Since Sun Microsystems has Solaris Containers and LDoms in Solaris, the company is making a renewed push to becoming one of the next major players in the virtualization market.  To that end, the company has recently announced its first line of servers that utilize its new UltraSPARC T2 processor - Niagara 2.  InternetNews recently did an article on the subject.  Here is what they found out:

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers will be the first rack mount systems to use the T2 processor, which features eight cores and supports eight threads per core. And the 5120 is a 1U unit with 64GB of memory, a single processor and room for four hot-pluggable disk drives.

The 5220 is a 2U unit with a single processor, 64GB of memory and room for eight hot-pluggable drives. Both machines can run either a 1.2GHz or 1.4GHz processor. They are designed to run the Solaris operating system and feature Sun's Solaris Containers and Logical Domains (LDoms) for enabling virtualization.

The Sun Blade T6320 module is a single wide blade design that fits into an existing Sun blade chassis, so it can be mixed and matched with x86 blades running Solaris, Windows or Linux. It runs the 1.2GHz and 1.4GHz processors, supports 64GB of memory and four drives.

"Today's product announcements will double up the performance of our existing product line," Warren Mootrey, senior director of volume SPARC systems at Sun, told InternetNews.com.

Read the rest of the article, here.