Enterprise 6500 - Sun Midrange Servers
The Sun E6500 servers hot-swappable modular components make it easy to increase performance and I/O capacity in this highly expandable server. Suns high availability features such as Dynamic Reconfiguration and Alternate Pathing, enable you to add, remove, upgrade, and service system components while the server remains online, thus reducing system downtime.
The E6500's advanced system management software provides effective, easy-to-use tools to manage the powerful resources of the server.
E6500 CPU options:
Single or dual plug-able processor modules on each CPU/Memory board.
336 MHz with 4 MB cache
400 MHz with 4 MB cache
400 MHz with 8 MB cache
Maximum of 16
(Combination of System, I/O boards, and disk boards.)
Maximum of 30 processors on 15 CPU/Memory boards. Must have one I/O board to support system I/O
E6500 Operating System options:
Solaris
E6500 Expansion options:
SBUS I/O board: Three SBUS slots
PCI I/O board: Two PCI slots
Graphics I/O: Two SBUS slots and one UPA Slot
E6500 Disk Bus options:
Fast Wide SCSI, Optical
Memory options:
Sixteen memory slots on each CPU/Memory board
4 GB max in 32 MB, 128 or 256 MB SIMMS.
E6500 Disk options:
Internal disk go on disk expansion cards or by the use rack-mountable disk arrays.
E6500 Interface options:
FCAL,
Fast Wide SCSI-2
100 base-T Ethernet.
E6500 CD options:
Internal
E6500 Floppy options:
Internal
E6500 Upgrade options:
Upgrade disk and video video.
E6500 CPU - Processors are plug-able. Therefore, processor modules can be swapped as needed without changing the system board. If less than maximum boards were originally installed, the system can have boards added as needed.