Description
Enterprise servers consist of the platform hardware and the operating system that together support the operating environment to support application and database servers that serve the entire NIH organization. They typically serve hundreds, if not thousands, of concurrent users and utilize high availability and redundant configurations to minimize downtime.
Mid-range servers consist of the platform hardware and operating system that together support the operating environment for applications and databases that serve a smaller group of users.Because the distinctions between enterprise and mid-range servers depend on subjective estimates of workload magnitude, this brick addresses both enterprise and mid-range servers. These standards are meant to provide guidance when selecting a server for a new application or when upgrading the server environment for an existing application. It cannot replace the capacity planning and operational support analysis needed to ensure the new server environment (including storage subsystems and peripherals) that is not addressed here is capable of meeting the size, maintainability, performance, and availability requirements of the business. This brick provides baseline information and the future direction for deploying enterprise and mid-range servers at NIH in terms of the preferred hardware platform.
Brick Information
Tactical
(0-2 years)
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Strategic
(2-5 years)
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General Purpose
- AMD Athlon
- AMD Opteron
- Apple Macintosh, including G4, PowerPC and Xserve G5
- IBM eServer zSeries
- IBM POWER
- Intel Itanium 2
- Intel Xeon
- Sun SPARC
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General Purpose
- AMD Athlon
- AMD Opteron
- IBM eServer zSeries
- IBM POWER
- Intel Itanium 2
- Intel Xeon
- Sun SPARC
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Retirement
(To be eliminated)
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Containment
(No new development)
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General Purpose
- HP Alpha
- HP PA-RISC
- Pentium Proprietary Appliance Servers
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Baseline
(Today)
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Emerging
(To track)
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General Purpose
- AMD Athlon
- Apple Macintosh, including G4, PowerPC and Xserve G5
- Hewlett Packard Alpha
- Hewlett Packard PA-RISC
- IBM POWER
- IBM eServer zSeries
- Intel Itanium 2
- Pentium
- Proprietary Appliance Servers
- Sun SPARC
Scientific
- Apple Macintosh, including G4, PowerPC and Xserve G5
- SGI MIPS Technologies
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Comments
Time Table
This architecture definition approved on:
March 9, 2005
The next review is scheduled in:
TBD