New line of x86 servers from Oracle Sun

Burn the sun-prophet verb!

Most recently, I wrote in the comments to Tech Days that Oracle and Sun have two options, “either pan or disappeared”, that is, either gain or absorption to the level of specialized solutions for Oracle databases (such as Oracle Sun DB Machine).

In the beginning, everything went like this, confusion and vacillation, the silence of Oracle, the complete absence of an adequate response from Sun representatives, vanity, delays in deliveries, even with pricing.

However, after some time, the Sun Fire x2270 M2 , an updated version to work with Intel Xeon 56xx series processors, is born.

More surprisingly, Oracle Sun began selling hard drive braces for these systems (which was not previously led by Sun, had to be searched on eBay).

As a result, for a fairly modest figure of $ 9,500, you can get 24 tredovuyu system on 12 cores Intel Xeon X5660 with 48 gigabytes of ECC REG DDR 3 1066 RAM, support and any hard drives that are sold (and not stock $ 700 for 1 TB or 1300 $ for 2 TB 7200 SATA hard drives) in stores.

However, just 2 days ago, a new series of x86-based systems from the Oracle Sun division was announced.

In addition to the expected updated version of the Sun Fire x4170 undercarriage labeled M2, the Sun Blade x6270 M2 blade , which is essentially a modified platform for working with Intel Xeon 56xx series processors, as well as storage blades , network adapters , switches and virtualizers for blades, There were some more interesting products.

Details under the cut.

The soul lies to startups ...

Sun Fire x4270 M2

It would seem an ordinary update of the previous line to support Intel Xeon 56xx, but there are two notable changes:

1. Combining branches 4270 and 4275 into one.

2. The 4270 M2 now has a choice of 24x2.5 "SATA-2 / SAS-2 or 12x3" SATA-2 / SAS-2 hard drives.

These are very good opportunities for startups! The official brochure promises more than 1 TB of Flash storage capabilities or, respectively, other diverse configurations (12 TB of RAID 10, not bad for a business venture?). Yes, and the cost will certainly be more profitable outdated Sun Fire x4540, but there is no specific price.

All this in 2RU with a fairly low power consumption (~ 600 watts with HDD, ~ 400 watts with SSD).

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But the enterprise gives the loot ...

Sun Fire x4470

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Well, ahem, in general, this is for those enterov who do not have a lot of $$$ on the account, and the park on Sun need to be transferred.

In fact, an interesting model, occupies 3RU, consumes about ~ 1200 watts, costs about $ 49,500 for an average configuration.

And the configuration is 64 threads on 32 Intel Xeon 75xx cores, 128 GB ECC REG DDR 3 1066 RAM, 2x 300 SAS-2 HDD.

Actually, to consolidate, shove a flash accelerator (s) into it, connect an external SAS-2 Storage and start any project, and if not enough, please come to the next paragraph.

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And here nothing is necessary ...

Sun Fire x4800

And this is my size, 5RU! The system takes the place of the previous monster (if anyone does not remember, x4450 with 4 4-core Xeon 74xx), however, not only the power affects the eyeball, but the price will probably hit the heart with the same discharge.

Electricity eats system under ~ 3 kilowatts. The cost will certainly be from $ 49,000 (this is the classic Sun-version of “just for ...”) for the most cropped version.

Configuration: 64 threads on 32 Intel Xeon X7550 cores, 1 TB ECC REG DDR 3 1066 RAM, 8x 300GB SAS-2 HDD and Hot-swappable PCI-E x8 slots (they are on the front of the system) and Hot-swappable ILOM (not could pass by).

That is, if you have a Sun-based storage rack, then you can safely put one such system to them, clog it with the below-described flash accelerators and process everything that was previously processed by one completely clogged blade platform, but now on one system!

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Network final

Sun Network 10GBE switch 72P

A 10 Gigabit switch for 72 non-blocking ports with a firewall and antidos worth $ 79,200 in the basic configuration of 8 SFP + ports and 16 sockets for 4x10 GbE or 1x40 GbE connections, with a throughput of 1.44 terabits per second and 1 billion packets per second and ILOM (yay!). How much are whistles perdelki not know, unfortunately.

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Post Scriptum

Optionally, you can purchase a Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe card for all servers, which is indispensable for working with databases and large ZFS systems. In short, this is a 96 GB Flash card (4x24GB SLC Flash) with IOPS of more than 100 thousand.



I’ll add an opinion, as a Sun x86 user of previous generations (before Oracle), the vector is right, time is later, but better late than never.

It can be seen that all PDFs have been drafted in a hurry (crooked images, in 4170M2 there is generally a picture from 2270M2), so the specifications may not be accurate. Most and prices still do not, put up only for almost the most expensive systems.

I hope for productive cooperation in the future with their luxury products.

If anyone wants to acquire similar systems in the European data center with an SLA of 99.9%, you are welcome in private