 2017

Which is the ideal server to drive out cost and complexity in operation while delivering faster application response times?

The SPARC T5-2 is the  two-socket, three rack unit (3U) server based on the SPARC T5 processor.

 The SPARC T5-2 server comes with up to 1 TB of DDR3 1066 memory, eight PCIe 3.0 slots, and six slots supporting 2.5-inch HDD or SSD drives.

 Four 10 Gb Ethernet ports are built into the chassis.

The SPARC T5-2 server helps lower TCO by offering virtualization, security, and management technologies at no additional cost.

The SPARC T5-2 server provides a great combination of cost, performance, scalability, reliability and security.

The SPARC T5-2 is an ideal platform for business-critical applications, middleware and database workloads that demand high levels of performance without draining strapped IT budgets.

Processor supported:

The SPARC T5-2 server supports one or two SPARC T5 processors delivering exceptional single thread and multi-thread performance. With 16 cores and 16 memory slots per SPARC T5 processor, the SPARC T5-2 server provides high compute density with up to 32 cores and 1 TB of system memory all within a 3U enclosure.

The one processor system in Sparc T5-2 server also has upgrade capability for two processor system.

Memory configurations supported:

The Sun Sparc T5-2 server supports  three memory configurations includes 256 GB using 32 x 8 GB 1,066 MHz DDR3 DIMMs, 512 GB using 32 x 16 GB 1,066 MHz DDR3 DIMMs, 1 TB using 32 x 32 GB 1,066 MHz DDR3 DIMMs.

Virtualization technology:

This SPARC T5 processor-based server is capable of consolidating multiple virtual machines, from one virtual machine per core all the way to 128 virtual machines on a single system at no additional cost.

 Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris Containers are the built-in, no-cost virtualization technologies that come with every SPARC T5-2 server

Server management tool supported:

The Sun Sparc T5-2 server has full-function server management tools at no additional cost.
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (Oracle ILOM) utilizes industry-standard protocols to provide secure and comprehensive local and remote management.

Oracle ILOM features also include power management and monitoring, fault detection, and notification.

The integrated Oracle System Assistant guides system administrators through rapid server deployment, firmware updates, hardware configuration, and operating system installation with Oracle certified hardware drivers.

Operating system supported:

 Runs Oracle Solaris 11, for enhanced performance and functionality. Can also run Oracle Solaris 10, 9 and 8, with guaranteed binary compatibility and support for legacy applications.

Storage supported:

The Sparc  T5-2 server supports up to six 300 GB or 600 GB 2.5 in. SAS drives or 100 GB, 300 GB or 400 GB SSD drives, optional Sun Flash Accelerator F40 PCIe Card or F80 PCIe Card and one slimline SATA DVD+/-RW as Internal DVD for internal storage.

The Sparc  T5-2 server also supports best-in-class, innovative storage, hardware, and software solutions for external storage.

Power supply :

The Sparc  T5-2 server has  two hot-swappable AC 2,060 W redundant (1+1) power supplies. 

Power management features enable optimal resource utilization and power efficiency

The Sun Sparc T5-2 server has smart and simple design offers greater energy and space optimization, increasing asset utilization while reducing operating costs.

Running Oracle Solaris, the SPARC T5-2 server delivers 2.3x the throughput over previous generation servers, 20 percent improvement in single thread performance, and twice the I/O bandwidth.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides  simplicity in the deployment of all enterprise workloads, enabling reduction of business risk, delivering savings in management costs, and unlocking flexibility to grow the business to any scale, while maximizing reliability and uptime.

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Sunday 26 March 2017

System architecture of Sun Sparc M3000 server

In SPARC Enterprise M3000 server the interconnect, processors, memory subsystem, and I/O subsystem work together to create a scalable, high-performance platform ready to address server consolidation needs.

The SPARC Enterprise M3000 server features two rack units (RU) and supports one processor chip and up to 64 GB of memory. 

The SPARC64 VII/VII+ (dual-core or quad-core) processor chip is mounted on the motherboard. 

The I/O subsystem of the SPARC Enterprise M3000 server features four short internal PCI Express slots, four internal disk drives, one internal DVD drive, and an external SAS port for attaching additional storage or tape device units. 

Two power supplies and two fan units power and cool the server.

System Interconnect:

The Jupiter system interconnect fosters high levels of performance, scalability, and reliability for SPARC Enterprise M 3000  server.

A single system controller within SPARC Enterprise M3000 servers provides point-to-point connections between CPU, memory, and I/O subsystems.

Processors:

SPARC Enterprise M3000 servers support SPARC64 VII+ processors.

 The SPARC64 VII/VII+ processor provides a quad-core implementation with a faster clock speed and a reduction in size using 65 nm fabrication.

Memory:

SPARC Enterprise M3000 servers support DDR-II DIMMs with 2-way memory interleave. 

The SPARC Enterprise M3000 server supports up to 64GB of memory using 8GB DIMM. ECC protection is implemented for data stored in main memory.

