NEW - Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Outperforms Existing Blade Servers with Better Throughput, Longevity, Energy Efficiency and Space Usage  

The Sun Blade 8000 Modular System accommodates up to ten 8-way, AMD Opteron dual-core server modules and is designed to handle power, cooling and I/O requirements over the next 5 years. Get ahead and stay ahead of the constant demand for more users, services and compute resources now, and in the future.

Key specifications

• 4 dual-core Opteron per server module
• 6 PCI-Express interfaces per server module
• 16 DIMM slots; up to 64GB memory per server module
• Full onboard Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Service Processor
• 6 hot-swap power supplies

Highlights

• Run 20 eight-way Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in a single rack—twice the processing power of rackmount options
• Up to 50 percent more space efficient and 40 percent more power-efficient than today’s rackmount servers
• Up to four times the memory and up to 20 times the I/O throughput of leading blade servers
•  Power and cooling cost savings of up to 62 percent compared to other blade and rackmount servers
• Smaller footprint, with increased density and cable aggregation plus reduced power and cooling demands
• High availability with all hot-swap modular components, including server and I/O modules
• Simple, low-cost integration into existing IT environments without proprietary components
• Runs the Solaris OS, Linux, and Windows side by side