TheES7000 isUnisys'sx86/Windows,Linux andSolaris-based server product line.[1] The "ES7000" brand has been used since 1999, although variants and models within the family support various processor and bus architectures. The server is marketed and positioned as a scale-up platform where scale-out becomes inefficient. Typically the ES7000 is utilized as a platform for homogeneous consolidation, largedatabases (SQL Server andOracle),Business intelligence,Decision Support Systems,ERP,virtualization, as well as largeLinux applicationhosting.
The hardware and software elements of the server are monitored by a software suite known asServer Sentinel.[2]
This server family has undergone several model revisions in its lifetime since 1999. Initially, the servers were standalone—physically the configuration resembled arack and took up a somewhat larger footprint than a rack (Models 100, 130, 200, 230, 550, 400). Second and third generation ES7000s were rack mountable cells 4U or 3U high that fit in standard19" racks.
From late 2008, ES7000 7600R ("Kona") scalable from 1 cell of 24 cores to 4 cells of 96 cores of Xeon Hexcore and 1T of memory[4]
Hexcore and high IO throughput crossbar make Kona twice the performance of previous top-of-the-line ES7000/one on half the cells, at a fraction of the price and 1/3 less rack space
Built for green, scale-up database, scale-up virtualization (HyperV, VMware) and application consolidation workloads gaining performance and cost savings relative to many smaller, scale-out boxes (administration/maintenance, floorspace, heating, cooling)
