Sun Servers

Refurbished Racks of Sun V20Z Servers
This may be your once in a lifetime chance to get that done at a fraction of the cost of a new purchase. Our Tech Travel Agents have just informed us that several fully populated racks of Sun V20Z servers have arrived back in [...]

Newly Listed Sun Remanufactured Product Offerings
Recently added products to Sun's remanufactured list include Sun Fire X4600 M2, Sun Fire X4500 Data Server, Sun Fire X4600, Sun Fire X2200 M2 X64-based servers, and Netra 1280 servers. Remanufactured Sun products are rebuilt to deliver ...

End of Life for Select Sun Blade, Sun Fire, and Ultra Products
With newer generation products in place, Sun has decided to retire a few Sun Blade configurations and products along with Sun Fire and Ultra products. These include Sun Blade X8420 Server Module with AMD Opteron 8216 Processor; ...

Sun Fire X4150 Sets Single- and Dual-JVM Benchmarks
In a recent blog, BM Seer reports on the two SPECjbb2005 benchmarks set by the Sun Fire X4150 Server in both single- and dual-JVM tests. In both instances, the Sun Fire X4150 Server was equipped with 2 Intel X5460 quad-core processors ...

Sun x4 PCIe Quad Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule for Sun Blade Servers
The new Sun x4 PCIe Quad Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule for Sun Blade Servers provides cost savings to customers through increased server I/O utilization for network connectivity and four high speed ports with a single low Profile PCI ...

How to Configure the Sun Fire X4500 as NAS for Symantec Enterprise ...
Thomas' paper includes a configuration script for this solution that should enable one to configure a Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage in just a few minutes.

Sun Netra T5220 Server Earns Rave Review
Sun's recent announcements on the release of the Niagara 2 rack server in the Netra line drew the attention of IP Communications Group Richard Grigonis who suggests that the Sun Netra T5220 server should be terrific for virtualization ...

Browser-Based User Interface Functionality Added to Sun Blade 6000
Sun Blade 6000 chassis 1.1a firmware provides a browser-based user interface (BUI) to the ILOM 2.0.3.1 for the Sun Blade 6000 Chassis Management Module (CMM), giving users a choice of Command Line Interface (CLI) or BUI for managing and ...

John Fowler Digs in for the Long Haul at Sun Storage and Systems
John Fowler, EVP of Systems at Sun, sees evidence of increasing market share in Sun's performance against its rivals in that sector and, in an interview with Mary Jander indicates that Sun will follow the course that it has set in the ...

New Riser Cards for Sun Fire V215 and V245 Server
New riser cards for the Sun Fire V215 and V245 servers change the characteristics of the I/O subsystem for more flexibility in configurations. Two of the new riser cards provide an effective means to change I/O slots from PCI-X to PCIe, ...