Customer asset protection with standard SPARC/Solaris servers

With today’s business systems being crucial customer assets, Fujitsu continues to advancing its strategies for providing solutions for asset protection.

Systems upgrades occur for many reasons, including improved performance, cost reduction, or business consolidation. In every case Fujitsu seeks to

1. ensure asset protection through efficient reuse of customer applications,

2. provide business continuity through uninterrupted platform compatibility. SPARC Enterprise guarantees such asset protection and business continuity, through a range of server characteristics.

SPARC Enterprise has the highest binary compatibility of all UNIX servers, through application interface compatibility with Solaris OS and strict SPARC processor conformance. This is because consistent SPARC V9 architecture is used in all SPARC/Solaris servers.

SPARC Enterprise also ensures business continuity by imbedding data integrity mechanisms in all key processor circuits and by providing redundant capability for all important components.

With the same high binary compatibility and business continuity across all SPARC Enterprise models, cost-effective matched solutions covering all functions from Internet services to mission critical system operation, are much easier to implement. Plus, with the high reliability and availability technologies of Fujitsu coupled with the technological innovations of Sun Microsystems, they also operate much more reliably.

SPARC Enterprise Mid-range and High-end models (*1) are designed for mission critical support. High service availability and performance are sustained by use of the high performance and reliability profiled SPARC64™ VI processors. These processors also support large SMP configuration scalability, with multi-level partitioning and clustering.

The high throughput and business-oriented features, provided with UltraSPARC T1/T2/T2 Plus processors, enable the SPARC Enterprise Entry models (*2) to dramatically improve performance in Internet computing environments. In addition their low power/cost footprint makes them an Eco-efficient platform in densely racked server environments. T5140/T5240 now deliver the performance of other competitor’s mid-range class systems. These latest models are therefore the most cost-efficient Web and application server platforms available.

*1. Includes models M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000
*2. Includes models T1000, T2000, T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240

System investment efficiency in mission critical servers

In addition to asset protection and business continuity, SPARC Enterprise also delivers system investment efficiency through virtualization and scalability mechanisms.

Ongoing system investment efficiency requires that system life-cycle costs for operation, maintenance and upgrades are slimmed down. A major way of shrinking these costs is through server consolidation onto one or more SPARC Enterprise mid-range or high-end models. A single system can host the functions of multiple servers in separate partitions. SPARC Enterprise provides total security between partitions and the flexibility to dynamically reallocate resources between them to further improve investment efficiency.

Such flexible reconfiguration mechanisms reduce and delay the need for additional system investments. For example, spare CPU resources previously locked in separate systems can now be pooled and used by high workload applications, as and when needed. The high scalability, up to 128 CPU cores, 2TB memory, etc., also means that system performance can continue to be improved just by adding components, such as processors and memory, rather than undertake more expensive whole server addition or replacement.

Investment efficiency in Internet business

The compact SPARC Enterprise entry models provide a high throughput profile, best suited to Web and application servers. Their energy saving and parallel thread processing capabilities enable multiple web or application servers to be consolidated into one Eco-efficient server. Lower space requirements and running costs further reduce the cost profile over the systems they replace.

With outstanding throughput performance, SPARC Enterprise makes it easier to grow the business while keeping system investments low. This is especially important with surging Internet access counts; as additional investment in new servers can be reduced or even halted for a while. Scalability and throughput handling also help temper system costs even with predicted web access growth. They also enable smoother access to new business services.

SPARC Enterprise will keep your system investments at the lowest possible level making them a crucial investment in efficient business growth.

At the heart of SPARC Enterprise entry models are the multi-threading multi-core UltraSPARC T1/T2/T2 Plus processors. UltraSPARC T1 can handle up to 32 processes concurrently, while UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus handle up to 64. Multiple UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors can be stacked in a single chassis, significantly improving performance while minimizing server deployment space.

Given the throughput characteristics of Web and application servers, use of these processors provides very high and continuous performance. Their low power consumption and matched compact server design significantly reduces running costs and floor-space requirements.

Performance per watt and per rack unit are also greatly improved. Compared with mid-range servers from other venders, SPARC Enterprise T5140/T5240 has almost double the performance per watt and rack space used. SPARC Enterprise T5240 servers also almost double the performance of SPARC Enterprise T5220, with sustaining performance per watt and per rack at the low level.