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1-28 SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Overview Guide • December 2010
FIGURE 1-12 External I/O Expansion Unit
1.5.3 M9000 Server (Expansion Cabinet) Option
An M9000 server (base cabinet) configuration can contain up to 32 CPU modules (64
cores for SPARC64 VI processors, 128 cores for SPARC64 VII/SPARC64 VII+
processors), up to 2 TB of memory, and up to 224 PCI slots. A configuration
containing more components than described above would require the expansion
cabinet option of the M9000 server.
A configuration with the M9000 server (expansion cabinet) can contain up to 64 CPU
modules (128 cores for SPARC64 VI processors, 256 cores for SPARC64 VII/SPARC64
VII+ processors), up to 4 TB of memory, and up to 288 PCI slots.
For information about connecting the M9000 server (expansion cabinet) and the
M9000 server (base cabinet), see the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers
Installation Guide.
1.6 Software Features
The M8000/M9000 servers use XSCF for system administration and monitoring.
The Oracle Solaris OS can be installed as the operating environment used in a
domain.
For details, see Chapter 3.