Sun Fire X4500

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 (code-named Thor), which doubles the processing power of the X4500.

In November 2010, Oracle designated that the X4540 is end-of-life and has no next-generation replacement model. [2]

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Hardware

The Sun Fire X4500 supports 2 dual-core AMD Opteron processors. With forty-eight 500/1000 GB SATA drives, it provides 24/48 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.

A significant feature of both systems is that the I/O framework was designed to handle high throughput on all disks simultaneously. These were the first systems designed specifically with ZFS in mind, so no hardware RAID is included.

Supported Operating Systems

Solutions using X4500/X4540

Forty-two Sun Fire X4500 data servers are used to provide Lustre cluster filesystem storage in the TSUBAME supercomputer,[20] which was number 7 on June 2006 TOP500 list.

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.[21]

References

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  12. ^ "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. 
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  14. ^ "Greenplum Data Warehouse Appliance". Greenplum. http://www.greenplum.com/partners/data_warehouse_appliance/. Retrieved 2007-05-28. 
  15. ^ "ipConfigure Home Page". ipConfigure. http://www.ipconfigure.com. Retrieved 2008-08-28. 
  16. ^ "EVM Highlights". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/videosurveillance/g10_evm_v2.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-14. 
  17. ^ "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. 
  18. ^ "Cypress: SUN X4540 and ZFS+". Greenbytes. http://www.green-bytes.com/. Retrieved 2008-09-15. 
  19. ^ "The Internet In A Box". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp. Retrieved 2009-03-25. 
  20. ^ "Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation". Sun Microsystems. http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0507/820-2187.html. Retrieved 2007-06-21. 
  21. ^ "TPC-H Details". Transaction Processing Performance Council. http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107101502. Retrieved 2007-11-07. 

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