Workgroup Servers

This section presents an overview of the following workgroup servers:

• Sun Enterprise 150 server system

• Sun Enterprise 250 serversystem

• Sun Enterprise 450 serversystem

• Sun Enterprise 2 server system

• Sun Enterprise 1 server system

• SPARCserver 20 server system

The highest capacity workgroup servers are presented first.

Sun Enterprise 150 Server System

The Sun Enterprise 150 server system is a tower workgroup server based on the 167 MHz UltraSPARC(TM) microprocessor. It has the following features:

• Autosensing 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet

• 10 Mbps Ethernet

• 20 Mbyte/second Fast/Wide SCSI-2 peripheral interface

• ECC-protected memory

• Internal disk array with up to twelve hot-plugable disks supporting RAID 0 (disk striping), RAID 1 (disk mirroring), and RAID 5 (hot spares) providing 48 Gbytes of disk capacity (based on 4 Gbyte disk drives)

• 1.44 Mbyte diskette drive

• 644 Mbyte CD-ROM drive

The Sun Enterprise 150 server system is ideal for an NFS server because it is a high-end workgroup server with high I/O performance and fast system throughput. Figure 2-4 shows a front view of the server.

Figure 2-4 Sun Enterprise 150 Front View

For additional disk storage, you can attach either the Sun StorEdge UniPack or the Sun StorEdge MultiPack to the server. If you need greater amounts of disk storage, use the SPARCstorage Array to the server. For a backup device, use the SPARCstorage Library, which olds ten cartridges in a removable magazine for an average total capacity of 140 Mbytes.

Sun Enterprise 250 System

The Sun Enterprise 250 system server is a mid-range server with up to 54 Gbytes of disk storage, dual CPU processors, and fast PCI I/O channels.

Software features are:

• RAID 0 (disk striping), RAID 1 (disk mirroring), and RAID 5 (hot spares)

• System performance and configuration monitors

• Automated hardware failure notification

• Error and panic logging

• Temperature sensing and fan control

• Backup power supply failure detection

• Hot sparing support

• Automatic fault detection, response, and recovery

• Logging file systems

• Secure remote system monitoring feature for geographically distributed or physically inaccessible systems

Hardware features are:

• Four PCI slots supporting up to four full size PCI cards (three regular PCI slots and one enhanced PCI slot)

• Up to sixteen SIMM slots, which support 16, 32, 64, or 128 Mbyte SIMMs totaling up to 2 Gbytes of memory capacity

• 10/100 Mbit Ethernet

• 20 Mbyte/second Fast Wide SCSI

• Up to two CPU modules (UltraSPARC-II)

• Up to six 1.6-inch high or 1-inch high UltraSCSI disks

• 1.44 Mbyte diskette drive

• 644 Mbyte CD-ROM drive

• Two 5 1/4-inch x 1.6-inch removable media bays

• Two high speed synchronous/asynchronous serial ports

• Up to two redundant hot swapable power supplies

• Module to provide remote system monitoring capability

• Supports rack mounting allowing the system to integrate easily into a computer room environment

Figure 2-5shows a front view of the Sun Enterprise 250 system.

Figure 2-5 Sun Enterprise 250 Front View

Sun Enterprise 450 System

The Sun Enterprise 450 system server, based on the UltraSPARC-II(TM) processor, is designed for mid-range server markets that require large amounts of local disk storage with fast or multiple I/O channels to clients or to the network.

Software features are:

• Support for RAID 1 (disk mirroring), RAID 3 (striping data and parity across drive groups) and RAID 5 (hot spares for FC-AL disk drives)

• System performance and configuration monitors

• Automated hardware failure notification

• Error and panic logging

• Temperature sensing and fan control

• Backup power supply failure detection

• Hot sparing support

• Automatic fault detection, response, and recovery

• Logging file systems

Hardware features are:

• 10 PCI slots supporting up to 10 full size PCI cards (seven regular PCI slots and three enhanced PCI slots)

• Up to sixteen SIMM slots, which support 32, 64, 128 or 256 Mbyte SIMMs totalling up to 4 Gbytes of memory capacity

• 10/100 Mbit Ethernet

• 20 Mbyte/second Fast Wide SCSI

• Up to four CPU modules (UltraSPARC-II)

• Up to twenty hot swappable FC-AL disks and up to two 1.6-inch high SCSI disks that provide up to 84 Gbytes internal storage

