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Oracle this week revealed an upgraded version of its Sun Fire x86 systems data center stack that includes a series of new Intel-powered blade servers, five new rack mount servers, and a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet cluster networking module.
According to Oracle, the new Sun Fire systems are aimed at enterprises that run a mix of Oracle and non-Oracle workloads across a variety of systems.
Each single x86-based cluster can support up to 720 Sun Fire blades. The new systems ship preloaded with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux (either Red Hat or Novell SUSE), and Oracle VM. They can be reconfigured to work as needed with VMware's vSphere virtualization layer and Windows Server and Exchange.
Networking is handled by two devices: a Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE Network Express Module router and a Sun Network 10GbE switch. Both are designed to slide into a 19-inch rack next to blades, replacing larger, standard-sized network switch and router boxes.
Network virtualization functions are embedded in blade processors. The new systems are controlled by one central management facility, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.
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