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High End Servers

When you need to deliver mission critical services, or enterprise-level consolidation/virtualisation solutions - with extreme scalability, but without the cost of a mainframe - Sun's SPARC Enterprise M8000 server brings mainframe-class reliability, availability and scalability to open systems computing.

This high-end server delivers the best of SPARC/Solaris 10 computing, together with industry leading virtualisation capabilities.

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server Gallery

Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server Gallery

At a Glance

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server	Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server
Optimised for 24x7, mission critical computing
Features up to 32 or 64 high performance dual core SPARC64 VI processors and up to 2 TB memory	Features up to 16 high performance dual core SPARC64 VI processors and up to 512 GB memory
Mainframe Reliability, Availability and Serviceability capabilities
Ideal consolidation platform - with up to 24 dynamic domains and each system supports thousands of Solaris Containers	Ideal consolidation platform - with up to 16 dynamic domains and each system supports thousands of Solaris Containers
Up to 288 PCIe or PCI-X slots with the external I/O expansion unit	Up to 112 PCIe or PCI-X slots with the external I/O expansion unit
Includes Solaris 10, pre-installed
Available as a Sun System Pack - which combines the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 with appropriate services, as one offering	Available as a Sun System Pack - which combines the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 with appropriate services, as one offering