The AR160 F1 is a dual-socket server that delivers great performance and enterprise-level scalability in a space-saving design. With enhanced management solutions, this rack-optimized server effectively handles backbone, data center, e-commerce and clustering operations.

Acer’s AR180 F1 dual-socket rack server delivers solid performance, scale-up flexibility and optimized storage capacity in a 2U modular form factor. Comprehensive management utilities and high-efficiency components make this rack server a great, cost-effective solution for clustering operations and growing businesses.

The AR320 single-socket server delivers great performance and enterprise-level scalability in a space-saving design. Proactive management utilities effectively handle SMB as well as enterprise business operations, including those of departments and branch offices.

The AR360 F1 dual-socket server delivers excellent performance, availability and expansion capability in a space-saving design. With advanced management and reliability features, this 1U rack server is optimized for enterprise-level operations, including those of departments and branch offices.

The AR380 F1 is a high-performance, dual-socket server delivering excellent availability, expansion capability, and flexibility in a space-saving design. This 2U modular rack server is optimized for mid-sized businesses as well as enterprise business operations, including those of departments and branch offices.

The AR385 F1 is a high-performance dual-socket rackmount server with great expandability and huge storage and memory in a space-saving package. This energy-efficient, 2U modular server features multicore processing power, excellent virtualization capability, and comprehensive management for mid-sized businesses as well as enterprise-level deployments.

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The power-efficient AR585 F1 quad-socket rack-optimized server delivers superior performance, availability and expandability in a space-saving design. This 2U modular rack server features multicore processing power, excellent consolidation and virtualization capabilities, and comprehensive management for optimized enterprise-level computing.

The Acer AW2000h AW170hq F1 provides first-class performance, innovative technology, high configurability, and comprehensive management features. The 2U rack-mountable form factor saves space. It also optimizes thermal control, maximizes computing power and ensures future-proof scale-out possibilities with four independent nodes and up to 8 Intel® Xeon® processors.

Nodes*

• Up to 4 AW170h F1 nodes with standard low-profile PCIe® 2.0 slot
• Up to 4 AW170hd F1 nodes with standard low-profile PCIe® 2.0 slot and DDR InfiniBand™ module
• Up to four AW170hq F1 nodes with standard low-profile PCIe® 2.0 and QDR InfiniBand™ module

* Any of the node options can be used together.

The Acer AW2000h AW175hq F1 maximizes component efficiency with up to 4 independent hot-pluggable server nodes sharing the same power supplies and thermal controls. The 2U rack-mountable form factor delivers space savings and high configurability with the latest AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform, Gold-level environment-friendly power, and comprehensive management features to serve current and growing business needs cost effectively.

Nodes*

• Up to 4 AW175h F1 nodes with standard low-profile PCIe® 2.0 slot
• Up to 4 AW175hq F1 nodes with standard low-profile PCIe® 2.0 and QDR InfiniBand™ module

* Any of the node options can be used together.

The Acer AW2000ht AW170htq F1 offers flexible configurations, working with up to 2 server nodes and 2 discrete graphics cards to deliver supercomputing power performance. Equipped with industry-standard technologies, this 2U rack-optimized server is cost effective—lowering TCO not only for its prolific and high-reliability performance, but also for significant energy savings thanks to its power-saving and cooling efficiencies.

Nodes

• Up to 2 AW170ht F1 nodes with standard PCIe® 2.0 slot, and optional GPU support¹
• Up to 2 AW170htq F1 nodes with standard PCIe® 2.0, QDR InfiniBand™, and optional GPU support¹

¹ An x16 riser, graphic card bracket, and power cable are required when installing a GPU card.

The Acer AW3000 – AW370 F1 Server built on Intel® Multi-Flex Technology integrates storage, computing, and networking to simplify complex IT environments. The Acer AW3000 is a business-in-a-box server system with seamless installation, migration, and growth capabilities. It has the ability to support up to six Acer AW370 F1 Compute Modules, up to fourteen 2.5” SAS/SATA/SSD drives, as well as two Ethernet Switch Modules, integrated SAN, and a management Module makes AW3000 a flexible and powerful solution for the small to midsize business.

The Acer AB2x280 F1 dual-node server blade meets the growing demands of expanding large-enterprise data centers, cluster computing applications, and heavy or diverse workloads.

