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
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).