Combining the power of the Solaris™ Operating System with mainframe RAS features, the midrange Sun™ SPARC® Enterprise™ M4000 server boasts reliability, flexibility, and binary compatibility in a value-priced server. Built on the advanced SPARC64® VI dualcore processor, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server delivers enterprise-class service levels for essential business applications, databases, and smaller consolidation projects.

Mainframe-class scalability, reliability and flexibility
Mainframe-class RAS features come standard in the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server, including automatic recovery with instruction retry, up to 128 GB of system memory errorcorrecting code (ECC) protection with extended ECC support, guaranteed data path integrity, total SRAM and register protection, and configurable memory mirroring. In addition, the disks, power supply, and fans are redundant and hot-swappable, while the I/O cards are also hot-swappable. Many features unique to the Solaris 10 OS enhance system reliability even further, including Predictive Self-Healing, which automatically identifies and isolates faults and provides specific guidance when action is required.

For more flexibility, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server supports up to two Dynamic Domains, with a high level of granularity: CPU board-level domains for large, mission-critical workloads requiring maximum isolation, and single-socket-level domains for finer granularity with high isolation. For maximum flexibility, each system can support thousands of Solaris Containers, which can create many private execution environments within a single Solaris OS instance.

Solaris: the world’s most advanced OS
The foundation of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server is the Solaris 10 OS, which comes preinstalled on every system. Sun guarantees —in writing — that the Solaris 10 OS is 100 percent binary compatible with applications written for earlier Solaris versions. The Solaris 10 OS also supports Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), the Solaris Zettabyte File System (ZFS), cryptographic infrastructures, IP filters, and User and Process Rights Management. What’s more, the Solaris OS provides services for identity management, Web and application access, collaboration and communication, portals, and clustering.

Highlights:

• Scalable, mainframe-class computing for the open systems market
• Advanced virtualization technologies, methodologies, and services, making Sun SPARC Enterprise servers ideal for consolidation
• Investment protection with the unique Solaris™ Application Guarantee
• Up to four dual-core SPARC64 VI processors
• Maximum system utilization through hardware partitioning, with up to two physical Dynamic Domains, with granularity down to a single socket
• Leading performance, utilization, and speed to implementation through Sun’s High Availability, Solaris 10 Adoption, and Consolidation services, combined with a global support network