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Sun and Fujitsu boost SPARC server performance
The dedicated Sun division at Workgroup, Horizon, has announced that Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have enhanced the performance and virtualisation capabilities of their chip multi-threaded (CMT) SPARC Enterprise server lines with the addition of 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus processors.
The CMT servers with Solaris make it easy for customers to economise in the data centre without sacrificing performance of efficiency, says Bradley McCulloch, sales and marketing manager at Horizon.
“The servers and OS deliver increased performance, scalability and reliability with built-in virtualisations capabilities at no additional cost,” he adds. “Combining new 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus processors with new Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.2 software provides additional virtualisation and compute performance, simplifying management, reducing I/O bottlenecks and accelerating application response time.”
LDoms 1.2 software, combined with the latest Solaris OS release, delivers new features, including:
- Built-in configuration tools – provides simple and streamlined set up of Logical Domains with built-in command line configuration tools that enable customers to quickly begin using LDoms.
- CPU power management – reduces system footprint and efficiencies across network infrastructures with the support of jumbo frames, allowing customers to send more data at one time and reducing processing load requirements.
- Domain mobility – enables the dynamic migration of domains to accommodate increased resource demands, maintenance requirements, or to reduce energy consumption during low utilisation periods via a single migration command.
- Built-in recovery – automatically backs up LDom configurations on disk in case of system corruption.
- Physical-to-virtual migration tool – allows customers to adopt LDoms infrastructures quickly when moving from existing legacy SPARC/Solaris systems to CMT systems.
