VMware-certified AdvancedTCA node board
ProductMarch 29, 2011
Alice Moss
Military Embedded Systems
Chris A. Ciufo
General Micro Systems, Inc.
AdvancedTCA is making inroads into moderate environment deployed military racks. The promise of exceptional horsepower and scads of I/O in a small 1U-sized space makes the interoperable PICMG 3.0 (AdvancedTCA, Option 9) standard quite appealing.
AdvancedTCA is making inroads into moderate environment deployed military racks. The promise of exceptional horsepower and scads of I/O in a small 1U-sized space makes the interoperable PICMG 3.0 (AdvancedTCA, Option 9) standard quite appealing. But the true promise of AdvancedTCA servers and processor nodes lies in their virtualization potential, as exemplified by Diversified Technology’s ATC6239. This AMD Opteron Socket F board is VMware compatible and certified for VMware’s ESX 4.1 and ESXi 4.1 for virtualization. This means the DoD user is assured that the industry’s most popular virtualization software’s gonna run on this baby – no questions asked.
Virtualization takes advantage of excess CPU and I/O resources and makes this AdvancedTCA board appear as multiple processing resources for applications including: LTE/4G wireless and other wireline networks, WiMAX, IMS applications, IPTV, radio network controlling, security and traffic handling, computational clustering, and video/audio transcoding and encoding. Four different kinds of Opterons are supported with a HyperTransport subsystem. Additionally, there’s up to 32 GB of ECC DDRII plus some onboard CompactFlash, and a Broadcom HT2100/HT1000 acts as traffic cop. I/O includes 1 GbE (front) and dual 1 GbE with dual 10 GbE (back), plus 2 USB, SAS/SATA (both to the AMC and RTM), plus video and three more USB to the RTM. And DTI has even tested this card with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Xen virtualization.
