Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Server User Guide

This chapter gives an overview of the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers. It lists the features of the servers, the contents of the ship kit, and summarizes the installation process.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Overview of the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Servers
• System Components
• Front Panel and Peripheral Bays
• Front Panel Controls and Indicators
• Rear Panel Ports and Features
• Server Main Board
• Contents of the Ship Kit
• Replaceable Components
• Optional RJ-45 to DB9 Serial Adapter Kit
• Installation Quickstart

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1.1 Overview of the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Servers

The Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers are shown in FIGURE 1-1. The Sun Fire V60x server is a single- or dual-processor server in a 1 rack unit (1U) chassis (1U is 1.75" of vertical rack space). The Sun Fire V65x server is a single- or dual-processor server in a 2 rack unit (2U) chassis (2U is 3.5" of vertical rack space). The bezels shown in the figure are installed by the user.

 FIGURE 1-1 Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Servers

1.1.1 Sun Fire V60x Server

The Sun Fire V60x server is a 1U rack mount server chassis designed for use with the Ultra320 SCSI server board. The Sun Fire V60x server provides the following features:

• Two drive bays dedicated for hard disk drives (HDDs) and one flex bay that can support either a slimline CD ROM drive and floppy disk drive, or a slimline DVD ROM drive and floppy disk drive. A hard drive bay can be substituted for the CD ROM drive/3.5 inch drive or DVD ROM/3.5 inch drive.
• Full integration with the built in management features of the server board.
• Support for one low profile PCI X card and one full-height/full-length PCI X card on two separate riser boards.
• Redundant cooling.
• Front panel support for bootable USB 1.1 devices.
• Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet

1.1.2 Sun Fire V65x Server

The Sun Fire V65x server is a 2U rack mount server chassis designed for use with the Ultra320 SCSI server board. The Sun Fire V65x server provides the following features:

• Six dedicated hard drive bays.
• One flex bay that can support either a slimline CD ROM drive and floppy disk drive, or a slimline DVD ROM drive and floppy disk drive. A tape drive bay can be substituted for the CD ROM drive/3.5 inch drive or DVD ROM/3.5 inch drive.
• Support for three low-profile PCI X cards and three full-height/full-length PCI X cards on two separate riser boards.
• Optional hot swap, redundant power supply.
• Full integration with the built in management features of the server board.
• Redundant cooling.
• Front panel support for bootable USB 1.1 devices.
• Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet

1.1.3 Applications

The Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers are high-performance servers built for high-density rack-mount applications.

The Sun Fire V60x server is ideally suited to support:

• Horizontally scalable applications
• Web services
• Security services
• Application front-end services
• Proxy and cache services

• Load-balanced server clusters
• High performance computing clusters
• Any application that requires a high-performance, high-density, and highly available server but has limited data storage requirements

The Sun Fire V65x server is ideally suited to support:

• Entry-level business services
• Entry-level database services
• Messaging services
• Any rack-mount application for a general-purpose expandable server

The Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers are primarily intended as building blocks for Internet infrastructure. This includes support for e-Business services as well as network-specific services.

1.1.3.1 e-Business Services

Examples of e-Business services include:

• Web/Horizontally Scalable Services

The Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers can supply both Internet and intranet horizontally scalable services that provide simple, static Web pages, or serve as a portal to more robust dynamic pages or a set of e-Business applications. This scenario typically uses a set of 1U servers configured as members of a load balancing cluster.

• Multimedia Services

The Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers can provide streaming audio and/or video media to intranet and/or Internet users. This scenario typically employs a number of 1U servers connected to a large drive array.

• Messaging Services

You can use the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers to provide inbound and outbound messaging for intranet and/or Internet users. This scenario can include one or more 1U servers acting as a relay agent for a larger email server where the relay server does not store messages and thus does not require significant storage capacity.

1.1.3.2 Network Infrastructure Services

Examples of network infrastructure services include:

• Security Services

The server provides firewall services, public key processing for secure transactions, and any other applications that provide network security. These services typically run on one or more 1U servers that are positioned between the users (both internal and external) and sensitive data on a secure network.

• Proxy Services and Web Caching Server

One or more servers located close to the edge of the secure network, but behind the firewall, can act as an intermediary between Web clients and Web server and/or cache commonly accessed Web objects (pages, graphics and sound). Proxy services provide a level of security and user control. Caching services typically improve the response times of commonly used Web sites, since the objects can be loaded from the cache over the local area network instead of pulling the objects from a remote site over a slower wide area network connection. These services typically run on a set of clustered 1U servers.

