Sun Microsystems CP3260 manual Introduction, Overview

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Introduction

This chapter contains the following sections:

■Section 1.1, “Overview” on page 1-1

■Section 1.2, “Features” on page 1-2

■Section 1.3, “System Configurations” on page 1-8

■Section 1.5, “Hot-Swap Support” on page 1-14

■Section 1.6, “System Requirements and Options” on page 1-14

■Section 1.7, “Technical Support and Warranty” on page 1-15

1.1Overview

The Netra CP3260 blade server (FIGURE 1-1and FIGURE 1-2) is a high-performance single-board computer based on one UltraSPARC® T2 multicore processor and designed for high availability in a switched network computing environment. This blade server is compliant with Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA®, ATCA®) specifications (PICMG® 3.0 and PICMG 3.1).

The PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group) standards committee has developed the new ATCA (or PICMG 3.x) standard to address the issues posed by previous standards based on cPCI and cPSB (PICMG 2.x). The PICMG 3.x specification brought the following changes to the existing PICMG 2.x family of products:

■Larger board space (8U high compared to 6U for cPCI), which allows more features and processing power

■On-board power supplies deriving local power from redundant −48V power from the midplane (rather than separate power supplies)

■6-HP slot width, allowing greater component height

■Advanced Mezzanine card (AMC) support and options

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