Sun Fire X4500
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The Sun Fire X4500 data server (code-named Thumper) integrates server and storage technologies. It was announced in July, 2006[1] and is part of the Sun Fire server line from Sun Microsystems.
In July 2008, Sun announced the X4540 model, which doubles the processing power of the X4500.
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[edit] Hardware
The Sun Fire X4500 supports 2 dual-core AMD Opteron processors. With forty-eight 1000 GB SATA drives, it provides 48 TB of storage in four rack units.
The Sun Fire X4540 supports 2 quad-core AMD K10 (Barcelona) processors. The new model also uses PCI Express IO technology, and added a compact flash disk slot for booting the operating system.
[edit] Supported Operating Systems
- Solaris 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- Rocks Cluster Distribution[2]
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard and Enterprise)[3]
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008[4]
[edit] Solutions using X4500/X4540
- Sun Streaming System[5]
- Sun Visualization System[6]
- Sun Secure Data Retrieval Server (SDRS)[7]
- Sun Constellation System[8]
- Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value ("VTL Value") System[9]
- Sun Scalable Storage Cluster[10]
- Luminex Virtual Tape Solution for IBM zSeries mainframes via FICON[11]
- SAS Intelligence Storage[12]
- Greenplum's Sun Data Warehouse Appliance[13]
- ipConfigure - Enterprise Video Surveillance[14]
- G10 Enterprise Video Manager[15]
- Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup[16]
- Cypress Storage Appliance[17]
- Internet Archive[18]
Forty-two Sun Fire X4500 data servers are used to provide Lustre cluster filesystem storage in the TSUBAME supercomputer,[19] which was number 7 on June 2006 TOP500 list.
[edit] TPC-H World Record
In October 2007, Sun submitted TPC-H result with an X4500 running Sybase IQ. At US $8.11/QphH, it archived the best price/performance among the 1,000 GB results.[20]
[edit] References
- ^ "Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: The Rise of the General Purpose System". Sun Microsystems. http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_rise_of_the_general. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
- ^ "on an X4500: ROCKS:searching for USB key on device ... and reboots". https://lists.sdsc.edu/pipermail/npaci-rocks-discussion/2007-June/025487.html. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
- ^ "Performance of a Sun X4500 under Windows, NTFS and SQLserver 2005". Jim Gray, Microsoft. http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/papers/JHU_thumper.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- ^ "Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 Servers". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1107/820-3781.html. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ^ "Sun Streaming System - Overview". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/servers/networking/streamingsystem/. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- ^ "Sun Visualization System - Overview". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/servers/cr/visualization/index.xml. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- ^ "Sun Microsystems Launches Unique Data Management Appliance for Communication Service Providers". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-06/sunflash.20070607.1.xml. Retrieved 2007-06-07.
- ^ "Sun Constellation System". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/SunConstellation_start.jsp. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ "Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/storagetek/tape_storage/tape_virtualization/vtl_value/. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
- ^ "Sun Scalable Storage Cluster - Lustre on Thumper". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/servers/cr/scalablestorage/. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
- ^ "Universal Storage Networking featuring FICON and ESCON mainframe channel gateways, connectivity and data storage products". Luminex. http://www.luminex.com/products/channel_gateway/firex4500.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- ^ "The Simplicity of Achieving High-End Performance at a Low Cost". SAS Institute Inc.. http://www.sas.com/ctx/whitepapers/whitepapers.jsp?code=362. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
- ^ "Greenplum Data Warehouse Appliance". Greenplum. http://www.greenplum.com/partners/data_warehouse_appliance/. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
- ^ "ipConfigure Home Page". ipConfigure. http://www.ipconfigure.com. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
- ^ "EVM Highlights". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/videosurveillance/g10_evm_v2.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
- ^ "Sun Fire X4500 as a Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/sfx4500_mediaserver.jsp. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
- ^ "Cypress: SUN X4540 and ZFS+". Greenbytes. http://www.green-bytes.com/. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ^ "The Internet In A Box". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
- ^ "Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0507/820-2187.html. Retrieved 2007-06-21.
- ^ "TPC-H Details". Transaction Processing Performance Council. http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107101502. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
[edit] External links
- Sun Fire X4500 Server
- Sun Fire X4540 Server
- Sun Fire X4500 System Walkthrough and Part 2 (YouTube Video)
- Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault
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