Achieve New Levels of Efficiency and Density for Emerging Scale-out Workloads
The microserver represents a new server architecture characterized by many lightweight server nodes bundled together in a shared chassis infrastructure. They’re designed specifically for:
- Density
- Lower power per node
- Reduced costs
- Increased operational efficiency
Microservers are particularly well suited for lightweight scale-out of webscale applications such as:
- Simple Front End Web Tier
- Low End Dedicated Hosting
- Basic Content Delivery Node
Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v3 product family-based microservers offer improved performance per watt—up to 52%1 better performance per watt and up to 24%2 lower power than the previous generation at the node level. Data center-class capabilities, such as x86 compatibility, 64-bit architecture, ECC memory, virtualization support, integrated security, and scalability, will help you maximize node density, improve I/O performance, and minimize frustrations—all reasons why a microserver based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v3 product family is a simple and affordable solution for your data center.
Server System Infrastructure (SSI) Forum is a leading server industry group that drives server form factor standards, including the Micro Module Server Specification*. The Micro Module Server Specification provides a server board form factor and system interfaces specifically designed for the microserver segment. This standard will enable innovative system architectures to reduce product costs and increase product and data center efficiencies.
Microservers provide up to 5.8x greater performance per rack
A rack populated with microservers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v3 product family delivers up to 5.8 times2 greater performance compared to a rack populated with 1U servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v2 product family1.
Performance per rack3
*A server node includes processor, memory, and required discrete I/O controllers
Performance per rack3
