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Building on the industry's most open and versatile enterprise blade platform, one can now design modular solutions that are rapid to deploy, easy to scale and redeploy as business needs change. Leveraging Sun's extensive list of solution partners, this Modular Solutions Community enables IT solution developers and IT managers to explore, plan, and gain support on how to deploy highly modular IT solutions, taking full advantage of the flexibility, efficiency and cost effective Sun Blade Modular Systems.


How-To Interactive Videos

Sun Blade 6000 Modular System - Chassis Monitoring Module Interactive Demo

See all the options that the Chassis Monitoring Module in the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System has to offer in this interactive online demo. Learn more.

Sun Blade X6250 Server Module SAN Installation Demo

See how a system can be installed to boot from SAN.
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  1. Jan 14, 2008

    t.wiik says:

    Hi, it would be nice to see information about the Blade 6000 Firmware (Chassis ...

    Hi,

    it would be nice to see information about the Blade 6000 Firmware (Chassis CMM as well as X6250 Bios / ILOM) roadmap.

    The current versions a fare behind the X4200 M2
    Bios / ILOM Product quality.

    1. Jan 24, 2008

      Charles_Soto says:

      I agree 100%. Our Chassis and X6250s work great, but we've had issues with the ...

      I agree 100%. Our Chassis and X6250s work great, but we've had issues with the ILOM (mostly storage redirection).

  2. Feb 20, 2008

    Daniel-SLC says:

    This seems like a simple question, but I cannot find the answer so far. Do the ...

    This seems like a simple question, but I cannot find the answer so far.

    Do the blades in the Sun Blade 6000 chassis only communicate between themselves using an external networking fabric or is there an internal bus that allows for faster networking connections?

    Would load balancing still take place through an external network fabric or is there something internally?

    Thanks, Daniel

    1. Feb 20, 2008

      francisl says:

      There Sun Blade 6000 chassis is designed based on PCIe chassis mid plane. It sup...

      There Sun Blade 6000 chassis is designed based on PCIe chassis mid plane. It supports industry standard PCIe ExpressModule that makes it easy to connect to external networking switches of your choice. There is no provision for internal switching fabric that tends to limit flexibility and compatibility with your existing networking environment.

      Load balancing will typically reside external to the chassis in this case.

      Please take a look at the I/O architecture of Sun Blade here.

      http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/design.jsp

      This dramatically simplify blade chassis architecture, making it more flexible and reliable with little management overhead.

      Regards,
      Francis

      1. Sep 08, 2008

        rehlich says:

        Hi, on the mentioned docu I could not find how one can use a shared memory acros...

        Hi,
        on the mentioned docu I could not find how one can use a shared memory across CPU modules. Is a library or
        Solaris support for shared memory available or does the costumer have to implement it? What's the speed to keep memories synchronized? Is there a difference between the different blade systems in SHM handling?
        Thanks,
        Kay

  3. Jun 22

    AlainG says:

    The How-To Interactive Videos links are broken, I get file not founf for both.

    The How-To Interactive Videos links are broken, I get file not founf for both.

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