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Sun Server X4-8 Installation Guide

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Updated: December 2015
 
 

Server Supported Components

The following table lists and describes the components that are supported in the Sun Server X4-8:

Component
Description
CPU module (CMOD)
Four or eight CPU modules, each with one Intel Xeon® E7-8895 V2 processor.
Supported configurations:
  • Four CPU modules installed in slots 0 through 3

  • Eight CPU modules installed in slots 0 through 7

For the latest information on CPU specifications, go to the Sun x86 servers web site and navigate to the Sun Server X4-8 page:
Memory
Up to 192 DIMMs (24 per CPU module)
16GB DDR3 ECC Registered DIMMs or 32GB DDR3 Registered ECC LRDIMMs
6 TB maximum memory capacity
Storage devices
Eight 2.5-inch back accessible, hot swappable SAS-2 hard disk drives (HDDs) or eight 2.5-inch eMLC SATA-3 solid state drives (SSDs) for up to 9.6 TB of internal storage
USB 2.0 ports
Four USB ports (two external, two internal)
VGA ports
One VGA 1280 x1024 8MB @ 60 Hz graphics controller port
PCI Express 3.0 I/O slots
Eight dual PCIe card carriers (DPCC) each with two PCIe 3.0 card slots
Sixteen PCIe 3.0 slots (eight x8 slots, eight x16 slots) hot-swappable using DPCC
PCI Express I/O cards
For a list of customer-orderable I/O cards, go to the Sun x86 servers web site and navigate to the Sun Server X4-8 page:
Ethernet ports
Two 1 Gbps onboard Ethernet ports
Service processor
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager uses an Emulex Pilot 3 baseboard management controller (BMC). It provides:
  • Remote Keyboard, Video, Mouse redirection

  • Full remote management through command-line, IPMI, and browser interfaces

  • Remote media capability (DVD, CD, ISO image)

  • Advanced power management and monitoring

  • Active Directory, LDAP, RADIUS support

  • Dual ILOM flash

  • Signed ILOM

Power supplies
Four redundant, hot-swappable front accessible power supplies
Cooling fans
Eight hot-swappable, redundant fan modules at chassis front; redundant fans in each power supply
Operating systems
  • Oracle Solaris (preinstall option)

  • Oracle Linux (preinstall option)

  • Oracle VM (preinstall option)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server

  • Microsoft Windows Server

  • VMware ESXi

For more information on software go to:
Management software
The following options are available:
  • Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) on the service processor.

  • Oracle System Assistant (OSA) on an optional internal USB flash drive.

  • Oracle Enterprise Management Ops Center, downloadable from the Oracle site.