Memory patrol: 

Memory patrol periodically scans memory for errors. This proactive function prevents the use of faulty areas of memory and improving system reliability.

Memory Extended-ECC:

The memory Extended-ECC function of these servers provides single-bit error correction, supporting continuous processing despite events such as burst read errors that are sometimes caused by memory device failures

PCI Express:

The Sun Sparc Enterprise M 3000 has 4x PCI Express (x8, full-height, short) physical layer (PCI Express PHY) ASIC to manage the implementation of the PCI Express protocol.

Storage:

The Sun Sparc Enterprise M 3000 has up to four 600GB internal, 2.5in. SAS HDDs. 

Data on the internal disk can be further protected using the built-in HW RAID support.

Power  Supply:

The SPARC Enterprise M3000 server supports redundant power supplies. The power supplies support either AC or DC input

The Sparc Enterprise M3000 provides a powerful entry-level solution to mission critical computing, with the high-end benefits of virtualization, automation and the deployment flexibility of a UNIX application portfolio, usable in both A/C and D/C powered data centers. 

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Which is an ideal server for large scale consolidation and database workloads?


The SPARC T4-4 is the most powerful server in the T-Series product family delivering unsurpassed single and multi-thread throughput performance.

The SPARC T4-4 powered by the SPARC T4 processor is a versatile, high performance, highly scalable four-socket server, delivers outstanding single and multi-thread throughput performance and boasts speed, security, and availability in a compact 5 RU design.

The SPARC T4-4 optimized for data-intensive and enterprise workloads.

The SPARC T4-4 server supports 64 DDR3 memory DIMM slots, sixteen Express Module form factor PCI-Express Gen2 slots and up to eight 2.5-inch hard disks.

Processor supported:

The SPARC T4-4 server supports up to four SPARC T4 processors running at 3.0 GHz, and up to 256 threads of computing in a power and supported with Eight floating-point units.

The Sparc T4processor has new on-chip Encryption Instruction Accelerators with direct non-privileged support for 16 industry-standard cryptographic  algorithms plus random number generation such as  AES, Camellia, CRC32c, DES, 3DES, DH, DSA, ECC, Kasumi, MD5, RSA, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512  in each of the eight cores.

The Sparc T4processor supports shared L3, 4MB cache and eight cores with a private L2 128K cache.

The SPARC T4 processor incorporates new features such as Out-Of-Order (OOO) execution of instructions, branch prediction using a simple neural net algorithm, cryptographic processing.

Memory:

The SPARC T4-4 server supports a maximum of 2 TB with 32 GB DIMMs.

The SPARC T4-4 server supports 64 DDR3 memory DIMM slot and  4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB DIMMs in this 5U server.

Storage:

The SPARC T4-4 server supports up to eight 300 GB or 600 GB, 2.5 in., 10,000 RPM SAS drives, or 100 GB, 300GB or 400 GB SSDs for internal storage.

Oracle  Sparc T4-4 server offers a complete line of best-in-class, innovative storage, hardware, and software solutions.

Power Supply:

Four hot-swappable AC 2,060 W redundant (2 + 2) power supplies

RAS Features:

Hot-pluggable disk drives

Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans
  
Environmental monitoring
  
Extended ECC, error correction and parity checking memory
  
Easy component replacement
  
Integrated disk controller with RAID 0 and 1
  
Electronic prognostics

Operating system:

The Sun Sparc T4-4 server runs Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 with guaranteed binary compatibility and support for legacy applications.

Oracle Solaris has technologies such as DTrace, ZFS, Containers, and Predictive Self-
Healing, making it the most safest and scalable UNIX operating system available

Virtualization:

Single SPARC T4-4 server has built-in, no-cost Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris Containers provide the flexibility and power of 128 virtual systems that enable organizations to extract maximum value from IT assets while creating an infrastructure capable of rapidly adapting to today’s dynamic business environment single SPARC T4-4 server.

Oracle VM Server for SPARC provides highly efficient, enterprise-class virtualization capabilities by creating partitions called logical (or virtual) domains.

Logical domain and the live migration feature allows customers to quickly and easily migrate running Oracle Solaris 10 or Oracle Solaris 11 domains from one physical server to another, eliminating application outages and server downtime.

Pre-installed   software:

The SPARC T4-4 server comes pre-installed with Solaris 11, Oracle VM for SPARC, and Oracle Electronic Prognostics 1.2.

High  data Security:

Cryptographic features of the SPARC T4 processor and Oracle Solaris security provides all the unmatched enterprise class features that the user can depend on to protect the applications.

New encryption instruction accelerators are enabling security conscious organizations such as telecommunications, healthcare, financial services and the public sector to support thousands of simultaneous secure web connections.

Flexible and  highly efficient design:

The Sun Sparc T4-4 server has smart and simple design occupying 5 RU of rack space,  supports two or four 8-core 3.0 GHz processors, up to eight hard disk drives, and 2TB of memory based on 32GB DIMMs, increasing asset utilization while reducing operating costs while providing greater energy and space optimization.

