SunFire X4170

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Notebooks And Computers -While still faithful to use AMD processors for several series of storage and servers, and to develop their own processor (ie SunSparc), Sun Microsystems started using Intel processors for server-server software. One of them is the SunFire X4170 series using the latest Intel Nehalem processor, rather a pair of Intel Xeon processor X5570 Quadcore.
To support processor performance, SunFire X4170 is supported by 18 types of memory card slot that can accommodate DDR3 memory capacity up to 144 Byte Giba. Of course, this is not the ability to play games and are ideal for data centers.

There are 3 types of RAID options provided by NexentaStor, namely: None (JBOD), RAID-Z1 Single Parity (RAID 1), and RAID-Z2 Double Parity (RAID 5). Everything using ZFS as its file system.
In terms of cooling effectiveness, SunFire X4170 is supported by 16 fruit fan specially designed to remove heat, especially from the processor and hard drive. This hot air flows into the air grille that resembles a beehive at the top, back and front of the server. Special, these fans are hotswap. That is, can be exchanged directly removed without turning off the server. Special fans are gathered in a special compartment in the rear compartment so that the disk can be accessed without opening the protective processor and memory.
Two power supply units are installed in the back of the server are arranged in a redundant and hotswap. Designed so that if one of them down memerlihatkan symptoms, the task will soon be taken over by others.
For about network hardware, SunFire X4170 is equipped with 4 pieces of your network card transfer speed 1000 Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) is also arranged in such a way that supports the High scenario Avalability (HA).
We tried to see the performance of individual components using the tools SunFire X4170 Si Soft Sandra Lite. Our benchmark results show in table form. In general, processors that use this server bandwidth inter-core (core) is quite good. Memory chips are also present speed pretty good.

SunFire X4170 shows excellent performance in many ways, especially processor and memory performance. Most remarkable performance is the series of RAID hard disk with ZFS file system. Combination of processor performance, memory, file system typical Solaris operating system capable of presenting an alternative SunFire X4170 system or data center server virtualization for the enterprise.