Stirling 267 - VMware ESXi 5.0 / Fault Tolerance Ready

vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous availability for applications in the event of server failures,  by creating a live shadow instance of a virtual machine that is in virtual lockstep with the primary instance. By allowing instantaneous failover between the two instances in the event of hardware failure, FT eliminates even the smallest chance of data loss or disruption. Maximize uptime in your datacenter and reduce downtime management costs by enabling vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) for your virtual machines. FT provides zero downtime, zero data loss, and continuous availability for your applications, without the cost and complexity of traditional hardware or software clustering solutions.

Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Designed for Windows Server 2003

The industry standards that designate technical compliance and quality-assurance with specific functions of Windows Server computing. The Stirling 267 allows administrators to integrate with confidence.

Higher I/O Connectivity

The custom configurable Stirling 267 rackmount server features dual IOH chipset configuration for higher I/O connectivity, up to 72 lanes for PCI Express 2.0. The Stirling 267 features an incredible seven PCI Express 2.0 slots, with one slot reserved for use by the RAID controller. This allows for up to six slots of add-on cards such as GbE or 10GbE network interface controllers and 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters for storage expansion.

Intelligent Platform Management Interface

For hardware-level platform monitoring and control functions, the IPMI protocol utilizes an out-of-band network to provide a flawless and secure path for mission-critical applications when regular in-band connectivity is lost or is unresponsive. Remote access for monitoring and administration allows the server administrators to view a server's hardware status remotely, receive an alarm automatically if a failure occurs, and power cycle a system that is non-responsive.

Total System Intel Virtualization Technology Support

Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT-x) offers investment protection and infrastructure flexibility with multigeneration VM migration across the full range of 32-bit and 64-bit configurations, enabling bigger VM pools.
Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (Intel VT-c) provides hardware-assisted I/O that accelerates network performance and simplifies VM migration. Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel VT-d) helps speed data movement and eliminates much of the performance overhead by giving designated VMs their own dedicated I/O devices, reducing the overhead of the VM migration in managing I/O traffic.

Virtual Machine Device Queues

Boosts network I/O to meet the demands of consolidated virtual workloads. Multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) introduce heavy traffic-management demands that servers must meet in order to ensure scalability and get the full value of virtualization. VMDq optimizes the processing of VM data traffic by routing them to the correct virtual machines at the chipset level and offloading the hypervisor to improve CPU utilization and bandwidth.

Intel I/O Acceleration Technology

Today's multi-port GbE and 10GbE network adapters deliver enormous data flows that require advanced server I/O subsystems to avoid performance bottlenecks. Intel I/OAT improves data flow across the platform to enhance system performance while reducing system overhead.

MANUFACTURER PART#	SRV267
ABERDEEN PART#	KIT267
PROCESSOR	Dual 1366-pin LGA Sockets Supports two Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series processors - Intel VT FlexMigration enables seamless migration of running applications among current and future Intel processor-based servers. - Intel VT FlexPriority improves virtualization performance by allowing guest OSs to read and change task priorities without VMM intervention. - Extended Page Tables (EPT) provide better performance by reducing the overhead caused by page-table utilization of virtual machines.
CHIPSET	Dual Intel® 5520 (Tylersberg) chipsets Intel® QuickPath Interconnect 6.4 or 4.8 GT/s QPI Intel ICH10R + 2IOH-36D Enables directly assignable I/O to Virtual Machines, helping speed data movement and enhancing performance.
SYSTEM MEMORY	Twelve 240-pin DIMM sockets (6 per CPU) Supports up to 192GB memory 1333 / 1066 / 800MHz DDR3 SDRAM Unbuffered ECC or Registered ECC w/ Parity Support Three channel of DDR3 memory Up to 32 GB/sec max memory bandwidth Registered memory necessary for higher capcity
ON BOARD I/O	PSU Connector: 24-pin ATX power connector + 8-pin ATX 12V power connector + USB Connectors: up to 8 ports Fan Header: 8 * 4pin Chassis Intruder: 1 Serial Port Header: 1
IPMI MANAGEMENT	Integrated IPMI2.0 Realtek RTL8201N PHY Dedicated LAN KVM-over-LAN and virtual media over LAN support
ON BOARD VIDEO	Matrox G200eW
ON BOARD LAN	Dual-GbE LAN: Intel® 82576 Gigabit LAN Intel® I/OAT 3 support for fast, scaleable, and reliable networking VMDq support for better performance of virtualization
SAS RAID	LSI SAS9261 8-Port LSISAS2108 ROC PCI Express 2.0 SAS 6.0Gb/s RAID Controller w/1xSFF-8088 for External SAS 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz) ASIC supports extreme performance RAID 6 function RAID level 0, 1 (0+1), 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and JBOD RAID Battery Backup Module(BBM) Included SCSI performance feature set
EXPANSION SLOTS	7 * PCI-E 2.0 x8 (x16 size slots) (1 x PCI-E slot populated with SAS controller)
BOARD SIZE	SSI EEB 3.61, 12"x 13"
EXPANSION BAYS	1 x 3.5" drive bay 1 x Slim 5.25" drive bay 8 x 3.5" x 1" drive bays 2 x 2.5" internal bracket
CHASSIS FEATURES	19" rackmount ATX (2U height, 28" Depth) 650W High Efficiency Redundant Power Supply (PS6591 for Spare Modules) Auto-switching 100/240V AC power Hot swap PWM cooling fans mounted on rubber screws LED indicators for power on, network activity, IDE HDD activity Power ON/OFF and system reset switches Chassis intrusion switch