Technology Dialogue

Virtual Tour of SPARC Enterprise M3000 - 7:00 mins. -

Sakae Majima, Development Director of the Server Systems Unit

28th October 2008

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Script

Hello, I'm Sakae Majima, Development Director of the Server Systems Unit at Fujitsu.
Today I'm pleased to take you on an introductory tour of our new entry server, SPARC Enterprise M3000 riding in my micro capsule.

We have developed SPARC Enterprise M3000 to meet specific requirements of the entry-level customer . So let's have a look at it. The power button is centrally located. Once we power on the system, the LED shows the system is active.
Error alerts are notified by another LED, at the bottom, which gives you failure indications at a glance. The first things you see are the DVD drive and 4 hard disk drives, here. Hard disk drives are hot swappable, enabling replacement without downtime, even in cases of failure.

There are two power supply units. The power supplies are redundant, and allow you to keep running with either power unit removed for replacement. And We have reduced power consumption to just 460Watts. Power cables can be connected to different power feeds. And failed power units are hot swappable and can be replaced without downtime. Right next door you will see four PCI express slots. There are also 4 Gigabit LAN ports and a SAS port. These LAN ports and serial ports are for system monitoring. As you can see we have been able to meet the customers’ requirements with a single M3000 in this compact 2U chassis.

Typically, removing running servers from a rack requires caution. Complex cable routing can lead to cables becoming unplugged and causing potential system outages. But the cable management arm of M3000 secures power and LAN cables, making mounting and removal of units in the rack much easier and safer. There are two fans in front. These are finely controlled ,based on altitude and ambient temperature. Precise control means quiet fans and stable internal temperatures without extra power consumption. You will notice how quiet M3000 is, with its 47dB profile in typical 25 degree Celsius environments. 50dB is considered a quiet office. Fans are also redundant and hot-swappable, part of our reliability focus for M3000 with 24 hour/365 day operation. Guess what the clear plastic is? We call this the air baffle. Underneath it sit the high heat components such as the processor and memory. The air baffle controls the air flow, efficiently cooling these components. The combination of the air baffle and precise fan control lets M3000 better protect the environment by minimizing power consumption while providing optimal cooling.

Here are the processor, memory slots, and I/O controllers on the motherboard. This is the brain, the SPARC64 VII processor. Cooling efficiency is further enhanced by the heat sink covering the processor. SPARC64 VII is a high performance quad-core multi-threaded processor running at 2.52 Gigahertz. Full mainframe-class technology is embedded to maximize system reliability. Here is the system controller. It controls data communication between memory, processor, and I/O. Eight memory slots are provided and can be filled with 4 or 8 memory cards. M3000 uses the same system control facility used on models M4000 to M9000, providing server monitoring and control. The system control facility uses a separate service processor. Therefore, even if the OS is down, power control and server monitoring are still available.

What do you think about the attention to detail in M3000? What we set out to develop was an entry model that achieved high performance and high reliability while delivering on Green IT needs. I hope you can now visualize the benefits SPARC Enterprise M3000 can bring to your datacenter. I believe the combination of M3000's entry-level profile, solid performance, low cost ECO-friendly operation, and great reliability, will provide fresh opportunities for new business, and create additional opportunities for our customers.
Thank you.

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