The Acer AB460 F1 server blade meets the growing demands of expanding large-enterprise data centers, cluster computing applications, and heavy or diverse workloads.

The AB7000 blade enclosure effectively works with Acer server blades. Up to 10 server blades with QDR InfiniBand™ share the same power source, management module, thermal solution and switch module in data center and high-performance computing environments.

The Acer AC100 delivers essential server-class features and expandability along with unique Acer utilities¹ and Microsoft^® Small Business Server 2011 Essentials¹ to ensure the success of startup and small-size businesses. The ultra-micro tower server is ENERGY STAR^® certified and features an 80 PLUS^® efficient power supply that saves space and energy while keeping your employees and office highly productive.

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Acer offers powerful DDR3 memory with full compatibility and ample bandwidth for Acer servers supporting virtualization applications, database management, transaction processing and more. DDR3 memory delivers high server performance with less power consumption, even for applications requiring large amounts of memory. Acer offers registered DDR3 DIMMs with error correction for reliability and performance, plus unbuffered DIMMs for a balanced price-to-performance ratio.

DDR3 Key Benefits:
• DDR3 can save up to 30% more power than DDR2
• DDR3 memory has twice the bandwidth of DDR2
• DDR3 (1333 MHz) is faster than DDR2 (800 MHz)
• Dual-/quad-rank DIMMs boost performance with Intel® Xeon® 5500/5600 and AMD Opteron™ 4000/6000 Series Processors

As a key element in our lineup of enterprise-level server options, Acer offers both single-port and dual-port Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (FC HBAs). Both the single-port QLE2560 and dual-port QLE2562 FC HBAs offer next-generation 8GB Fibre Channel technology to meet the business requirements of enterprise data centers.

Acer HBA Key Features:

• • Fibre Channel 8GB to PCI Express® x8
• • 1600/3200 Mbps (full duplex)
• • 200,000 initiator and target IOPS per port
• • StarPower™ technology

Acer Hard Disk Drives deliver top reliability, flexibility, performance and technologies to enterprise customers. Offering both 2.5" and 3.5" form factors in three drive types—SATA, SAS and SSD—Acer servers with certified HDDs will protect your information assets.

Acer’s Current HDD Offerings:

• Enterprise 2.5" SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives are 70% smaller than 3.5" drives and consume 50% less power than traditional 3.5" drives, yet they offer twice the bandwidth with incredibly high reliability standards. These drives are perfect for high-performance enterprise servers and storage arrays running transaction-intensive OLTP and database applications.


• Enterprise 2.5" and 3.5" SATA (Serial ATA) drives are also called nearline drives. They offer the highest capacities in the industry and are built for enterprise-class nearline applications. Good for business-critical enterprise applications, this line has the best price-to-performance ratio among all enterprise storage solutions. Featuring a high-reliability (1.2 million hours MTBF) and multispindle design, these storage drives are perfect for use in data-hungry applications needing better-than-average data security.


• 3.5" SATA II (Serial ATA) drives (7,200rpm) offer the most gigabytes per dollar, use less power and provide a greater maximum capacity compared to enterprise SAS/SATA drives. These drives are ideal for large data centers, web service providers, and businesses requiring huge amounts of storage with limited budget and power allotment.


• Enterprise 3.5" SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives deliver availability and reliability via read speeds of up to 15,000rpm and seek times as low as 3.5ms. These drives reduce storage costs per gigabyte and increase capacity per watt, and they are the best choice for capacity-intensive tier 1 storage solutions.


• SSD (Solid State Drives) deliver higher input/output per second and throughput performance than other HDDs on the market today. Running applications 7x24x365 in nonstop environments, Acer SSDs come in a small-profile design with minimal cooling requirements and lower power consumption. Featuring low-write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, Acer SSD drives not only perform better but also last longer than other SSDs on the market today.

All Acer drives are carefully tested and validated on Acer servers. Using Acer-qualified drives will ensure a longer server lifecycle and higher data availability.

A network fabric interconnect based on InfiniBand™ technology, our host channel adapters provide a computer with port connections to other InfiniBand™ devices (another HCA, a target device or an InfiniBand™ switched fabric). Used in HPC and enterprise data centers, InfiniBand’ provides high throughput, low latency, QoS and failover.