• Network Load Balancing Server

This is a specialized application that balances access requests among a set of servers providing identical services. Such an application is typically used with Web services but can be used for any number of other applications. This type of service can be provided by a dedicated application running on a single server that collects all inbound requests and distributes these requests evenly to a set of servers.

• High Performance Computing Cluster

This is a specialized application designed to pool the processing resources of multiple servers to act as a single server. High performance computing clusters are used in situations where large amounts of processing power are needed, such as rendering of large graphics, video editing and manipulation and calculating large mathematical equations. These clusters are designed around low-profile rack mount servers to maximize processor density in a rack.

1.1.4 Features

The Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers have the following hardware and software features (see Chapter 7 for more details):

• Hardware Features
• Single or dual Intel® Xeon self-terminating processors^[1].
• Redundant processors for Fault Resilient Booting (FRB).
• Six DIMM sockets (a maximum of 12 GB of main memory with 2 GB DIMMs for the Sun Fire V65x server, and a maximum of 6 GB of main memory with 1 GB DIMMs for the Sun Fire V60x server).
• Three independent PCI busses.
• Three USB 1.1 ports.
• COM2 Serial Emergency Management Port (EMP) at rear RJ-45 socket^[2].
• Support for up to three (Sun Fire V60x server) or six (Sun Fire V65x server) tray-mounted SCSI hard disk drives. The drives can be Ultra2, Ultra160, or Ultra 320 SCA2 in a low-profile form factor (3.5" x 1"). One drive bay is flexible and is configured, by default, with a combination floppy drive/CD-ROM module.
• Rear SCSI expansion connector.
• Accommodates two plug-in PCI riser boards (one low-profile and one full-height/full-length).
• Rack mounting with brackets, (or, optional slide-rail mounting).
• Power Supply

Sun Fire V60x server: Single 350 W power supply with redundant fans

Sun Fire V65x server: Single 500 W power supply or dual 500 W power supplies with redundant 1 + 1 operation (not hot swappable)

• Two Ethernet ports (10/100/1000 Mbps RJ-45 NIC ports on rear panel).
• PS/2 keyboard/mouse port with Y adapter.
• Front and rear VGA output ports (one each on front and rear panel).
• Front panel controls and indicators.
• Fault and status LEDs throughout the server board.

• Software Features
• Advanced memory error correction.
• Advanced Server Management tools, including:

Support for a bootable service partition
Remote management
Full event alerting either over the network or through a serial device
Serial over LAN (SOL) support
Command Line Interface (CLI)
Remote power control (on/off)

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1.2 System Components

FIGURE 1-2 shows the Sun Fire V60x server system components and FIGURE 1-3 shows the Sun Fire V65x server system components.

 FIGURE 1-2 Sun Fire V60x Server System Components

 FIGURE 1-3 Sun Fire V65x Server System Components

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1.3 Front Panel and Peripheral Bays

FIGURE 1-4 shows the Sun Fire V60x server front panel connectors, indicators, and peripheral bays. FIGURE 1-5 shows the Sun Fire V65x server.

 FIGURE 1-4 Sun Fire V60x Server Front Panel and Peripheral Bays

 FIGURE 1-5 Sun Fire V65x Server Front Panel and Peripheral Bays

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1.4 Front Panel Controls and Indicators

FIGURE 1-6 shows details of the Sun Fire V60x server front panel controls and indicators. FIGURE 1-7 shows the Sun Fire V65x server.

 FIGURE 1-6 Sun Fire V60x Server Front Panel Controls and Indicators

 FIGURE 1-7 Sun Fire V65x Server Front Panel Controls and Indicators

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1.5 Rear Panel Ports and Features

FIGURE 1-8 shows the Sun Fire V60x server rear panel and FIGURE 1-9 shows the Sun Fire V65x server rear panel.

 FIGURE 1-8 Sun Fire V60x Server Rear Panel Ports and Features

 FIGURE 1-9 Sun Fire V65x Server Rear Panel Ports and Features

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1.6 Server Main Board

FIGURE 1-10 shows the main board layout. The same main board is used for both the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers.

 FIGURE 1-10 Server Main Board

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1.7 Contents of the Ship Kit

The Sun Fire V60x server is supplied with the components shown in TABLE 1-1. The components for the Sun Fire V65x server are shown in TABLE 1-2

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1.8 Replaceable Components

The replaceable components on the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers are shown in TABLE 1-3 and TABLE 1-4. Some of the components are considered to be customer-replaceable units (CRUs), and some are considered to be field-replaceable units (FRUs), replaceable only by an authorized Sun Microsystems, Inc. field service technician. Also, some components are extra-cost options that can be ordered from Sun Microsystems.

