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Wednesday Jun 06, 2007

Sun Blade T6300

 The T6300 - A powerful blade!

Since I've been hired here, I've tested this machine, so I'm slightly familiar with it.  That being said, I'm very happy to see it released.  It fits inside a

Sun Blade 6000 Chassis

 

which you can buy here.  The Chassis is a really cool design.  The Chassis provides all the power to the Blades, and its midplane connects different Network Modules, PCI-E Modules, Four on-board SAS links for external expansion via NEM, and others all together.  Also, all fans, cooling are on the chassis, not the blade. 

 The Sun Blade T6300 is a Niagara based processor blade...some cool features are:
  • Single-socket, 8-core UltraSPARC T1 processor
  • Up to 32 simultaneous processing threads per module

A big feature this Blade might vaunt is virtualization.  This thing supports LDOMS, if you don't know about this feature, click here.  In a nutshell, think of LDOMS as running multiple servers on one machine, each with its own kernel.  Plus, most importantly, its free...

 Anyways, I thought I would brag myself about working on such a fine product!
 


 


Comments:

Tell us more about the tests you've done, results, performance, etc. Thanks.

Posted by Marie on June 11, 2007 at 07:46 AM PDT #

I am ordering this based on your knowledge. Thank you so much for your help and will rely only on you for support. Debra

Posted by Debra on June 12, 2007 at 02:51 PM PDT #

I just found this post for the N2, and it shows64 instances of LDOMS all running solaris, that is cool
http://blogs.sun.com/njn/entry/the_answer_is_42_er

Posted by Eric Shobe on August 12, 2007 at 09:34 PM PDT #

Thank you for the excellent information!!! I really appreciate it. I am wearing your Action News Shirt right now. Is that really an Action News Station???????

Posted by Debra Shobe on August 28, 2009 at 07:56 AM PDT #

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