Demartek announces the addition of the first of a series of Intel® Xeon 5500 ("Nehalem") servers to its test lab. This server includes seven (7) PCI Express® 2.0 expansion slots and will be used to test SSD, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, 10GbE, Infiniband, 6-Gbit SAS and other advanced technologies requiring advanced processor and I/O capabilities.
This server contains two Intel Xeon 5500 series quad-core processors and 48 GB of memory, making it suitable for virtual server testing and testing of real-world applications.
This server also supports twenty-four (24) 2.5-inch disk drives in the 2 rack-unit (2U) system chassis, suitable for testing spinning disk drives and solid state storage devices.
This new server complements Demartek’s existing Ethernet networking, Fibre Channel and iSCSI infrastructure. Other recent additions are listed on the Demartek lab validation testing page.