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Sun Fire Product Overview |
This chapter discusses the features and capacity of the Sun Fire E6900 and Sun Fire E4900 systems.
This family of servers provides entry-level to high-end server functionality. The Sun Fire E6900 system has space for internal peripherals mounted within the 19-inch cabinet. You have the flexibility with the remaining system to install it in industry-standard 19-inch cabinets or have it preinstalled in a Sun Fire system cabinet. The Sun Fire system cabinet can hold one Sun Fire E4900 system.
The standard features of these systems include:
The Sun Fire E6900 and E4900 systems share the following components:
Two machine configurations are available:
The Sun Fire E6900 system has support for six CPU/Memory boards, four I/O assemblies, four Repeater boards, and two System Controller boards. Although there are four Repeater boards, they are logically two redundant repeaters (two boards together make up one logical repeater). FIGURE 1-2 shows front and rear views of the Sun Fire E6900 system cabinet. TABLE 1-1 lists the features of the Sun Fire E6900 system.
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The Sun Fire E4900 system has support for three CPU/Memory boards, two I/O assemblies, two Repeater boards, and two System Controller boards. FIGURE 1-3 shows front and rear views of the Sun Fire E4900 system. TABLE 1-2 lists the features of the Sun Fire E4900 system.
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