Infinity Sentinel Professional | Business Applications & Virtualization Host | EPYC 9124

When the accounting or practice-management database, an application server, Remote Desktop and the domain each live on a separate ageing server, every one is a single point of failure with its own power supply, warranty and backup job. Infinity Sentinel Professional moves those roles onto one rack host built for them: each application runs in its own virtual machine on enterprise flash, power comes from two hot-swap supplies, and the whole server is managed remotely through IPMI. It suits firms of roughly 25 to 75 staff with a comms closet or rack, such as accounting, legal and engineering firms and clinics with practice-management databases.

The 16-core, 32-thread AMD EPYC 9124 (up to 3.7 GHz) runs on the ASRock Rack GENOAD8UD-2T/X550 board inside the ASRock Rack 1U8S4E-GENOA/2T chassis, with 128GB of DDR5-4800 ECC registered memory filling all eight memory slots, one per channel (307.2 GB/s theoretical peak). The host boots from two mirrored Kingston DC2000B enterprise NVMe drives. Virtual machines and databases run on four Kingston DC600M 960GB enterprise SATA SSDs with power-loss protection in a ZFS RAID 10 pool (1.92TB usable), in front hot-swap bays connected straight to the motherboard with no RAID card, as Proxmox recommends for ZFS. The front panel holds eight 2.5-inch SATA bays and four NVMe bays, the Intel X550 provides two 10GbE ports, and a dedicated IPMI port handles remote management. Two 750W 80 PLUS Platinum power supplies run 1+1 redundant: either one can carry the server, and one can be removed while it runs. The chassis is 676.5 mm deep and comes with slide rails.

Proxmox VE 9 is the host operating system, with a one-year Proxmox VE Basic subscription. Windows Server, SQL Server and Remote Desktop run as guests and are licensed separately. Microsoft licenses all physical cores with a 16-core minimum per server, so this processor sits exactly at the minimum; Standard edition covers two Windows Server virtual machines per full licensing, and more need the cores licensed again or Datacenter edition. Windows Server CALs, RDS CALs and SQL Server are quoted. Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V on bare metal (on the board maker's OS list for this processor) and Ubuntu Server LTS are available on request.

Compared with Sentinel Essential, Professional moves to the SP5 server platform with eight-channel ECC registered memory and twice the base memory, a hot-swap SSD pool separate from the boot drives, redundant hot-swap power and a rack chassis. Choose Sentinel Advanced for 32 cores, all twelve memory channels, 384GB, 25GbE and room for a bulk-storage tier; Professional keeps Windows Server per-core licensing at the 16-core minimum, keeps every data drive in front hot-swap bays, and needs about 28 cm less rack depth than Advanced.

Every server has its BIOS and BMC firmware updated and completes a 72-hour burn-in with a written report, including a power-supply failover test with one supply pulled under load. It ships with Proxmox VE, the ZFS pools and VLAN-aware networking configured, the BMC on a separate management network and an as-built document, followed by a one-hour remote handover. Options include the 32-core EPYC 9354 in the same chassis, 256GB of memory (by quote), larger or eight-drive SSD pools (up to 3.84TB usable), a second dual-port 10GbE card, a 1500VA rack UPS, and on-site rack installation, Windows Server domain build, backup configuration and migration services.

1U server fans are loud, so plan for a rack room or ventilated closet; the fans are easy-swap rather than hot-swap; there are no 3.5-inch bays for bulk storage; and one host is not high availability, so back it up to separate hardware. Covered by our 3-Year Hardware Warranty and Lifetime Technical Support. Configured and quoted per project; built and tested in Ontario.