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Home > Virtualization
- Unless you have prior experience building a virtualized environment, we strongly recommend that you contact us.
- Server configuration options for virtualized environments vary widely.
- Selecting compatible components (disk drives and storage controllers, for example) is one consideration.
- Matching the hardware's performance characteristics to your virtualization purposes is another.
- The Experts at Silicon Mechanics look forward to collaborating with you to ensure that your virtualization solution is configured to meet your needs and expectations.
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Silicon Mechanics Server Systems for Virtualization
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The products listed here are the server platforms that are most frequently selected for deployments in a virtualized environment. Depending on the specific goals for your virtualization project, others may also be well-suited to this purpose. We offer a high degree of flexibility in our hardware configurator, and will be happy to work with you to ensure that the hardware platform and configuration options you select will be those most appropriate to meet your needs and expectations.
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| Intel® Xeon®-Based Products
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Rackform iServ R331.v2.
1U dual-socket Intel Xeon 5600-based server with 12 DDR3 DIMM sockets, 4 hot-swap SAS / SATA drive bays, and redundant power.
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Rackform iServ R335.v2.
1U dual-socket Intel Xeon 5600-based server with 12 DDR3 DIMM sockets, 8 hot-swap SAS / SATA 2.5" drive bays, and redundant power.
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Rackform iServ R346.v2.1.
2U dual-socket Intel Xeon 5600-based server with 12 DDR3 DIMM sockets, 8 hot-swap SAS / SATA drive bays, and redundant power.
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Rackform iServ R4410.v2.
2U with 4 dual-socket Intel Xeon 5600-based nodes, 4 x 12 DDR3 DIMM sockets, 4 x 3 hot-swap SATA drive bays, and redundant power.
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| AMD Opteron™-Based Products
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Rackform nServ A331.
1U dual-socket AMD Opteron 6100-based server with 16 DDR3 DIMM sockets, 4 hot-swap SAS / SATA drive bays, and redundant power.
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Rackform nServ A335.
1U dual-socket AMD Opteron 6100-based server with 16 DDR3 DIMM sockets, 8 hot-swap SAS / SATA 2.5" drive bays, and redundant power.
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Rackform nServ A346.
2U dual-socket AMD Opteron 6100 Series-based server with 16 DDR3 DIMM sockets, 8 hot-swap SAS / SATA drive bays, and redundant power.
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Rackform nServ A4410.
2U with 4 dual-socket AMD Opteron 6100-based nodes, 4 x 16 DDR3 DIMM sockets, 4 x 3 hot-swap SATA drive bays, and redundant power.
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What is Virtualization?
Virtualization is a method of running multiple independent systems on a single physical computer. It is not a new idea: mainframes and microcomputers have been running virtual environments for decades. With increasing data center costs, rising consciousness of the need to improve efficiency and compute density, and an expanding awareness of sustainability in the IT setting, virtualization has come of age in the volume server space. Using virtualization software and technology, the hardware resources of an x86-based server — including the CPU, RAM, hard disk, and network controller — can be partitioned into fully functional virtual machines that can run their own operating systems and applications.
Economic and environmental concerns fueled the development of workable virtualization software and technologies, and a host of add-ons that improve management capability have made virtualization a necessary consideration when seeking to optimize efficiency in IT and data center infrastructure. In addition to energy savings and lower capital expenses due to more efficient use of hardware resources, you can achieve high availability of resources, increased security, and improved disaster recovery processes when you integrate virtualization into your infrastructure.
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