Servers, storage and HCI
for Edinburgh data centres and on-prem.
Servnet designs, supplies and deploys server, storage and HCI infrastructure for Edinburgh businesses — Dell PowerEdge R / XE, HPE ProLiant + Alletra MP, Lenovo ThinkSystem, Pure FlashArray, NetApp ONTAP, Nutanix Cloud Platform and Supermicro / NVIDIA GPU servers. Built for the Scottish DC cluster (Pulsant SCO1, iomart Edinburgh, Brightsolid, Synergy EDI), low-latency New Town finance workloads, and the AI / HPC requirements coming out of University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt.
Why Edinburgh server + storage work has its own profile
Edinburgh's DC cluster supports a uniquely Scottish workload portfolio — New Town finance, NHS Lothian + NHS Scotland clinical, Scottish Government, university research, Edinburgh tech. One reference architecture doesn't cover all of them.
Low-latency storage for New Town finance
Pure FlashArray //X and //XL with NVMe-oF over 25/100G fabric for the low-latency profiles New Town finance customers need — designed against actual workload.
25 / 100 / 400 GbE fabric for Scottish DCs
Arista 7060X / 7050X, Cisco Nexus 9300 / 9500, NVIDIA Spectrum for AI — fabric design that handles east-west traffic at Edinburgh customer scale.
HCI for NHS Scotland + Scottish councils
Nutanix Cloud Platform and VMware vSAN ESA for NHS Lothian + Scottish boards and Scottish councils — pre-validated, supported, with per-node refresh paths.
AI / GPU clusters for University of Edinburgh + EPCC
NVIDIA DGX B200 / GB200 NVL72, Supermicro HGX H100 / H200, Dell PowerEdge XE9680 / XE9640 for University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, EPCC research.
What Servnet builds in Edinburgh
Server design + supply
PowerEdge R260-R960; ProLiant DL360-DL580 Gen11; ThinkSystem SR250-SR950 — sized against workload.
Storage — Pure, NetApp, HPE Alletra, Dell PowerStore
All-flash block, scale-out NAS, hybrid file/object, NVMe-oF, ransomware-immutable snapshots.
HCI — Nutanix, vSAN ESA, Azure Stack HCI
Nutanix AOS on AHV or ESXi for regulated estates, vSAN ESA for VMware-loyal, Azure Stack HCI for Microsoft-centric Scottish Gov.
AI / GPU infrastructure
NVIDIA DGX B200 / B300 / GB200, Supermicro HGX H100 / H200 SXM5, Dell PowerEdge XE9680 / XE9640.
DC racking + cabling
Engineer attendance for racking at Pulsant SCO1, iomart Edinburgh, Brightsolid, Synergy EDI.
Lifecycle support + warranty consolidation
Multi-vendor warranty consolidated into one Servnet contract, EOSL / post-warranty cover when vendor TPS ends.
Edinburgh infrastructure customers
- ▸New Town financial servicesNatWest, Lloyds Scotland, Standard Life, Aegon, Baillie Gifford — Pure //X or Alletra MP X for trade store, Arista 7060X fabric.
- ▸NHS Lothian + NHS ScotlandNHS Lothian + 13 boards — Nutanix or HPE SimpliVity HCI, NHS Scotland-aligned controls, clinical workstation hardware, SWAN integration.
- ▸Edinburgh techFanDuel, Skyscanner-class production infrastructure — high-throughput compute + storage, cloud-bridge design.
- ▸Scottish universities + EPCCUniversity of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, EPCC — research compute clusters, GPU nodes, lab storage for genomics / climate science / engineering.
- ▸Scottish Government + ALBsScottish Gov + ALBs — Nutanix or vSAN for the gov estate, Scottish Procurement framework supply.
- ▸CEC + Lothian councilsCEC + Midlothian + East / West Lothian — HCI for the council estate, Scottish Procurement framework supply.
How an Edinburgh server / storage project actually runs
Design workshop + sizing week 1
Workload review with application owners — turned into sized design with like-for-like comparison across 2–3 vendors.
Procurement → delivery → DC racking
PO raised, factory build lead time tracked, delivery direct into the Edinburgh DC of choice. Engineer attends for rack-in, cabling, power-up.
Configuration + handover
Cluster config, storage provisioning, fabric configuration, integration with customer DNS / NTP / monitoring / backup.
Support contract activates day one
Servnet support live from production go-live — 4-hour engineer + parts on Edinburgh SLA, smart-hands available.
Edinburgh servers + storage — common questions
Can you rack into Pulsant SCO1 or iomart Edinburgh?
Yes — standing access at Pulsant SCO1 (South Gyle), iomart Edinburgh, Brightsolid, Synergy EDI. Our engineers know the DC-specific protocols.
What do you spec for a New Town trading floor storage refresh?
For most Edinburgh finance customers we land on Pure FlashArray //X — NVMe end-to-end, sub-100µs latency, NVMe-oF over 100G or 25G, ransomware-immutable snapshots, replication to a second Scottish DC for active/active.
Do you do AI / GPU clusters for University of Edinburgh research?
Yes — NVIDIA DGX B200 / B300 / GB200 NVL72 and Supermicro HGX H100 / H200 builds. Including 400G InfiniBand fabric and the power + cooling sanity check.
Can you do a Nutanix design for an NHS Scotland board?
Yes — Nutanix on AHV is a frequent design choice for NHS Lothian + broader NHS Scotland boards. Size cluster against workload, design replication / DR, document against NHS Scotland Information Security Policy.
Who supports the kit after install?
Servnet — under a Servnet support contract that runs alongside vendor warranty for in-warranty cover and replaces vendor TPS at end-of-life.
How do you price against Scottish integrators?
On hardware and licence typically 4–9% under list. On services we're faster, more technically specific. Trade-off is brand recognition on £1m+ multi-year managed deals.
Other services we deliver in Edinburgh
Sizing an Edinburgh server, storage or HCI project?
Tell us the workload, the DC and the timeline. We'll come back with a sized design and a like-for-like comparison.