This document summarizes Sun's Sun Fire X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 server systems. It provides details on their compute capabilities including support for AMD Opteron quad-core processors, I/O features, high availability options, and management features. It also discusses the benefits of AMD processors for performance, energy efficiency, and upgradeability. Customer examples highlight the reliability, scalability, and cost savings provided by these systems.

1. Sun's x64 Systems:
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Sun Fire X4100 M2 &
X4200 M2 Servers
A presentation for IT operations professionals
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Version – May 2008
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2. Compute
Sun Fire X4100 M2 Server  Up to 2 Quad or Dual-core AMD Opteron
(2000 series) Processors
1 Rack Unit, 2 Socket  8x DDR2-667 DIMM slots (4 per socket)
Enterprise, high-performance scalable system
I/O
 2x PCI-E slots
 4x Gigabit Ethernet ports
 2x SAS 2.5” disk drives with DVD/CD-RW
or 4-HDD no DVD option
High Availability
 Redundant hot-swap Power supplies and
Fans, hot-swap disk drives
–Network
 Hardware RAID 0 & 1
services, compute services,
application server, database, security, Management
development, financial, oil/gas, bio sci, EDA,  IPMI 2.0; remote KVM, floppy/CDROM with
MCAE dedicated 10/100 Ethernet port
 Solaris, Linux, Windows, or VMware
operating systems
Warranty
 3 year, Next Business Day
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3. Compute
Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server  Up to 2 Quad or Dual-core AMD Opteron
(2000 series) Processors
The Enterprise Workhorse  8x DDR2-667 DIMM slots (4 per socket)
I/O
 4x PCI-E slots
 1x PCI-X slots
 4x Gigabit Ethernet ports
 4x SAS 2.5” disk drives w/ DVD/CD-RW
High Availability
 Redundant hot-swap Power supplies and Fans,
hot-swap Disk Drives
 Hardware RAID 0 & 1
–2Socket, 2 Rack Unit Building block for
Management
network services, infrastructure services,  IPMI 2.0; remote KVM, floppy/CDROM with
application servers, compute services, dedicated 10/100 Ethernet port
databases, security  Solaris, Linux, Windows, or VMware operating
systems
Warranty
 3 year, Next Business Day
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4. What's New:
AMD Opteron Quad-Core
• Supported via X-options and ATO configurations
• AMD Opteron Model 2356 2.3GHz, 2MB, L3
• X-option Part Number: X4629A-Z
> includes CPU and pre-greased heat sink
> requires BIOS update
> http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/downloads.jsp
• ATO Part Number: 4629A-Z
> configurable via normal WebDesk process
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5. Sun Fire X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 Server
Benefits
• Enterprise focus
> Fastest 1- to 8-way x64 Servers in the Industry
> Design features: streamlining RAS for the x64 space
> Superior power/cooling advantage over Intel-based
systems
> Simplified remote management with no extra costs
• Sun Fire X4100 M2: Sun is the Only Tier-1 Server vendor
with a fully redundant 1RU Enterprise x64 server
• Binary compatibility and common architecture across
product line
• Runs virtually any operating system with the option of
Solaris OS, Linux, Windows or VMware
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6. System Management
• Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)
delivers state-of-the-art remote
management
• N1System Manager monitors system status
and allows remote automation
• Intelligent Lighting for fault identification and
minimized diagnostic errors
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7. Why Choose AMD?
World Class Performance
• Leading performing Quad-Core and High Efficiency Dual Core
AMD Opteron processors
• Fastest AMD processors
• Hardware assisted virtualization through AMD Virtualization
• Less bottlenecks, more efficient with AMD's Direct Connect
Architecture
• Seamless upgradeability from Dual Core to Quad Core
• Runs Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware operating
systems to match your application needs
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8. Why Choose AMD?
Unparalleled Energy Efficiency
• Energy efficient design to save on power and cooling costs
• Optimal flow design with front to back cooling
• AMD PowerNow! optimizes power consumption and heat
dissipation
• Improve performance and power management utilizing AMD's
Dual Dynamic Power Management
• Enhance energy efficiency with AMD CoolCore Technology
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9. Customer Successes
Sun Fire X4100
• “ Sun helps us deliver a scalable, reliable service that lets us
sleep at night because we know that we can rely on the stability
and performance of our Sun products. ”
— Matthew Leeds, Vice President of Operations, Gracenote
• “ Our aim was to deploy an IT infrastructure that would help to
integrate our business processes, make information available at
all levels of the company, and be sufficiently flexible to allow us to
innovate. As the backbone of our SAP implementation, we
deployed the high performing and scalable Sun Fire X4100
servers, along with the Sun StorageTek 3320 SCSI array from
Sun Microsystems. ”
— Mr. Jacob Mani, Vice President, Empee Distilleries
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10. Customer Successes
Sun Fire X4100 (continued)
• “ Going from zero to 300,000 members in our first two years put a
huge strain on our Web infrastructure. We needed to provide a
great customer experience and also planned to add social
networking features—and we found the Solaris 10 OS, Sun Fire
X2100 and Sun Fire X4100 servers to be the perfect foundation
for our future growth. The flexibility of open source technologies,
along with the unmatched security, stability, ease-of management
and scalability of Solaris 10 and Sun Fire x64 servers will enable
us to grow our business and our community to meet the growing
demand. ”
— Cyril Bouteille, Chief Technology Officer, Peerflix, Inc.
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11. Customer Successes
Sun Fire X4200
• “ I am happy with all the results: high availability, pricing and
redundancy. And all my end users are quite satisfied—no down
time or other platform problems. That’s the value of our
relationship with Sun today. ”
— Pascal Patesson, IT Director, DDB Belgium
• “ Running VMware on the Sun Fire X4200 platform has
fundamentally changed our business processes for the better, and
saved us a great deal of money in the process. ”
— Ron Herardian, Chief Systems Architect, Global System Services Corporation
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12. Get Quad Core
• Try & Buy
> http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/rules.jsp
> Try it for FREE for 60 days, then purchase for 25 – 40% off!
• Sun EvalConnection
> www.sunevalconnection.com
• Go Green
> http://www.sun.com/tradeins/index.jsp
> Get up to 20% trade-in allowance for returned older CPUs
which will be properly recycled
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