Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide - SCN Research

CHAPTER 1
System Overview
This chapter introduces you to the Sun Fire V445 server and describes its features.
The following sections are included:
■ “Sun Fire V445 Server Overview” on page 1
■ “New Features” on page 7
■ “Locating Front Panel Features” on page 8
■ “Locating Back Panel Features” on page 15
■ “Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) Features” on page 21
■ “Sun Cluster Software” on page 21
■ “Sun Management Center Software” on page 22
Note – This document does not provide instructions for installing or removing
hardware components. For instructions on preparing the system for servicing and
procedures to install and remove the server components described in this document,
refer to the Sun Fire V445 Server Service Manual.
Sun Fire V445 Server Overview
The Sun Fire V445 server is a high-performance, shared memory, symmetric
multiprocessing server that supports up to four UltraSPARC® IIIi processors and
uses the Fire ASIC PCI-Express NorthBridge along with PCI-X and PCIe expansion
slots. The UltraSPARC IIIi processor has a 1 Mbyte L2 cache and implements the
SPARC® V9 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and the Visual Instruction Set
extensions (Sun VIS software) that accelerate multimedia, networking, encryption,
and Java software processing. The Fire ASIC provides higher I/O performance
and interfaces with the I/O subsystem, which contains 4 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet
ports, 8 SAS disk drives, 1 DVD-RW drive, 4 USB ports, a POSIX compliant DB-9
serial port, and service processor communication ports. The PCI expansion
subsystem is configurable with a variety of plug in third party adapters.
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