For the Sun Fire V60x server, TABLE 1-3 lists the components that are customer-replaceable, Sun-replaceable, and extra cost options.

For the Sun Fire V65x server, TABLE 1-4 lists the components that are customer-replaceable, Sun-replaceable, and extra cost options.

For detailed instructions on how to replace components, see Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) Procedures.

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1.9 Optional RJ-45 to DB9 Serial Adapter Kit

The optional RJ-45 to DB9 Serial Adapter Kit consists of the following RJ-45 to DB9 adapter cables:

• DSR Peripherals cable (for rear panel Data Set Ready (DSR) peripherals).
• DCD Modem cable (for rear panel Data Carrier Detect (DCD) modem).

These adapter cables can be used to connect the COM2 Emergency Management Port (EMP) on the back of the server to a device such as a modem or serial concentrator to administer remote server management.

1.9.1 DSR Peripherals Cable

This cable is wired for serial concentrators that use the DSR signal. See Rear Panel RJ-45 Serial COM2 Connector for more information on how to use this adapter cable.

1.9.2 DCD Modem Cable

This cable is wired for serial concentrators that use the DCD signal, and for connecting to a modem. See Rear Panel RJ-45 Serial COM2 Connector for more information on how to use this adapter cable.

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1.10 Installation Quickstart

TABLE 1-5 is a simplified summary of the steps you need to follow to install and configure the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x servers.

^{1 (Footnote) A single processor server must have a processor installed in processor socket 1 and socket 2 must be empty (no terminator is required). Processor 1 is the processor nearest the center of the board. Processor 2 is located near the edge of the board.}

^{2 (Footnote) An internal header is also available on the Sun Fire V65x server that can be used to provide an optional external serial port (COM1).}

^{3 (Footnote) Memory DIMMs must be installed in matched pairs (DIMM 1A with DIMM 1B, DIMM 2A with DIMM 2B, and DIMM 3A with DIMM 3B).}

^{4 (Footnote) When upgrading from one to two CPUs, the CPUs must be of identical revision, core voltage, and bus/core speed. The CPUs must also be no greater that ±1 stepping apart. If the CPUs do not meet these criteria, the server pauses during the boot process. In addition, the board hardware and baseboard management controller (BMC) must read the processor VID (voltage identification) bits for each processor before turning on the processor voltage regulator module (VRM). If the VIDs of the two processors are not identical, the BMC does not turn on the VRM and a beep code is generated.}

^{5 (Footnote) The DH10 to DB9 flat cable serial port adapter for COM1 is only for use with the Sun Fire V65x server.}

^{6 (Footnote) A third hard disk drive can be substituted for the floppy/CD-ROM unit, if desired.}

^{7 (Footnote) A third hard disk drive can be substituted for the floppy/CD-ROM/DVD unit, if desired.}

^{8 (Footnote) The System FRU is a full server without processors, DIMMs, HDDs, or a floppy/CD-ROM combo unit.}

^{9 (Footnote) The Main Board contains no DIMMs or CPUs, and is packaged in an ESD bag with two foam pads and an ESD wrist strap.}

^{10 (Footnote) Memory DIMMs must be installed in matched pairs (DIMM 1A with DIMM 1B, DIMM 2A with DIMM 2B, and DIMM 3A with DIMM 3B).}

^{11 (Footnote) When upgrading from one to two CPUs, the CPUs must be of identical revision, core voltage, and bus/core speed. The CPUs must also be no greater that ±1 stepping apart. If the CPUs do not meet these criteria, the server pauses during the boot process. In addition, the board hardware and baseboard management controller (BMC) must read the processor VID (voltage identification) bits for each processor before turning on the processor voltage regulator module (VRM). If the VIDs of the two processors are not identical, the BMC does not turn on the VRM and a beep code is generated.}

^{12 (Footnote) The DH10 to DB9 flat cable serial port adapter for COM1 is only for use with the Sun Fire V65x server.}

^{13 (Footnote) The System FRU is a full server without processors, DIMMs, HDDs, or a floppy/CD-ROM combo unit.}

^{14 (Footnote) The Main Board contains no DIMMs or CPUs, and is packaged in an ESD bag with two foam pads and an ESD wrist strap.}

Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Server User Guide

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