Intel® ESAA Solution Guide: VMware vCloud Director* 1.5 for vSphere ESXi* 5.0 - Intel® Server Board S2600CO

This Intel® ESAA Cloud Solution Guide expands on the Intel® Cloud Builders VMware vCloud Director* 1.5 Reference Architecture, including hardware and software requirements. VMware vCloud Director enables customers to build secure, multitenant hybrid clouds by pooling infrastructure resources into virtual datacenters, and enables those resources to be consumed by users on-demand. vCloud Director pools datacenter resources, including compute, storage and network, along with their relevant policies into virtual data centers. Fully encapsulated multitier virtual machine services are delivered as vApps, using the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). End users and their associated policies are captured in organizations. With programmatic and policy-based pooling of infrastructure, users and services, VMware vCloud Director enforces policy intelligently and creates unprecedented flexibility and portability. By building secure and cost-effective hybrid clouds with vSphere and VMware vCloud Director, IT organizations can become true service providers for the businesses they support, driving agility and efficiency with confidence and control.

Intel® Server Board S2600CO is the perfect server building block with the performance, storage capacity, and I/O flexibility required by most for small- and medium-size businesses (SMB) and embedded applications. It is an ideal server solution for embedded storage systems and SMB’s seeking advanced server features and a long life cycle and supports dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processors with Intel® TXT Technology for demanding compute environments. Cost-conscious feature set with expandable options, supporting 6 GB SAS, hot swap, and several RAID options. Strong, performance-based features such as dual socket support, mainstream 16 DIMM support, and an enterprise LAN solution. From virtualization and cloud computing to design automation or real-time financial transactions, you’ll be delighted by better than ever performance. I/O latency is dramatically reduced with Intel® Integrated I/O, which helps you to eliminate data bottlenecks, streamline your operations, and increase your agility.