DIMMs must be installed in groups of four. Remote monitoring, hot-swappable components and availability features represent enterprise class features at a workgroup server price point. Enterprise class server features in a compact, versatile workgroup server enclosure. High-speed parallel data flows enable minimum latency and maximum system resource utilization for sustained high performance under the heaviest workloads. A 100MB per second FC-AL controller supports up to two hot swap internal 18.2GB 10,000rpm or 36.4GB 10,000rpm disk drives.
Access is via the front of the system with no tools required.
SunCluster 3.0 will be supported on the Sun Fire 280R approximately 45 days after General Availability. High-availability cluster configuration options. The version available at the time of this announcement is Solaris 8 SU3. Subsequent releases and versions of the Solaris 8 operating environment will be supported on the Sun Fire 280R server. Power cords or country kits and other options such as PCI cards and external storage need to be ordered separately.