SPARC T4-4 server nodes are the building blocks for fault tolerant Oracle SPARC SuperCluster servers. 

The SPARC T4-4 server combines high single-threaded performance with massive system throughput and I/O making it uniquely qualified for demanding applications and large-scale server consolidation.

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Sunday 12 March 2017

Which is the ideal server for consolidated Tier 1 and Tier 2 workloads?


The SPARC T4-2 server is the latest two-socket system in the Oracle SPARC T-series line of servers designed for business critical applications and database workloads.

The SPARC T4-2 server, powered by the SPARC T4 processor is optimized to deliver transaction and Web services, including Java™ 2 Platform and Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform) technology application services, Enterprise application services such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and distributed databases.

Processor:

The SPARC T4-2 server is equipped with two SPARC T4 processors and 32 DIMM slots, which can support a total of 1 TB of memory when populated with 32 GB DIMMs. 

Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server utilizes the new SPARC T4 server processor, offering a five times increase in single-thread performance over its predecessor, the SPARC T3.

To achieve this five times increase in single-thread performance the SPARC T4 processor utilizes eight complex cores, deeper pipelines, out-of-order execution, sophisticated branch prediction, dedicated 128K L2 cache per core, a shared 4MB L3 cache, and a higher frequency 2.85GHz clock.

The Oracle Sparc T4-2 server has outstanding performance and systems throughout in an affordable 3U rack enterprise-class design.

Storage and Network connectivity:

The SPARC T4-2 delivers highly expandable internal storage and network connectivity as the server has room for a combination of six hard disk drives or solid state drives and ten PCI Express card slots.

 It also supports large Flash storage configurations that accelerate I/O intensive application performance, improves business response times and increases productivity while reducing power and space.

OS supported:

The SPARC T4-2 server comes integrated at no additional cost with Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris. The SPARC T4-2 supports both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 with guaranteed binary compatibility and support for legacy applications.

Virtualization:

Virtualization technology with Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris Containers improves utilization and reduces operational overhead.

The SPARC T4-2 server offers built-in, no-cost virtualization technologies that enable organizations to extract maximum value from IT assets while creating an infrastructure capable of rapidly adapting to today’s dynamic business environment.

High levels of security:

The OracleSparc T4-2 server has integrated on-chip cryptographic acceleration which provides high levels of security without sacrificing application performance.

Oracle SPARC T4-2 servers feature a compact, expandable 3RU rack mount chassis, giving companies the flexibility to scale processing and I/O requirements without wasting precious space.

This is a  mid-range, thin chassis (3U), Web and Application server package provides enhanced space, energy savings, and high performance.

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Which is the first 256-thread general-purpose server?


Oracle SPARC T3-2 servers feature a compact, expandable 3RU rack mount chassis, giving companies the flexibility to scale processing and I/O needs without wasting precious space.

With support for up to 512 threads, large memory, cryptographic acceleration, and integrated on-chip I/O technology, these servers represent an even further departure from traditional system designs.

SPARCT3-2 servers are ideal for providing high throughput within significant power, cooling, and space constraints.

High  Performance Processor:

The SPARC T3-2 server supports two SPARC T3 processors.

With greater I/O and internal disk, typical workloads include demanding midtier application server deployments or Web-tier and application-tier consolidation and virtualization projects requiring maximum uptime with future growth and integration into diverse environments.

With up to eight integrated cryptographic accelerators on each SPARC T3 processor, there simply is no need to send a plain text on the network or store plain text in storage systems.

SPARC T3-2 server supports many more cryptographic operations per second than competitive systems with dedicated cryptographic accelerator cards—all with minimal impact to system overhead.

SPARC T3-2 servers extend this breakthrough compute and memory density, delivering up to 256 threads in a single system, while typically consuming less power than an equivalently configured previous-generation system.

SPARC T3-2 servers deliver high I/O bandwidth by providing two PCIe root complexes associated with each SPARC T3 processor.

High Reliability:

Reliability is key to keeping applications available and costs down.

With the greater levels of integration provided by a SoC design Sparc T3-2 server provide higher levels of reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).

 Lower power consumption and higher performance per watt greatly reduce generated heat loads and the associated issues they cause.

Technologies such as Oracle's Solaris Predictive Self Healing are integrated with the hardware and help keep systems available.

Easy to Manage:

Each SPARC T3-2 server provides an Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM 3.0) service processor, compatible with Oracle’s x64 servers.

Integrated Lights Out Manager provides a command-line interface (CLI), a Web-based graphical user interface (GUI), and Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) functionality to aid out-of-band monitoring and administration.

The SPARC T3-2 server offers virtualization technologies that enable organizations to extract maximum value from IT assets while creating an infrastructure capable of rapidly adapting to today’s dynamic business environment.

SPARC T3-2 server supports a maximum of 128 logical domains, allowing organizations to consolidate workloads and maximize their use of computing platforms, simplifying their IT infrastructure and bringing new levels of efficiency, manageability, and agility to the data center.

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