there were two configs ( all used same processor, hpe did make others with more beefy processors but unsure if they rver
standered
2x2tb Disk
1x 256gb ssd
32gb ram
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2x4tb disk
1x 516gb ssd
64gb ram
you could also purchase the extension and the extra ports and a fancy stand ( think I still have those at home I’ll have to look )
there was a wall mount so you could mount it on the wall and use it as a
WiFi router plus sever, Thee things ( if they ever worked properly ) would have been killer
how ever the Zynstra solution was unique and is still going to this day so I can’t provide you with a image due to a whole lotta laws, it currently runs A whole lotta of other large scale company’s as it is a essentially a self “ healing “ self “ building “ hyper visor. As in it gives you a web page and you can put it the details such as how many windows VMs, Linux VM domain name dns dhcp settings as it automatically builds the VMs for you. This is what makes it popular in retail, all they have to do is ship a box, it builds a load of VMs etc for you and done
HPE thought this would be a gold mine, how ever they failed to count on the fact that people actually want to control there own hypervisor and stuff, Zynstra does not let people into it, you had to pay for there service pack. Which is where the trouble came from
The target customers were mostly SMB’s from schools to small GP clients ( UK ), they also sold larger HPE rack mounted but only to larger clients. These things were not cheap and started at around £120 a month, new they were around £1300 to buy so it made sense to a lot of small company’s to buy there servers and there support at the same time.
the reason you had to reserve 8GB away for the hypervisor was bescuse there were a lot more VMs running
with this solution you also got a firewall and a router ( hence the WAN and LAN port )
the retail is a new thing and they have moved away from ec200as due to there crapness with over heating and reliability. How ever the software is still the same.
We used to have hundreds of these things in the server room as test build boxes purely beacuse we had so many that HPE gave us as they couldn’t sell them
The buy out was purely for the software as they were the first to get to the punch of a “ self building server “ that was commercially viable, people were trying to buy them out for years, and when a deal was made it was for more then 5x the company’s worth just due to the other bids coming in.
VMware has something similar if you want to try but they gave up after NcR backed Zynstra and they took off