Motherboard
Asus P5BV-E/SAS, Intel 3200-based, server motherboard
CPU
Intel's quad-core Xeon Processor X3220, features energy-efficient, server level performance.
Areca RAID Controller
- Unparalleled performance (Intel high performance I/O processor).
- Unsurpassed data availability (Raid 0, 1, 1E , 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60 or JBOD).
- Maximum interoperability.
- Easy RAID management, McBios (Browser Style GUI, CLI).
Storage
SAS/SATA Hot-swappable Drive Bays
Software
- VMware ESXi 3.5, the next generation, OS-independent hypervisor that makes virtualization
easy to deploy.
- Unmatched security with a small 32MB, virtualization-centric architecture.
- Menu-driven start up experience and intelligent defaults enables booting the server
to running virtual machines in just minutes.
Small businesses are looking for cost-effective ways to grow their businesses. They
want to maximize their investment with the limited resources yet without sacrificing
the expandability of new technology. The virtual server enables instant addition
of resources for on-demand capacity. It can be applied to many usages such as mail
server, web server, storage server, just to name a few.