Companies can’t afford
to have business critical services go offline. To meet these increasing demands
for compute services, platforms must be flexible and provide a cost effective
growth path. Oracle’s midrange SPARC Enterprise M4000 server boasts
reliability, flexibility, and binary compatibility in a value priced server by
combining the power of Oracle Solaris operating system with mainframe RAS features.
Built on the latest and most advanced SPARC64 VII/VII+ quad-core or SPARC64 VI
dual-core processors, the SPARC Enterprise M4000 server delivers enterprise class
service levels for essential business applications, databases, and smaller
consolidation projects.
Investment Protection, Scalability, Reliability,
and Flexibility
With the
SPARC Enterprise M4000 servers, you can protect your IT investment with no forklift
upgrades and scale out as needed. The option to mix and match different speeds/generations
of SPARC64 processors in existing and new M-series servers uniquely protects
investments and enables easy and low-cost upgrades not offered by IBM or HP.
In
addition, mainframe-class RAS features come standard in the SPARC Enterprise
M4000 server, including automatic recovery with instruction retry, up to 256 GB
of system memory error-correcting code (ECC) protection with extended ECC
support, guaranteed data path integrity, total SRAM and register protection,
and configurable memory mirroring. In
addition, the disks, power supply, and fans are
redundant and hot-swappable, while the I/O cards are also hot-swappable. Many
features unique to Oracle Solaris 10 enhance system reliability even further,
including Predictive Self-Healing, which automatically identifies and isolates
faults and provides specific guidance when action is required.
For more
flexibility, the SPARC Enterprise M4000 server supports up to two Dynamic Domains
with a high level of granularity: CPU board-level domains for large, mission-critical
workloads requiring maximum isolation and single-socket-level
domains for finer granularity with high isolation. For maximum flexibility,
each system can support thousands of Oracle Solaris Containers, which can
create many private execution environments within a single Oracle
Solaris instance.
Oracle Solaris: The World’s Most Advanced Operating
System
Only
Oracle legally assures investment protection with Oracle Solaris with 100%
binary compatibility for the past 15 years and counting. The SPARC Enterprise
M4000 server is preinstalled with Oracle Solaris 10. Oracle Solaris 10
also delivers revolutionary features, including
Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Oracle Solaris ZFS, crypto-graphic infrastructures,
IP filter, and User and Process Rights Management.