Multi-tier application consolidation on Sun Blade Systems

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Multi-tier application consolidation on Sun Blade Systems

With an extensive product line, customers can consolidate a broad range of datacenter applications on the cost effective and highly efficient modular architecture of the Sun Blade Systems. Depending on their application needs, customers can choose Sun UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processor architecture, as well as a variety of enterprise Operating Systems such as Solaris, VMware, Linux or Windows.

Below are a few real-life customer examples and solutions on the Sun Blade Systems. If you have any customer architecture you would like to share with the community, click here.

Retail Web Customer Architecture on Sun Blade 8000
Oracle's PeopleSoft CRM on Sun Blade 8000

Retail Web Customer Architecture on Sun Blade 8000

A major online retailer implemented a Sun Blade 8000 based solution that has achieved 100% availability for the 2007 holiday season. The Sun Blade 8000 chassis with Sun Blade X8420 Server Modules combined with Sun Fire X4500 storage servers for image & video storage and Sun StorageTek 6140 for the database tier provided the highest performing and most cost-effective business solution for the combination of Apache Web Server, J2EE Application Server, Oracle 9i DB and Search Server applications.

Benefits

• Extreme scalability
• AMD Opteron processors combined with large I/O bandwidth capabilities gave customer advantages of commodity hardware with Sun Availability
• I/O Flexibility/Simplicity through the use of the Sun Blade Modular System cable once architecture was seen as an advantage over existing HP C-Class chassis.

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Oracle's PeopleSoft CRM on Sun Blade 8000

A major online retailer implemented a Sun Blade 8000 based solution for their Oracle CRM system environment. The Sun Blade 8000 chassis with X8440 Server Modules provides the most flexible and most cost-effective business solution implementing the Oracle CRM software.

Benefits

• Extreme Scalability
• AMD Opteron processors combined with large memory configurations gave customer advantages of commodity hardware with Sun Availability.
• I/O Flexibility/Simplicity through the use of the Sun Blade Modular System cable once architecture was seen as an advantage over competing blade systems from Dell.

Suggested Configurations

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