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.
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[edit] Hardware
The Sun Fire X4500 supports 2 dual-core AMD Opteron processors. With 48 1000 GB SATA drives, it provides 48 TB of storage in 4 rack units.
[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
- 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]
- G10 Enterprise Video Manager [14]
- Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup [15]
Forty-two Sun Fire X4500 data servers are used to provide Lustre cluster filesystem storage in the TSUBAME supercomputer [16], 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 [17].
[edit] References
- ^ Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: The Rise of the General Purpose System. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
- ^ on an X4500: ROCKS:searching for USB key on device ... and reboots. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.
- ^ Performance of a Sun X4500 under Windows, NTFS and SQLserver 2005. Jim Gray, Microsoft. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
- ^ Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 Servers. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-12-02.
- ^ Sun Streaming System - Overview. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
- ^ Sun Visualization System - Overview. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
- ^ Sun Microsystems Launches Unique Data Management Appliance for Communication Service Providers. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-06-07.
- ^ Sun Constellation System. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
- ^ Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-08-09.
- ^ Sun Scalable Storage Cluster - Lustre on Thumper. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
- ^ Universal Storage Networking featuring FICON and ESCON mainframe channel gateways, connectivity and data storage products. Luminex. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
- ^ The Simplicity of Achieving High-End Performance at a Low Cost. SAS Institute Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
- ^ Partner Spotlight. Greenplum. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
- ^ G10 Home. G10. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
- ^ Sun Fire X4500 as a Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
- ^ Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
- ^ TPC-H Details. Transaction Processing Performance Council. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
[edit] External links
- Sun Fire X4500 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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