Sanbolic Melio* and Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2: Scalable Storage for Windows* File-Serving - Intel® Server Board S1400FP

A Sanbolic Melio* and Microsoft Windows* File-Serving deployment offers organizations the flexibility to incorporate file-serving via CIFS or NFS with iSCSI for applications requiring access to block-based storage. In addition, servers can use their internal disk drives or can connect to external storage arrays to enable future growth and/or seamless integration into an existing SAN infrastructure. Melio FS* is a 64-bit symmetrical cluster file system that allows multiple Windows Server 2008 R2 servers to be clustered into a common file system on external SAN storage. With this configuration, all servers share concurrent read-and-write access to the shared storage provided by the Melio FS cluster file system, allowing a file call to be processed by any server in the cluster.

The Intel® Server Board S1400FP is a low cost, entry-level single socket server board that is ideal as an entry level server for small businesses or for storage deployments where minimizing cost is imperative. Supporting the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family, the Intel® Server Board S1400FP delivers real server benefits including five PCIe* Slots for I/O expandability, 14 onboard SATA ports for storage flexibility, entry level server connectivity and management via the integrated BMC, in addition to six registered/unbuffered memory slots.