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C H A P T E R
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Introduction to the Sun Fire V20z
Server
The Sun Fire V20z server is an AMD Opteron™ processor-based enterprise-class 1U
2P server. The Sun Fire V20z server provides performance and value to an enterprise
environment, offering significantly better performance than current 32-bit Intel-
based solutions. The AMD Opteron processor implements the x86-64 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.
The balanced server design maximizes overall performance through industry-
leading I/O options, and delivers compelling real-world workload performance.
The Sun Fire V20z server includes an embedded service processor, flash memory,
RAM, a separate Ethernet interface, and server management software. It comes
equipped with superior server management tools for greater control and minimum
total cost of ownership. You can use the command line interface or SNMP
integration with third party frameworks to configure and manage the platform with
the service processor. The dedicated service processor provides complete operating
system independence and maximum availability of server management.