Sun Microsystems FIRE V40Z - Manual (Page 23)

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Introduction
Overview
Strong server-management capabilities are crucial to maintaining mission-critical
servers. Advance notification of problems and rapid diagnosis and correction are
critical functions to an environment in which a few servers bear the bulk of the
workload. The Sun Fire™ V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers and their extensive
server-management capabilities lower costs by reducing failure and by potentially
eliminating hands-on management.
This document describes how to perform remote management on the Sun Fire V20z
and Sun Fire V40z servers.
The Sun Fire V20z server is an AMD Opteron processor-based, enterprise-class
one-rack-unit (1U), two-processor (2P) server. The Sun Fire V40z server is also an
AMD Opteron processor-based server, but is a three-rack-unit (3U), four-processor
(4P) server.
The AMD Opteron processor implements the x86-64-bit architecture, which delivers
significant memory capacity and bandwidth with twice the memory capacity and up
to three times the memory bandwidth of existing x86-32-bit servers.
These servers include an embedded Service Processor (SP), flash memory, RAM, a
separate Ethernet interface, and server-management software. They come equipped
with superior server-management tools for greater control and minimum total cost
of ownership. You can use the command-line interface (CLI), SNMP integration with
third-party frameworks, or IPMI to configure and manage the platform with the SP.
The dedicated SP provides complete operating-system independence and maximum
availability of server management.