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TM
Netra X4200 M2 Server
Just the Facts
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June 2007
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Table of Contents Positioning.....................................................................................................................................................................5 Introduction...............................................................................................................................................................5 Key Messages.......................................................................................................................
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Standard Configurations – Preconfigured Systems................................................................................................34 Netra X4200 M2 Server XATO Chassis Options:..................................................................................................36 Options.........................................................................................................................................................................37 Upgrades.......................
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Positioning TM Figure 1. Netra X4200 M2 server Introduction Deregulation and privatization has created intense competition in the worldwide telecommunications market over the past few years. The marketplace continues to evolve as voice and data solutions become more integrated and next-generation wireless, video and messaging technologies emerge. Growing demand for scalable and available services coupled with modern economic realities are re-shaping the design of the telecommunications inf
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Key Messages The Netra X4200 M2 server delivers dramatic performance and flexibility along with space and power efficiency to meet the increasing demands of the network infrastructure. Powered by up to two dual core TM Next-Generation AMD Opteron embedded class processors, the Netra X4200 server achieves extreme performance while it's high compute density and low power consumption address constraints related to space, power, and cooling. The Netra X4200 server allows Sun to continue to of
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● Netra based servers are used around the globe in a variety of locations including telecommunications central offices and wireless base stations, Internet data centers, metropolitan area networks, POPs, and enterprise service provider infrastructures. The Netra X4200 M2 reaffirms Sun's commitment to customers who invested in the Netra product line by offering a product that delivers enhanced performance/throughput, consistent form, fit, and function. Key Product Features, Functions, and
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Feature Function Benefit • DDR2/667 memory with • ECC helps to ensure data • Increases memory reliability, ECC integrity with automatic error helping to reduce the chances of correction in case a single bit system downtime caused by is affected by such events as memory failures alpha particle hitting a memory cell • Hardware RAID support • Supports either two-disk • Provides data redundancy and provided by the onboard RAID 1 (Integrated Mirror) increased performance at no disk controller v
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Feature Function Benefit • Four onboard • Exceptional I/O performance • Increases network efficiency, 10/100/1000-Mbps and increased network flexibility, and availability Ethernet ports reliability by providing redundancy • Four PCI slots: three 133 • For external connections to • Full height PCI-X slots provide MHZ PCI-X (full height, additional storage, etc. support for legacy 2x full-length, 1x half telecommunication cards height), one x8 PCI-E (MD2 low profile) • Optional DVD RW • Abili
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Feature Function Benefit 1. Bare-metal discovery commands, vastly reducing 2. firmware updating administrator overhead. 3. OS patching • Easily integratable with enterprise 4. OS Provisioning management tools. 5. Monitoring 6. Event logging • Sun Customer Ready • For factory-configured, pre- • Simplification and speed of system Systems (CRS) program racked, custom Netra X4200 deployment M2 servers, refer to the CRS program website: http://www.sun.com/crs Product Family Placement This produc
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Feature Netra X4200 M2 Server Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server Four USB 1.1 ports PCI Three PCI-X slots, full height, 2x full Four PCI-E slots, MD2low profile length, 1x half height One PCI-X slot, MD2 low profile One PCI-E slot, MD2 low profile Ethernet Four on-board Gigabit ports Four on-board Gigabit ports Two 550W hot-swap AC/DC (1+1) Two 550W hot-swap AC/DC (N+1) Power supplies (redundant) (redundant) 2 RU x 20” 2 RU x 24.8” Form factor Yes, IPMI 2.0 Yes, IPMI 2.0 Integrated Service Processor In-