• Up to 6 Terabytes of external disk storage

• 1.44 Mbyte diskette drive

• 644 Mbyte CD-ROM drive

• Two 5 1/4-inch bays for optional tape backup

• Two high speed synchronous/asynchronous serial ports

• Up to three redundant hot swapable power supplies, which can be added one at a time to improve reliability and provide growth as needed

• Supports rack mounting allowing the system to integrate easily into a computer room environment

Figure 2-6 Front View of the Sun Enterprise 450 Server

You can attach up to two external tape devices or a single size or twelve drive Sun StorEdge MuliPack to the SCSI port. You can attach additional tape or disk devices by installing PCI host adapter cards. If you require large amounts of disk storage, you can also attach the Sun StorEdge A3000 subsystem to the system that provides a reduntant array of inexpensive disks (RAID).

Sun Enterprise 1 and 2 Systems

The Sun Enterprise 1 system is the first member of a new class of workstations based on the UltraSPARC-I processor and is designed to deliver balanced system performance.

The Sun Enterprise 1 system can be used as a high capacity NFS server for medium to large workgroups (50 to 100 users). It is designed for reliability, availability, and serviceability. It enables easy access to replace disk drives, SIMMs, and graphics cards.

The Sun Enterprise 2 system is a multiprocessor system based on the UltraSPARC-I processor. It is standard with Fast/Wide SCSI and Fast Ethernet, which enables the data throughput capability of this system to include the disk I/O and the network traffic. The system also has a 64-bit SBus running at 25 MHz giving maximum SBus throughput.

The Sun Enterprise 2 system can be used as an NFS server for mid- to large- sized workgroups.

The Ultra SPARC CPU is matched by a very high performance crossbar-switched interconnect that can move data at peak rates of 1.3 Gbytes/second. This interconnect, the Ultra Port Architecture (UPA), is the key to providing the greatly enhanced memory bandwidth. Both the Sun Enterprise 1 and 2 systems have a 64-bit SBus running at 25 MHz giving maximum SBus throughput.

The architecture was designed to be fully compatible with previous generations of workstations so that all Solaris operating environment applications can run unchanged.

Figure 2-7 shows a front view of the Sun Enterprise 1 system.

Figure 2-7 Sun Enterprise 1 Front View

SPARCserver 20 System

The SPARCserver 20 system, introduced in 1994, is designed to be a workgroup NFS file server or a database server in an office environment. It is based on the same MBus and SBus technologies as the SPARCserver 10 system. Performance is increased over the SPARCserver 10 by using faster MBus and SBus technology, and faster SPARC modules. The SPARCserver 20 system has increased computing and network performance.

The SPARCserver 20 system is available in three uniprocessor configurations and three multiprocessor configurations.

The uniprocessor configurations are:

• Model 50--50 MHz SuperSPARC processor

• Model 51--50 MHz SuperSPARC processor and 1 Mbyte SuperCache

• Model 61--60 MHz SuperSPARC processor and 1 Mbyte SuperCache

• Model 71--75 MHz SuperSPARC processor and 1 Mbyte SuperCache

• Model 151--one 150 MHz HyperSPARC processor and 0.5 Mbyte external cache

The multiprocessor configurations are:

• Model 502MP--two 50 MHz SuperSPARC processors

• Model 514MP--four 50 MHz SuperSPARC processors and 1 Mbyte SuperCache

• Model 612MP--two 60 MHz SuperSPARC processors and 1 Mbyte SuperCache

• Model 712--two 75 MHz SuperSPARC processors and 1 Mbyte SuperCache

• Model 152MP--two 150 MHz HyperSPARC processors and 0.5 Mbyte of external cache

Figure 2-8 shows the front view of the SPARCserver 20 system.

Figure 2-8 SPARCserver 20 System Front View

SPARCserver 20 System Features

The SPARCserver 20 system features include:

• More than 2 Gbytes of internal hard disk storage (two 1.05 Gbyte disk drives)

• Up to 126 Gbytes of disk storage in the SPARCstorage Array (Model 101) subsystems when directly connected to four SPARCstorage Array subsystems

• 1.44 Mbyte diskette drive (optional)

• 644 Mbyte CD-ROM drive (optional)

• Two serial ports, one parallel port

• Twisted-pair Ethernet

• Up to 512 Mbytes of memory (60 ns SIMMs)

• AUI Ethernet (optional) (can have up to 9 Ethernet networks)

• SBus or NVRAM-NVSIMM Prestoserve NFS accelerator (optional)