Product Description

The Sun Blade X6275 M2 server module is a dual-node high-density computing blade for cloud, middleware, and virtualized environments. The server blade's two compute nodes (Node 0 and Node 1) are housed on a single motherboard in a single blade enclosure. The server module is only supported in the Sun Blade 6000 modular system chassis.

The server is available in two models:

• The Sun Blade X6275 M2 server module with GbE (X6275M2–BB).

• The Sun Blade X6275 M2 server module with 10GbE (X6275M2–CB).

The following illustration shows the layout of the main system components:

The server module is configured as follows:

• Both server module compute nodes are identical and symmetric, but are fully independent of each other. Each node supports two CPUs and 12 cores of compute density.

• Each node is based on a two-socket six-core Intel Xeon 5600 series platform that includes the Intel 5500 chipset (IOH–24D Northbridge and ICH10 Southbridge) and network I/O.

• Each node supports up to twelve low voltage DDR3 DIMMs (up to 96 GB of main memory using 8 GB DIMMs).

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  Note - Both nodes of the server module must be configured identically (CPUs and memory).

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• The following network interfaces are available:

  • One 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet port per node using the embedded Intel 82567 GbE controller (server module model X6275M2–BB).

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  • One 10GbE ports per node using the embedded Mellanox ConnectX–2 controller and XAUI (server module model X6275M2–CB).

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    Note - The 10GbE signal for this model is generated by the embedded Mellanox ConnectX-2 controller, and therefore no Fabric Expansion Modules (FEM) are required. The only 10GbE NEM currently supported for this model is the Sun Blade 6000 Ethernet Switched 24p 10GbE NEM (X2073A).

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• Each node has its own service processor based on the AST2100 chip providing Oracle Integrated Lights Out Management (ILOM version 3.0), and a shared 10/100 Ethernet management port.

• Each node supports the addition of an optional 24 GB Sun Flash Module (FMod), which provides fast and reliable solid-state storage and a secure local boot source for the node.

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  Note - Server module nodes do not support the installation of a RAID Expansion Module (REM). However, each node has one chassis PCIe EM slot available which could be used for a supported external host bus adapter (HBA) connected to external storage.

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• Each node has an internal USB port (under the service processor board at the back of the blade) for the addition of an optional USB flash drive for local storage.

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