For Oracle application users the company is now pushing an integrated package with X86 servers preloaded with Sun Solaris and Oracle  Linux  operating systems and Oracle VM. 

 

From a power and cooling angle Oracle said: ‘The Sun Fire X2270 M2 server helps maintain cost-effective data center operation. The chassis of the Sun Fire X2270 M2 server is cooled with front-to-back airflow. A sensor within the service processor modulates fan speed. In the absence of the ILOM service processor daughtercard, the BIOS performs this function. The service processor reads the fan speeds and turns the fan fault LED on if the RPM falls under a specific threshold. The Sun Fire X2270 M2 server provides a single 600 W power supply. To assist with proactive maintenance, the system actively monitors the power supply.’

 

In a Whitepaper commissioned by Oracle, analyst company IDC said: ‘Oracle has integrated Sun hardware with Oracle's software applications and management tools. Oracle's Sun Blade portfolio, which includes server, storage, networking, and management components, is combined with Oracle middleware, database software, and applications. The result is a converged system, preengineered and precertified, that can be  efficiently  deployed, supported, and upgraded as a single entity.’ 

 

Like all converged systems benefits promised include speed of deployment, simplified management and reduced maintainence and avoidance of over provisioning. 

 

‘New converged systems that are coming to market offer the value of ease of installation and simplicity of management. Convergence not only lowers complexity for customers but  also  acts as an enabling vehicle for an IaaS  shared service model of computing, one that maximizes hardware utilization, improves availability, contains management costs, and reduces time to deployment.’

"Oracle delivers differentiated enterprise-class solutions for the x86 server market with its integrated application-to-disk approach and unique end-to-end Oracle Premier Support capabilities," said Ali Alasti, vice president of hardware engineering, Oracle. "With outstanding performance and operational efficiency, these new systems combine with Oracle software to provide a rock-solid foundation for enterprise consolidation and private cloud deployments."

 

‘Converged systems are placing customers on an evolutionary path toward the building of private clouds within their IT environments. IT  infrastructures are transforming from disparate resource silos to virtual resource pools. However, these new systems must be able to be deployed into an existing datacenter alongside a customer's legacy infrastructure and also implemented on an adoption curve that is not disruptive to the enterprise's operations,’ it says.