Many large organizations depend on a wide array of demanding applications that require mission-critical, 24x7 performance — and for those enterprises, there’s the high-end Sun™ SPARC® Enterprise™ M9000 server. It delivers the reliability of traditional mainframes, without the cost, complexity, and vendor lock-in. And with the advanced SPARC64 VI processor and Solaris™ 10 Operating System as its foundation, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server is optimized for enterprise-class applications such as ERP, CRM, BIDW, large databases, HPC/scientific/engineering applications, and large-scale OLTP.

The RAS and scalability features of a mainframe
Mainframe-class RAS features come standard in the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, including automatic recovery with instruction retry, up to 2 TB of system memory errorcorrecting code (ECC) protection with extended ECC support, guaranteed data-path integrity, total SRAM and register protection, configurable memory mirroring, and many more. What’s more, major system components, such as the power supplies, I/O units, CPU memory boards, and service processors, are redundant and hot-swappable, for increased availability and serviceability.

Solaris 10: the most advanced OS on the planet
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server is built on the Solaris 10 OS, which comes preinstalled on every system. The Solaris 10 OS delivers a host of revolutionary new features, including Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Solaris ZFS, cryptographic infrastructures, IP filter, and User and Process Rights Management. Predictive Self- Healing automatically identifies and isolates faults and provides guidance when remediation is required. And fault isolation is provided down to the ASIC level.

Advanced virtualization and consolidation
Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are some of the industry’s best consolidation platforms, thanks to their advanced virtualization features. The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server supports up to 24 Dynamic Domains, enabling massive server consolidation and virtualization. Each physical domain can also be further optimized through the use of Solaris Containers, which allow each Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server to support thousands of software partitions.

Highlights:

• Scalable, mainframe-class computing for the open systems market
• Sun’s advanced virtualization technologies plus proven methodologies and services make Sun SPARC Enterprise servers the ultimate consolidation systems
• Maximum investment protection with the Solaris Application Guarantee
• Highly scalable product line, going from a single-socket system to a 64-socket, 256-thread system
• Expands from 32 CPUs to 64 CPUs by adding an expansion cabinet
• Sun’s High Availability, Solaris 10 Adoption, and Consolidation services, combined with a global support network, for improved performance, maximum IT asset utilization, fast time to implementation, and a focus on strategic business objectives