The Sun Blade 8000 Series is designed for ease of use by both customers and authorized service personnel. All components in the Sun Blade 8000 Series are removable and serviceable by a single person. Most components are customer-replaceable units (CRUs); however, some components are field-replaceable units (FRUs), which must be removed and installed only by authorized Sun service personnel. See the CRU Features and FRU Features sections below to determine which components are CRUs and which components are FRUs. When a component fails, its associated amber Service Action Required LED indicator will light. See the Diagnosing and Detecting Component Faults section below.
The Sun Blade 8000 Series is designed with a midplane to which various replaceable units are installed from the front and rear of the chassis. All components that are hot-pluggable, with the exception of the power supply modules, front fan modules (Sun Blade 8000 Chassis only), and rear fan modules, require no tools for removal or replacement. When you replace a component, an indicator light illuminates or an audible click sounds so that you know the component is properly installed. For a list of hot-pluggable components and those components that require the system or associated module to be powered off, see About Hot-Pluggable Components.
You can use the ILOM web interface to access information about components installed in the chassis. In general, this applies to any component with a FRU ID, and/or present or not-present indicators. For instructions on using the ILOM web interface, see View Replaceable Component Information.
You can view the following component information:
Part number
Revision level
Serial number
Any fault data associated with the component
Component information is accessible even when the component itself is powered off. When you remove or replace a component, the management interfaces report and log the change in the component inventory within 10 seconds.
The Sun Blade 8000 Series uses fault management software to monitor hardware health and to diagnose and report hardware failures on system components. When a sensor on the system chassis, power supplies, blades, or fans registers a problem, the fault management software will diagnose the problem, and if it determines that a hardware failure has occurred, the software will light the component's Service Action Required LED. The ILOM management interfaces will also be updated to reflect the hardware failure and the failure is recorded as a fault in the event log. For further information about the fault management software and how to monitor faults, see About Fault Management and Monitoring Faults.
CRUs are components that customers can replace on site, without the assistance of authorized service personnel.
CRU |
Description |
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Sun Blade Server Modules (blades) |
The blades, which are installed from the front of the chassis, contain the core AMD Opteron CPU or Intel Xeon CPU (depending on the blade) and memory subsystem. Each blade provides sockets for up to four 64-bit CPUs. The blades also contain the PCI Express I/O connectivity to the Sun Blade 8000 Network Express Modules (NEMs) and PCI Express ExpressModules (EMs; Sun Blade 8000 Chassis only). |
Power supply modules |
The Sun Blade 8000 Chassis supports six power supply modules. The Sun Blade 8000 P Chassis supports four power supply modules. The power supplies are installed from the front of the chassis. Each power supply module provides approximately 3000W at 48V to power the blades, NEMs, and EMs (Sun Blade 8000 Chassis only). The power supply modules also provide 12V standby power to power one or two CMMs. |
Front fan modules (Sun Blade 8000 Chassis only) |
The Sun Blade 8000 Chassis provides three fan modules, which are installed from the front of the chassis, behind the front fan tray cover. These fan modules cool the EMs. |
Chassis Monitoring Modules (CMM) |
The chassis accommodates up to two CMMs, which are installed from the rear of the chassis, in a redundant active/standby configuration. The CMM acts as a hub for all chassis management functions, such as coordination of power supply, blade, NEM, and CMM hot-plug operations. |
Network Express Modules (NEM) |
The Sun Blade 8000 Chassis supports up to four NEMs. The Sun Blade 8000 P Chassis supports up to two NEMs. The NEMs are installed from the rear of the chassis and provide aggregated I/O functionality for the blades. |
PCI Express ExpressModules (EM) (Sun Blade 8000 Chassis only) |
The Sun Blade 8000 Chassis holds up to 20 EMs, which are installed from the rear of the chassis. The EMs provide dedicated I/O on a per blade basis. Each blade connects via PCI Express to two EMs. The EMs are hot-pluggable under direct control of the blade hardware and software. The CMMs are not involved with EM hot-plug operations. |
Rear fan modules |
The chassis provides nine fan modules, which are installed from the rear of the chassis, that cool the blades, NEMs, and CMMs. |
SAS and SATA disk drives |
Up to two, 2.5-inch hot-pluggable SAS or SATA drives, which are installed from the front of the blade, are supported. |
Memory modules (DIMMs or FBIMMs) |
The blades support the following types of memory modules:
Memory capacities are 1, 2, and 4 Gbytes for all blades. |
FRUs are components that must be removed and replaced only by authorized Sun service personnel.
FRU |
Description |
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Front fan tray (Sun Blade 8000 Chassis only) |
The front fan tray, which is installed from the front of the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis, holds the three front fan modules. |
I/O chassis |
The I/O chassis, which is installed from the rear of the chassis, secures the NEMs, EMs (for the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis only), and CMMs within the chassis and includes the AC power interface module. |
Rear fan cage |
The rear fan cage, which is installed from the rear of the chassis, holds the nine rear fan modules. |
CPUs |
Four AMD Opteron dual-core processors (X8400, X8420, X8440 Server Modules) and four or two Intel Xeon quad-core processors (X8450 Server Module) are supported. |
Heatsink with thermal grease |
The heatsink, which is installed on the CPU, dissipates CPU heat to the surrounding environment. |