Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Figure Intro-1: Sun Fire X4000 Server Family
Customers seeking a business edge can look to Sun to provide smart options for building a simple, secure, and
standardized IT infrastructure. The Sun Fire x64 family of servers enables standardization of the datacenter by
providing the unity of vertical scaling with the economies of horizontal scaling, while running any major OS and
32-bit/64-bit application. Sun continues its efforts to provide customers with solutions to help them realize the
benefits of a horizontal infrastructure (lower incremental CPU costand OS flexibility) while reducing hidden
costs and complexities.
Sun Fire X4600 OverviewThe Sun Fire X4600 is the third member of the Sun Fire X4000 server family. Like its two predecesors, the Sun
Fire X4100 and X4200 servers, the Sun Fire X4600 is designed to improve the economics of x64 systems while
setting new standards for performance, reliability, and energy efficiency. The Sun Fire X4600 is a high-
performance, single- or dual-core platform scalable up to 8 sockets in a 4RU package. The 8 sockets will scale
to 16 processor cores and up to ΒΌ terabyte of memory. It features redundant, hot-swappable fan modules and
redundant, hot-pluggable AC power supplies to enable increased availibility and simplified serviceability. It
supports an I/O feature set that includes four 10/100/1000 BaseT Gigabit Ethernet ports, a four-channel SAS
RAID 0/1 disk controller with integrated mirroring, video, USB ports (two front, two rear), and a dedicated serial
and 10/100BaseT Ethernet remote management port. For further expansion, the Sun Fire X4600 provides two
low-profile PCI-X slots and six low-profile PCI-E slots for high-performance application I/O. Up to eight single-
and dual-core AMD Opteron CPUs provide a flexible, high-performance growth path and investment protection
(32-bit applications are protected while still enabling seamless migration to 64-bit applications).
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