Sun | Sun Fire X4270 Server
Introduced in May of 2009 as one of the replacements for the Sun Fire X4250, the Sun Fire X4270 is a rack-optimized (2RU) x64 server that is ideal for low-to-moderate complexity virtualization, as an infrastructure server for virtual desktop functions in departmental or branch-office settings, data center consolidation, collaboration, and communications infrastructure (email).
The Sun Fire X4270 is part of the popular line of Sun ‘X’ servers that started with the X2100, and includes the X2200 M2, X2250, X2270, X4100, X4140, X4150, X4170, X4200, X4240, X4250, X4275, X4440, X4500, X4540, X4600 M2, and the X4640.
This server uses one or two quad core Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors, up to 144 GB of RAM, and up to 16 hotplug 146, or 300 GB 10K RPM or 73 GB 15K RPM 2.5” disk drives; 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA disk drives; or 32GB solid state drives.
Nearly identical to the X4275, it differs in that it uses up to 16 of the 2.5” disk drives compared to the X4275 using up to 12 of the 3.5” drives, and it has a DVD-RW drive, which the X4275 does not.
The X4270 supports multiple operating systems including Solaris 10 10/08 (U6) 64-bit or later; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7, 32-bit and 64-bit; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, 64-bit; SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, (SP2) 64-bit; Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, (SP2) 32-bit and 64-bit; Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, 32 and 64-bit; Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, 32-bit and 64-bit; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, (SP2), 32-bit and 64-bit; and VMware ESX.
The Sun Fire X4270 is part of the popular line of Sun ‘X’ servers that started with the X2100, and includes the X2200 M2, X2250, X2270, X4100, X4140, X4150, X4170, X4200, X4240, X4250, X4275, X4440, X4500, X4540, X4600 M2, and the X4640.
This server uses one or two quad core Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors, up to 144 GB of RAM, and up to 16 hotplug 146, or 300 GB 10K RPM or 73 GB 15K RPM 2.5” disk drives; 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA disk drives; or 32GB solid state drives.
Nearly identical to the X4275, it differs in that it uses up to 16 of the 2.5” disk drives compared to the X4275 using up to 12 of the 3.5” drives, and it has a DVD-RW drive, which the X4275 does not.
The X4270 supports multiple operating systems including Solaris 10 10/08 (U6) 64-bit or later; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7, 32-bit and 64-bit; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, 64-bit; SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, (SP2) 64-bit; Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, (SP2) 32-bit and 64-bit; Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, 32 and 64-bit; Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, 32-bit and 64-bit; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, (SP2), 32-bit and 64-bit; and VMware ESX.
