Sun Fire V880

Sun Fire V880

Sun Fire V880 Overview

Sun Fire V880 UltraSPARC III server introduced in October 2001 as an entry-level high-performance server has become one of the fastest selling systems in the market. The impact ofthe Sun Fire V880 has turned the midrange Unix marketplace upside down. The Sun Fire V880 is a huge price/performance leader over its competition and fulfills the IT manager.s dream of high performance at a very low cost of ownership. The Sun Fire V880 offers enterprise-class reliability, availability, and scalability (RAS) features, including redundant hotswap (N+1) power supplies, hot-plug disks, Automatic System Recovery (ASR), field replaceable components, and Remote System Control (RSC) management tools. Furthermore, many of the features of the enterprise line, like the Sun Fire FirePlane interconnect, and unmatched linear scalability, have been leveraged in the Sun Fire V880. User acceptance of the Sun Fire V880, demonstrated by its leading market share among all eight-way servers worldwide in the few months following its introduction speaks volumes for itself.

Sun Fire V880 Configurability at a Glance

• Two-to-eight UltraSPARC III processors. (Upto 4 proc/mem modules each with 2 Procs)
• A maximum of 64 GB of main memory. (16 Slots per module)
• Fibre Channel disk subsystem supports upto twelve, 73 GB disks.
• Hot-swap PCI slots, disks, power supplies, and cooling fan trays.
• Nine full sized, hot-swap, PCI slots.(2 at 66MHz, 3.3V & 7 at 33MHz, 5V)
• 1GB Ethernet and 10/100BaseT Ethernet
• 40MB/sec, 16-bit, UltraSCSI (SCSI-3), for internal removable media devices only
• 3 Power Supplies with individual power cords
  

Sun Fire V880 Notes

• Sun Fire V880 server supports one to four dual-processor/memory modules, each of which always has two processors.
• The Sun Fire V880 can be Rackmounted with the optional rackmount kit, X9628A.
• The Sun Fire V880 server has a DVD and two half-height bays which may also be combined to provide a single full-height bay. Supports DDS-3 and DDS-4, 4mm drives.
• The Sun Fire V880 sports the 9.6 GBps Sun[tm] Fireplane interconnect.
• The I/O subsystem distributes the integrated controllers and nine available PCI slots over four buses: two at 66 MHz, 64-bits-wide and two at 33 MHz, 64-bits-wide.
• Integrated FC-AL disk controller, 1 Gb Ethernet, separate 10/100Base-T Ethernet, and internal SCSI bus without consuming potentially valuable PCI slots.
• The Sun Fire V880 comes standard with a single disk backplane which supports the first six drives. To expand beyond six, to a maximum of twelve disks a 6-bay internal expansion FC-AL disk backplane will be needed.
• Sun Fire V880 server requires a minimum configuration of two processors and 4 GB of memory, and requires the Solaris 8 10/01 Operating Environment, or later