SunFire

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The Sun Fire series is a range of UNIX server computers produced by Sun Microsystems from 2001 onwards, superseding the Sun Enterprise series. Initially, all Sun Fire systems were based on the UltraSPARC 64-bit microprocessor architecture; some later models use Intel IA-32 or AMD64 architecture processors and are essentially PC compatible servers.

UltraSPARC-based Sun Fire models run the Solaris Operating Environment; IA-32 or AMD64-based Sun Fires support Solaris x86 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 as options depending on model.

Later Sun Fire model numbers have prefixes indicating the type of system thus:

V: low-end and mid-range servers (UltraSPARC, IA-32 or AMD64)
E: enterprise-class servers with high-availability features (UltraSPARC)
B: blade servers (UltraSPARC or IA-32)
X: rack-mount AMD64-based servers
T: servers based on UltraSPARC T-series CoolThreads processors

For a while Sun used an x suffix to denote IA-32 architecture systems and a z suffix for AMD64 architecture systems, but this convention was later dropped. The z suffix was previously also used to differentiate the V880z Visualization Server variant of the V880 server.

All the system below not marked as EOL (End of Life) are still in production.

Contents

1 UltraSPARC models
2 AMD64 models
3 IA-32 models
4 External links

UltraSPARC models

A Sun Fire T2000

Early models (EOL)
*Sun Fire 280R
*Sun Fire 3800
*Sun Fire 4800
*Sun Fire 4810
*Sun Fire 6800
B Series (EOL)
*Sun Fire B100s
T Series
*Sun Fire T1000
*Sun Fire T2000
V Series
*Sun Fire V210
*Sun Fire V240
*Sun Fire V440
*Sun Fire V480
*Sun Fire V490
*Sun Fire V890
*Sun Fire V1280
V Series (EOL)
*Sun Fire V100
*Sun Fire V120
*Sun Fire V250
*Sun Fire V880
*Sun Fire V880z Visualization Server
E Series
*Sun Fire E2900
*Sun Fire E4900
*Sun Fire E6900
*Sun Fire E12K (EOL)
*Sun Fire E15K (EOL)
*Sun Fire E20K
*Sun Fire E25K

AMD64 models

V Series
*Sun Fire V20z (EOL)
*Sun Fire V40z
X Series
*Sun Fire X2100
*Sun Fire X4100
*Sun Fire X4200
*Sun Fire X4500
*Sun Fire X4600

IA-32 models

V Series (EOL)
*Sun Fire V60x (Xeon)
*Sun Fire V65x (Xeon)
B Series (EOL)
*Sun Fire B100x (AMD Athlon)
*Sun Fire B200x (Xeon)

External links

[Sun Servers]

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