White Paper: Sun Fire X4150, X4250, and X4450 Server Architecture
Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology - White Paper - August 2008
The Sun white paper “Sun Fire X4150, X4250 and X4450 Server Architecture: Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology” explains how Sun, in response to the increasing pressure being applied to IT departments to deliver new services and satisfy escalating resource demands for new applications and users, has introduced the Sun Fire models
- X4150 (1 or 2 dual or quad core Xeons),
- X4250 (2 dual or quad Xeons with up to 16 disks), and
- X4450 (2 or 4 dual or quad core Xeon)
These servers offer incredible system density, with robust compute, memory, networking, storage, and I/O expansion in small, compact 1U and 2U form factors.These platforms have been designed to leverage Intel Xeon processor technologies and Sun’s engineering expertise in chassis and systems design, these platforms deliver new levels of performance — and new levels of performance-per-watt — in a rack-mountable chassis. Enterprises that deploy these servers can create a more agile infrastructure that can scale to meet new business challenges while maintaining a small footprint.
The Sun Fire X4150, X4250, and X4450 servers provide the expandable, high-capacity resources needed for demanding HPC grid computing, web infrastructure, database, and server consolidation and virtualization initiatives. These systems, the paper continues, are ideal for a variety of industries, especially those installations where performance, density, and energy conservation are paramount. Given the speed and efficiency of these servers, IT departments can easily consolidate workloads and improve utilization — at the same time preserving investments in x86 and x64 applications.
Sun offers professional services, training, and integrated support to optimize server implementations and speed time-to-deployment. Experienced Sun specialists can assist with datacenter capacity planning, and consolidation and virtualization strategies. To experience the density and power of the Sun Fire X4150, X4250, and X4450 servers firsthand, contact your Sun account representative or visit www.sun.com/servers.