We mentioned that we were looking at the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 series 1U and 2U server systems.
We now have it on good authority that an external LSI based SAS connector is available in the Intel RAID Controller RS25GB008:
Not only that we have the nVidia Tesla C2070 series and the PNY nVidia Quadro 6000 series graphics processors showing as being compatible with this particular server system.
We would be utilizing a 2U configuration if we were going to run with RemoteFX capabilities for our client’s VDI needs though. These boards are quite large so won’t fit in t 1U chassis depending on the add-on components are installed on the server board.
Since these particular adapters show up on the R1208GZ series 1U we checked to see if the R2208GZ series 2U configuration has them:
They do indeed.
Now to see if we can gain access to either of the graphics products to run some tests on our own setups! They are quite expensive. :)
We are one step closer to Private Cloud and RemoteFX based VDI!
Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book
*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.
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