Feature highlights

• • Single/dual 40Gb/s InfiniBand™ port, or 10Gb/s Ethernet port
• • CPU offload of transport operations
• • End-to-end QoS and congestion control
• • Hardware-based I/O virtualization
• • TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
• • Full support for Intel® I/OAT

Acer offers a wide range of Intel® Ethernet network adapters for top-of-the-line responsiveness. These high-performing network cards offer bandwidth from 10/100Mbps to 10Gbps with both copper and Fibre Channel connectivity. With Base-T to SFP+, Acer’s LAN card options allow users to connect to networks over a wide range of distances, from 1 meter to 10 kilometers, and are available in single-, dual- and quad-port configurations.

Acer LAN Adapter Values and Benefits:

Reliable Performance
• Broad OS support
• Designed for multicore processors
• Low-latency Ethernet

Best Choice for Virtualization
• Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity¹
• Leader in virtual system scalability
• Broad VM support (VMWare ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen)

Unified Networking
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet
• iSCSI with trusted, native OS support
• Support for data center bridging with lossless Ethernet

Acer, together with Microsoft®, delivers enterprise-level server software solutions boasting outstanding quality and reliability to those who demand smooth fulfillment and deployment processes. Acer’s combined efforts with Microsoft® engineering teams, plus rigorous validation process and high compatibility standards, ensure interoperability and superb performance of the products. Acer and Microsoft® are going the extra mile to bring you the best of server system and software solutions.

The Reseller Option Kit (ROK)¹ is a software distribution option that offers tuned and certified Microsoft® server software separately from Acer servers. Each ROK is another server option, like memory or hard drives. It is a cost-effective, install-ready kit for easy deployment of Microsoft® Server operating systems on Acer servers.

Benefits to End Customers:
• A quick fulfillment process in place to secure prompt delivery with software right in the Acer server (one call, one order, one shipment)
• Convenient as a one-stop shop for both resellers and end-customers getting both hardware and software all in one place
• A better overall user experience with ready-to-use servers that are quick and reduce support needs
• Cost-effective procurement with single-window purchase and ready-to-install capability, translating to reduced procurement costs while saving time


What’s in the ROK with Acer Server:
• Distribution Agreement
• Documentation
• Seal Label (outlining returns, warranty terms, etc.)
• Microsoft® Windows OS CD
• COA Label

Giving you the versatility you need, Acer optical disc drives are designed to support the latest CD±R/RW, DVD±R/RW, and various DVD-RAM formats. Offered in both slim and half-height form factors, Acer ODDs fit perfectly into today’s 5.25" optical drive slots in tower servers and 1U/2U rack servers.

Each Acer power supply unit (PSU) complies with industry-recognized compliance standards, including the Climate Savers® Computing Initiative and 80 Plus®. This ensures high reliability and improved power delivery whether the server is installed in a branch office or a large data center.

Key Benefits:

• • High power efficiency—80 Plus® certified; some PSUs are certified at Platinum level (94%)
• • Redundant, toolless and hot-pluggable design
• • Solid mechanical design ensuring smooth airflow and low system temperature

Acer offers top-brand energy-efficient processors with superior performance for its servers. Featuring top names such as Intel® Xeon® and AMD Opteron™ processors, our server lineup provides optimum reliability and scalability and fit a wide range of Acer server customers who demand the best performance.

Key Processor Benefits:

• • Up to 6 or 12 processing cores and larger L2/L3 cache memory available
• • Features low-watt, high-frequency processors for energy-efficient, high-speed transfers
• • Supports I/O level virtualization to improve I/O performance
• • Built on newer 32/45nm processor technology for advanced performance

Acer's toolless¹ sliding rack rails and cable management arms² (CMA) are made with sturdy materials by tier-one rack accessory leaders and are designed to be ultra stable, smooth gliding and silent. Opening and closing with just a soft push or pull, the rails make light work of accessing server racks, and therefore last a very long time. The enhanced design provides a complete rack solution for enterprise-level environments in need of quick, easy access for server installation and servicing.

A key element in our quest to provide the best of server systems and server options together is our RAID lineup. Acer’s add-on RAID card options offer premium functions and technologies for I/O performance that go far beyond creating RAID data storage.