Succeed with Sun
Saturday, July 4th, 2009The computer has changed the way we live in every way. From the way we get our groceries to the way we transport ourselves place to place.
Just such a focus has been endeavoured in the EU. A great model for the success of streamlining the efficiency of data servers is the German city of Bad Soden am Taunus. Bad Soden am Taunus is a small city of approximately 21.500 residents.
The administration of this municipality is very much dependant on Information Technology (IT). However, their servers were not operating very efficiently. They were employing 16 distributed servers and using outdated desktop tower servers. There were over 100 desktops in use. The municipality decided upon
The servers that hold and distribute all of this information are the focal point of that energy requirement. The amount of hardware necessary to store this information and the energy it takes to cool these systems are the main culprits. Solutions are needed. As we find ways to reduce the hardware necessary to store all of our information, we will also reduce the energy it takes to cool these servers and save ourselves money while reducing our impact on the environment.
Strongly recommended were the use of redundant server infrastructure and the Sun UltraThin Clients SunRay, creating the virtual desktop infrastructure. Comparisons were made between the old infrastructure and the new infrastructure by the use of Windows performance monitor. The employment of these modernization techniques resulted in an overall Bad Soden am Taunus municipality IT energy consumption reduction of 61%.
One technique is the employment of Virtual Desktop infrastructure. A product that achieves this is VMware View. This portfolio of products allows IT to run virtual desktops from the data center giving the user personalized desktop views from whatever device they choose to use, from any location.
Hard Disk: Hard Disk Supported- 48 hot swappable, 3.5″ SATA II Disk RAID configurations- SW RAID enabled by RAID-Z in Solaris ZFS for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and RAID z2 for RAID 6
Standard/Integrated Interfaces : Network - 4 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, RJ45 connector Serial - 1 TIA/EIA-232-F asynchronous RJ45 connector Network Management - 1 dedicated 10/100Base-T Ethernet port, RJ45 connector Serial - 1 TIA/EIA-232-F asynchronous RJ45 connector All these features and many more make the Sun Fire X4540 servers the absolute best choice for compact design and efficiency.