VMware vSphere 5.0 for ESXi* 5.0 - Intel® Server Board S3420GP

VMware vSphere* 5 delivers nearly 200 new and enhanced capabilities, provides efficiency from existing investments, an efficient and automated cloud infrastructure, and improves operational agility. VMware vSphere 5 supports virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions - VMs can now be configured with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs. With enhanced High Availability, these gains in VM scalability and performance enable customers to virtualize any business-critical applications with confidence. VMware vSphere 5 also introduces three key new flagship features – Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS –delivering intelligent policy management to support an automated "set it and forget it" approach to managing datacenter resources, including server deployment and storage management.

The Intel® Server Board S3420GP is an entry server board with essential server-class features. Growing businesses need a reliable server solution for web servers, file and print servers, e-mail servers, storage servers and vertical-specific business applications. A general-purpose entry server platform plays a fundamental role in the success of a workgroup, department, small- to medium- sized business or high performance computing (HPC). The Intel® Server Board S3420GP provides server-class performance without sacrificing cost-effectiveness or reliability.