Oracle SPARC T8-2 Server

About the Oracle SPARC T8-2 Server

• Processor
• •Thirty-two core, 5.0 GHz SPARC M8 processor
• •Up to 256 threads per processor (up to 8 threads per core)
• •Eight Data Analytics Accelerator units per processor, each supporting four concurrent in-memory analytics engines with decompression
• •Thirty-two on-chip encryption instruction accelerators (one per core) with direct non-privileged support for 16 industry-standard cryptographic algorithms: AES, Camellia, CRC32c, DES, 3DES, DH, DSA, ECC, MD5, RSA, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-3, SHA-384, and SHA-512
• •Thirty-two floating-point units and thirty-two Oracle Numbers units per processor (one per core)
• •One random number generator (one per processor)
• Cache Per Processor
• •Level 1: 32 KB instruction and 16 KB data per core
• •Level 2: 256 KB L2 I$ per four cores, 128 KB L2 D$ per core
• •Level 3: 64 MB L3$ on chip
• System Configurations
• •SPARC T8-2 servers are always configured with two SPARC M8 processors; not expandable
• •Sixteen dual inline memory module (DIMM) slots per processor supporting half and fully populated memory configurations using 16, 32, or 64 GB DDR4 DIMMs
  •     ○2 TB maximum memory configuration with 64 GB DIMMs
  • System Architecture
  • •SPARC V9 architecture, ECC protected
  • Inetrfaces
  • •Network: Four 10 GbE (100 Mb/sec, 1 Gb/sec, 10 Gb/sec) ports, full duplex only, auto-negotiating
  • •Disks and internal storage: Two SAS-3 controllers providing hardware RAID 0, 1, and 1E/10 (ZFS file system provides higher levels of RAID)
  • •Expansion bus: Eight low-profile PCIe 3.0 (four x8 and four x16) slots
  • •Ports: Four external USB (two front USB 2.0 and two rear USB 3.0), one RJ45 serial management port, console 100 Mb/1 Gb network port, and two VGA ports (one front, one rear)
  • Internal Storage
  • •Up to eight 600 GB or 1,200 GB 2.5-inch SAS-3 drives
  • •Optional internal storage may be installed within the standard drive bays
  •     ○800 GB solid-state drives (SSDs), maximum of six
  •     ○6.4 TB NVMe drives, maximum of four
  • • • Power Supplies
      • •Two hot-swappable AC 2,000 W redundant (1 + 1) power supplies
      • •Voltage 200 to 240 VAC, frequency 50/60 Hz
      • •Maximum operating input current at 200 VAC: 10 A per cord
      • •Maximum operating input power at 200 VAC: 3,080 W
      • Key Ras Features
  • •Hot-plug disk drives
  • •Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans
  • •Environmental monitoring
  • •Extended memory protection with error correction within single SDRAM, triple-bit detection across SDRAMs, page retirement, memory scrubbing, cyclic redundancy check (CRC), message retry, and lane retire in hardware
  • •DIMM sparing enabled with fully populated memory slots, increasing system reliability and uptime
  • •System Interconnect: message retry, link retrain, and lane failover
  • •Integrated disk controller with RAID 0, 1, and 1E/10
  • •Fault Management Architecture and Predictive Self Healing
• •Live operating system upgrades
• •Firmware updates during system operation
• •Multiple PCIe root complexes for isolated I/O virtualization
• • Operating System
  • Oracle recommends the latest version of Oracle Solaris 11.3 for enhanced performance and functionality, including features enabled by Software in Silicon technology.
  • •Control domain: Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 24 or later
  • •The following versions are supported within guest domains:
    •     ○Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 24 or later
      •     ○Oracle Solaris 10 1/13*
        •     *Plus required patches
  • Virtualization
  • Built-in, no-cost Oracle VM Server for SPARC provides the flexibility and power for running multiple logical domains in a single server. Multiple Oracle Solaris Zones may be run within a single Oracle VM Server for SPARC logical domain.
  • Dimensions
  • •Height: 129.8 mm (5.11 in.); 3U
  • •Width: 436.5 mm (17.185 in.)
  • •Depth: 752.5 mm (29.63 in.)

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