Overview

The SUN Fire V890 was offered in two versions, the "2100" and "A53." The A53 version supported up to (8) UltraSPARC IV+ 1.8 GHz CPUs (2 per CPU Board) while the 2100 version supported up to (8) 2.1 GHz CPUs across (4) CPU Boards.

All V890s support up to 128GB of memory via (64) DIMM slots. All DIMM slots must be filled. (16) Banks of memory are available per CPU board, so all (4) CPU boards must be installed to support the 128GB maximum. Memory Type: PC133 ECC (Registered.)

(12) Fibre Channel Disk Modules can be installed in the front hot-swap bays when an optional (6) bay expansion backplane is installed. The largest capacity drive recommended by SUN is 146GB 15K, however, depending on your version of Solaris, you can opt to install 300GB modules with the appropriate SUN firmware revision.