The ES7000 is Unisys's x86/Windows, Linux and Solaris-based server product line. 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, large databases (SQL Server and Oracle), Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, ERP, virtualization, as well as large Linux application hosting.
The hardware and software elements of the server are monitored by a software suite known as Server Sentinel.
Elements of the ES7000 architecture includes
Multiple power domainsN+1 redundancy for most componentsSubpod CPU scaling (4 cpu increment)Centralized memory/cache controlShared cachePoint to point crossbar connections (fleXbar) among memory, processors, and I/O componentsMultiple I/O PCI bridges and busesUp to 8 direct I/O bridges each providing 3 independent PCI buses, supporting 96 PCI slots (On 100 and 200 series)Multiple memory storage units that can be combined or used separatelyThis server family has undergone several model revisions in its lifetime since 1999. Initially, the servers were standalone—physically the configuration resembled a rack 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 standard 19" racks.
ES7000/100 Series - (1999/2000) Support for 32 Xeon processors, 64 GB RAM, 96 PCI slots under Microsoft Windows NT EE and Windows 2000 DCES7000/200 Series - Support for up to 32 Xeon Processors, 64 GB RAM, 96 PCI slots under Microsoft Windows NT EE and Windows 2000 DCES7000/230 Series - Support for up to 32 Xeon Processors, 64 GB RAM, 96 PCI slots under Windows 2000 DC and Windows 2003 DCES7000/130 Series - Support for up to 32 Itanium processorsES7000/500 Series (510/420/530/540)ES7000/550 Series - Support for up to 32 Xeon processors, 64 GB RAM, 96 PCI Slots under Windows 2000 DC and Windows 2003 DCES7000/400 Series (405/410/420/430/440) - Support for up to 32 Itanium processors and 128GB RAM under Windows 2000 DC and Windows 2003 DCES7000/600 Series - Support for up to 32 Dual Core Xeon or Itanium processors, 256 GB RAM, 40 PCI Slots under Windows 2003 DCES7000/One Series - Support for up to 32 Dual Core Xeon or Itanium 2 processors, 256 GB RAM, 40 PCI Slots under Windows 2003 DCFrom late 2008, ES7000 7600R ("Kona") scalable from 1 cell of 24 cores to 4 cells of 96 cores of Xeon Hexcore and 1T of memoryHexcore 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 spaceBuilt 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)Number 1 TPC-E benchmarkThe ES7000 models are broken down into three form factors.
Cabinet/Frame size (A monolithic, midplane architecture, but deeper than a conventional rack)4U Size Cell with up to 8 processors per cell and 8 PCI slots, up to four cells can be bound together to create a 32 cpu system)3U Size Cell with up to 4 processor sockets per cell and 5 PCI slots, up to eight cells can be strapped together to create a 32 socket system)The processors used in the ES7000 are:
Intel XeonIntel Multicore XeonIntel Itanium and Itanium 2AMD OpteronES7000 servers support the Microsoft Windows operating system both 32-bit Xeon and 64-bit Itanium, 32-bit and 64-bit versions of some Linux operating systems, and the Solaris Operating System.
Windows: 2003 and Windows 2008Linux: Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise LinuxVMware: ESX 3.02 and ESX 3.5Unisys OS2200Unisys MCPSolaris
