Hardware in SunWeb 4.0

A key piece of the SunWeb 4.0 deployment was hardware. SunWeb had quickly outgrown the systems on which it was originally deployed. SunWeb moved to a stack of Sun Fire x64 servers running Solaris 10 OS, which provided greater performance, stability, and scalability.

The hardware used in SunWeb 4.0 includes the following:

• Nine V20z Opteron servers (dual 1.8 GHz CPUs, 16 Gbyte RAM, 2x 72 Gbyte SAS)

• One Sun Fire x4100 (Galaxy, dual 2.2 GHz CPUs, 16 Gbyte RAM, 2x 73 Gbyte SAS)

• Load balancer

For more information about hardware, see Preparing the Computer Hardware and Operating System Specification. For more information about load balancing and redundancy strategies, see Choosing Redundancy Strategies for the SunWeb Architecture.