Combining the power of the Solaris™ Operating System with RAS features traditionally found on mainframe-class systems, the midrange Sun™ SPARC® Enterprise™ M5000 server delivers leading reliability, flexibility, and binary compatibility in a value-priced server. Built on the advanced, SPARC64 VI dual-core processor, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server provides enterprise-class service levels for medium-size to large databases, scientific/engineering applications, and consolidation/virtualization projects.

Mainframe-class RAS in a highly flexible system
A surprising number of mainframe-class RAS features come standard in the Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server, including automatic recovery with instruction retry, up to 256 GB of system memory error-correcting code (ECC) protection with extended ECC support, guaranteed data path integrity, total SRAM and register protection, and configurable memory mirroring. Plus, the disks, power supply, and fans are redundant and hot-swappable, and the I/O cards are hot-swappable as well. Other Solaris 10 features that further enhance system reliability include Predictive Self-Healing, which automatically identifies and isolates faults and provides guidance when remediation is needed.

To enhance flexibility, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server supports up to four Dynamic Domains — CPU board-level domains for large, mission-critical workloads that depend on maximum isolation, and single-socket-level domains for finer granularity with high isolation. For additional flexibility, each system can support thousands of Solaris Containers, which enable a single Solaris 10 OS instance to support many isolated execution environments.

Solaris: the world’s most advanced OS
The Solaris 10 OS is preinstalled on every Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server and is an integral part of the the system’s advanced design. Sun goes so far as to guarantee that applications written for the Solaris 10 OS are 100 percent binary compatible with SPARC/Solaris applications built for earlier versions of the OS. And the Solaris 10 OS also supports Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Solaris ZFS, cryptographic infrastructures, IP filter, and User and Process Rights Management. In addition, the Solaris OS provides industry-leading network identity services, plus Web and application services, collaboration and communication services, portal services, and clustering.

Highlights:

• Scalable, mainframe-class computing for the open systems market
• Advanced virtualization technologies, methodologies, and services, which make Sun SPARC Enterprise servers ideal for consolidation
• Solaris™ Application Guarantee for maximum investment protection
• Up to eight dual-core, SPARC64 VI processors
• Maximum system utilization through hardware partitioning, with up to four Dynamic Domains, providing 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