Affordable 99.999% Availability Fault-tolerance for Virtual Server Environments with NEC Express 5800/R320

1. The NEC Express5800 Simply Affordable 99.999% Availability Virtual Server Environments for Virtualization has changed enterprise computing, for good With increased performance at dramatic cost savings, virtualization has permanently changed enterprise computing. We’ve gained vertical scalability with resource pooling, HPC and cloud computing on a massive scale. But virtualization has not solved all server performance challenges. For many mission-critical workloads, guaranteed uptime from hardware-based fault tolerance is required. NEC fault tolerant (FT) servers take fve nines of availability to the next level with support for the leading server virtualization environments. Leveraging the Intel® Xeon® architecture, the NEC Express5800 FT servers bring true fault tolerance to virtualization while eliminating complex clusters and external shared storage. Even further, NEC provides hardware-based fault tolerance at 50% lower total cost of ownership1. NEC has eliminated the need to build complex clusters by engineering resiliency and redundancy into a chassis that offers 99.999% availability2. Just five and a quarter minutes of downtime per year Five nines, that is possibly just fve and a quarter minutes of downtime per year! NEC accomplishes this with CPU ‘lockstep’ technology that offers immediate failover and server virtualization protection. Resynchronization is transparent and automatic. And this extreme fault tolerance requires no additional software or confguration hassles. Leveraging the virtualization-ready architecture of Intel Xeon, the NEC Express5800 FT servers are optimized for virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere®, which is broadly adopted for scaling hosting environments at reduced cost, and Microsoft® Hyper-V™, which is popular for scaling mission-critical data center workloads.

2. Intel Xeon and NEC bring both extreme reliability and operational simplicity This tight integration of Intel Xeon architecture and NEC hardware systems design means enterprises can avoid complex clusters, costly SAN-based storage, and separate management consoles for hardware, software and storage. NEC Express5800 FT servers help enterprise IT conserve time with simplifed deployment and money with 50% reduction in lifecycle cost and no additional software licensing fees. And, the simplicity of zero-touch reliability frees IT staffs from cluster disasters. Supports the leading virtualization software environments including Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and VMware vSphere® Leverages Intel® Xeon® architecture to achieve continuous availability Built-in Fault Tolerance CPU Lockstep Brings operational simplicity; eliminates clusters and costly SAN-based storage It’s time to build high availability into your virtualized infrastructure Has your organization benefted from virtualization while maintaining high availability? How does your IT organization deal with the diminished productivity and application downtime from IT outages? It’s time to learn more about how NEC and Intel’s breakthrough solutions answer these questions. It’s time to learn about the NEC Express5800 FT servers with innovative CPU lockstep technology for superior fault-tolerance and price performance. It’s time for simply affordable 99.999% availability for virtual server environments. Learn more from the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab Validation Report on the NEC Express5800 FT servers Download Whitepaper 1. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) 2. Based on NEC Corporation Testing ©2015 NEC Corporation of America. All rights reserved. NEC and the NEC logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NEC Corporation that may be registered in Japan and other jurisdictions. Other product or service marks mentioned are the trademarks of their respective owners.