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The Sun Fire E6900 Server is a highly-available midrange server scaling up to 24 UltraSPARC IV processors with chip multithreading technology executing 48 simultaneous computing threads.

Ideal for consolidation, data warehousing, decision support and high performance technical computing applications, the E6900 also features Full Hardware Redundancy, fault-isolated Dynamic System Domains, and Dynamic Reconfiguration for hot swapping key server components.

The E6900 server protects your investment with the ability to mix and manage UltraSPARC IV and UltraSPARC III processors- running at their rated speeds - in the same system.

• Processor: 4 to 24 UltraSPARC IV and UltraSPARC III Cu processors
• Memory: Up to 192GB memory per domain
• Disk: Sun StorEdge D240 Media Tray, Sun StorEdge S1 Array, up to (optional) 219 GB capacity and 1U form factor
• 9.6 GB/sec Sun Fireplane interconnect; system bus with redundant data, address, and response crossbar interconnect
• Up to six Uniboard CPU/memory boards, with four processors each and up to 32 GB per board; maximum 24 processors per system
• 32 PCI slots (8 at 66 MHz; 24 at 33 MHz)
• Full hardware redundancy, fault-isolated Dynamic System Domains, Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR), redundant network connections, redundant storage connections
• Auto Diagnosis and Recovery, kernel hot-patching, hardened operating system kernel, live operating system upgrades, journaling file system, hardened I/O drivers, CPU off-lining, memory page retirement, after-kernel hot patching, and cluster support
• Solaris 8 (02/04), Solaris 9 (04/04) or later