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ORACLE DATA SHEET
SUN SERVER X2-8 SYSTEM
KEY FEATURES
Compact design enterprise class
server in 5U
Powered by four or eight Intel®
Xeon® processor E7-8800 product
family
Up to 4 TB of low voltage memory
with128 DIMMs
drives or solid state drives
Hot swappable I/O, disks, cooling
fans and power supply units
Support for a wide range of
enterprise class server operating
systems
KEY BENEFITS
Leadership performance at a
fraction of the cost of HP Itanium
and IBM Power Systems servers
Increased power savings with low
voltage memory
Leading reliability with unmatched
x86 RAS features
Consistent system manageability
with Oracle ILOM included in every
system
Sun Server X2-8
system is revolutionizing the
x86 market by setting new
standards with leading
performance, outstanding
scalability and unmatched
reliability, availability and
serviceability (RAS) features. This is the most powerful and expandable system
-memory
databases, applications with large memory footprints, server consolidation and
enterprise technical computing workloads.
Product Overview
The Sun Server X2-8 system is a compact, modular 5 rack unit (U) system which is
redefining the enterprise x86 market with superior performance, outstanding I/O
expandability, and unmatched RAS features.
Using a blade-like modular design architecture, the Sun Server X2-8 is powered by two or
four CPU modules, each one with two Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800 product family CPUs
and 32 memory slots. With eight or ten cores per socket, this server delivers extreme compute
density in a compact 5U enclosure. When compared with the previous generation server, this
system doubles low voltage memory to up to 4 TB and doubles internal storage to 4.8 TB
while reducing power consumption.
The Sun Server X2-8 offers massive I/O, making it an ideal platform for virtualization and
other I/O-intensive applications. Up to eight hot-swappable PCIe 2.0 ExpressModules (EMs)
provide I/O flexibility and choice in network connections, such as Fibre Channel, InfiniBand
or Ethernet. These EMs virtually eliminate downtime typically needed to perform I/O
upgrades and maintenance. Two Network Express Modules provide eight Gigabit Ethernet
and eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for additional I/O bandwidth.
New to the x86 market, and included in the Sun Server X2-8, are RAS features which consist
of hot swappable components such as PCIe ExpressModules, front accessible disk drives with
RAID enabled redundancy, and redundant and hot-swappable fans and power supplies. All
these features contribute to increased uptime and ease of system serviceability in the case of
hardware failure.
The compact, scalable blade-like modular design of the Sun Server X2-8 helps customers save
time and money. It provides flexibility for datacenter growth while minimizing the costs
associated with datacenter refresh. In addition to its large memory footprint and leading
reliability, the Sun Server X2-8 system has demonstrated unmatched price performance
making it an ideal replacement server for inefficient legacy HP Itanium and IBM Power
Systems servers.