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Feature Netra X4200 Netra T2000 Netra 240 Netra 440 146-GB (w/o DVD ) (w/o DVD ) 2.5” SAS 2.5” SAS HDDs HDDs Removable Tray Load DVD/RW Tray Load DVD/RW Slimline DVD/RW Slimline DVD/RW media Interfaces Dual USB 2.0 ports, Dual USB 1.1 ports, 1 x Dual serial, Dual Dual serial, Four USB, 1 x 10MB/s Ethernet, 10MB/s Ethernet, one USB, 1 x 10MB/s One SCSI, 1 x 10MB/s one serial serial Ethernet, one SCSI Ethernet, PCI slots Three 133MHZ PCI- Three 133MHZ PCI-X 3 PCI slots, full 6 PCI slots,
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• Base Station Controller (BSC) • Content Distribution Networks • DNS Services • Firewall (VPN/IPSEC) • IP Traffic management • Security • Streaming Media • Defense/Military /Intelligence applications include shipboard command and control, mobile weapons control and remote intelligence access servers • Embedded OEM applications such as industrial process control, semiconductor test equipment and network imaging systems Just the Facts, August 2007 Sun Confidential: Internal and Sun Channel
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Selling Highlights Market Value Proposition • The Netra X4200 M2 server delivers dramatic performance and flexibility along with space and power efficiency to meet the increasing demands of the network infrastructure. It is ideal for customers standardizing on a x64 platform infrastructure for mixed workloads, including single thread, multi- thread and FP applications. In addition, the Netra X4200 M2 server is applicable for customers requiring application flexibility and protection of asset
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Link 3 Link 2 Link 1 72 bit 72 bit Enabling Technology Next-Generation AMD Opteron Processor Basics The Next-Generation AMD Opteron processor leverages the same proven Direct Connect Architecture and CMP (Chip-level Multi-Processing) design features of the Single- and Dual-Core AMD Opteron (formerly known as Rev E) processors, including: • 64-bit operating systems to provide full, transparent, and simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit platform application multitasking • Direct Connect Architecture
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TM HyperTransport Technology The Next-Generation AMD Opteron processor continues to use HyperTransport Technology links to provide a scalable bandwidth interconnect among processors, I/O subsystems, and other chip sets. HyperTransport Technology: • Helps increase overall system performance by removing I/O bottlenecks typically found in Front Side Bus (FSB) architectures and efficiently integrating with legacy buses, increasing bandwidth and speed, and reducing latency of processors. • Prov
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Figure 3: Sample HyperTransport Technology Interconnect Block New Next-Generation AMD Opteron Processor Enhancements The Next-Generation AMD Opteron Processor Design for Socket F (1207) (formerly known as “Rev F”) is a redesign of the original Dual-Core AMD Opteron (formerly known as “Rev E”) design and offer the following enhancements: • New socket design, all native dual core processors • Consistent processor power requirements • Supports lower power DDR2 memory technology • Consistent soc
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For AMD PowerNow technology to work, both the operating system and server BIOS must be qualified to run AMD's PowerNow. Please see below for specific product support. Solaris Support for PowerNow! Solaris Engineering is currently aggressively working to add PowerNow support. Solaris is targeting a patch to add support at the end of this calendar year. PowerNow support is targeted for the Solaris 10 Update 4 release, planned to be released in Jan/Feb 2007. For more information on AMD Powe
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System Architecture Overview TM Figure 4. Netra X4200 M2 server block diagram TM The Netra X4200 M2 server comes with the following major components: • The Next-Generation AMD Opteron 2214 HE (embedded class) processors • Up to 32 GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory in 8 available memory slots • Four on-board Gigabit Ethernet ports • Three PCI-X (full-height, 2x full-length and 1x half-length) slots and one PCI-Express MD2 low profile slot • Up to two SAS disk drives with a tray-load DVD or four SAS disk d
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Overview The Netra X4200 M2 server features two CPU sockets that support Next-Generation AMD Opteron, model 2214 HE (L1 socket) embedded class processors. The server is supported with one or two processors and each processor controls 2 pairs of DIMM slots, for a total of eight DIMM in a two CPU system. There is a 6.4 GB/sec. access between processor and memory and one 1GHz 16x16 HyperTransport link between the two processors (8 GB/sec. Bandwidth).Through HyperTransport, each processor ca
