
SPARC Enterprise Technology
Corporate Governance, non-stop business operations, system optimization, and environmental impact reductions, are just some of the latest business and operational demands on your systems. When planning or implementing new servers, technology central to your business operation requires careful scrutiny to ensure all such modern business demands are met and included. SPARC Enterprise meets all requirements right from the design and development of every component. These essential technologies are plainly explained in the five categories that follow.
System class marks indicate the following:
: Available with SPARC Enterprise High-end Servers M9000 & M8000
: Available with SPARC Enterprise Mid-range Servers M5000 & M4000
: Available with SPARC Enterprise Entry Servers M3000 & T5240 & T5140 & T5220 & T5120 & T2000 & T1000
Performance
- Multi-core multi-thread processor SPARC64™ VI

- High Throughput UltraSPARC T1

- JBus Interconnect

- Crossbar based high speed data transfer

- The advanced I/O interface boosts I/O performance

- Memory interleave improves large memory access

- Outstanding scalability - up to 128 processors

Business continuity
- SPARC64™ VI carry forward mainframe high reliability technology

- Reliability of UltraSPARC T1 Processor

- Memory mirror and memory patrol for improved system reliability

- Main LSI interface data protection

- High reliability is embedded in all components

- Server monitoring and administration by Extended System Control Facility (XSCF)

- Server monitoring and administration of SPARC Enterprise T series

- Whole system reliability supported by PRIMECLUSTER

Virtualization
- Hardware Partitioning of the highest reliability

- Dynamic Reconfiguration enables flexible system resource utilization

- High-Flexibility Software partitioning

- Server System Manager integrates Fujitsu server management

- SAN Boot improves availability, manageability and maintainability

Investment protection
- Solaris™, the most frequently used UNIX OS in the world

- Processor for SPARC V9 architecture

- SPARC64™ V Processor Roadmap

