Why Leeds server + storage work has its own profile
Leeds's DC cluster supports a mixed workload portfolio — Yorkshire finance, the largest legal cluster outside London, Sky Bet-class regulated tech, Channel 4 broadcast, NHS WY clinical, Yorkshire universities. One reference architecture doesn't cover all.
Low-latency storage for Yorkshire finance
Pure FlashArray //X and //XL with NVMe-oF for the low-latency profiles Yorkshire Building Society / First Direct / Lloyds Leeds need.
25 / 100 / 400 GbE fabric for Yorkshire DCs
Arista 7060X / 7050X, Cisco Nexus 9300 / 9500 — fabric design that handles east-west traffic at Leeds customer scale.
HCI for NHS WY + WYCA
Nutanix Cloud Platform and VMware vSAN ESA for NHS WY-affiliated trusts and WYCA + 4 WY authorities.
AI / GPU clusters for Yorkshire universities + Sky Bet
NVIDIA DGX B200 / GB200 NVL72, Supermicro HGX H100 / H200 for Leeds, Leeds Beckett, Bradford research + Sky Bet ML/fraud workloads.
What Servnet builds in Leeds
Server design + supply
PowerEdge R260-R960; ProLiant DL360-DL580 Gen11; ThinkSystem SR250-SR950.
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, vSAN ESA for VMware-loyal, Azure Stack HCI for Microsoft-centric.
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 ARK Leeds, Pulsant LBA, Stellium.
Lifecycle support + warranty consolidation
Multi-vendor warranty consolidated, EOSL / post-warranty cover when vendor TPS ends.
Leeds infrastructure customers
- ▸Yorkshire financeYorkshire Building Society, First Direct, Lloyds Leeds — Pure //X or Alletra MP X for trade store, Arista 7060X fabric.
- ▸Leeds legal clusterPinsents, Eversheds, DLA Leeds — Nutanix or vSAN for the virtualised estate, NetApp ONTAP for unstructured file.
- ▸NHS WY ICB + 5 trustsLTHT, BTHFT, CHFT, MYHT, Airedale — Nutanix or HPE SimpliVity HCI, DSP-Toolkit-aligned controls.
- ▸Sky Bet + Leeds techSky Bet (Flutter), Leeds Digital — Nutanix Cloud Platform, GPU servers for ML / fraud detection.
- ▸Channel 4 + broadcastChannel 4 national HQ — high-throughput SAN/NAS for production workflows, broadcast-systems infrastructure.
- ▸Yorkshire universitiesLeeds, Leeds Beckett, Bradford, Huddersfield — research compute clusters, GPU nodes, lab storage.
How a Leeds server / storage project actually runs
Design workshop + sizing week 1
Workload review with application owners — turned into sized design with like-for-like comparison.
Procurement → delivery → DC racking
PO raised, factory build lead time tracked, delivery direct into the Leeds DC. Engineer attends for rack-in.
Configuration + handover
Cluster config, storage provisioning, fabric configuration, integration with customer DNS / NTP / monitoring / backup.
Support contract activates day one
Servnet support live from go-live — 4-hour engineer + parts on Leeds SLA, smart-hands available.
Leeds servers + storage — common questions
Can you rack into ARK Leeds or Pulsant LBA?
Yes — standing access at ARK Leeds, Pulsant LBA, Stellium. Our engineers know the DC-specific protocols.
What do you spec for a Yorkshire finance storage refresh?
For most Yorkshire finance customers we land on Pure FlashArray //X — NVMe end-to-end, sub-100µs latency, NVMe-oF over 25G or 100G, immutable snapshots, replication to a second Yorkshire DC.
Do you do AI / GPU clusters for Yorkshire universities?
Yes — NVIDIA DGX B200 / B300 / GB200 NVL72 and Supermicro HGX H100 / H200 builds. Including 400G InfiniBand fabric.
Can you do a Nutanix design for an NHS WY trust?
Yes — Nutanix on AHV is a frequent design choice for NHS WY-affiliated trusts, particularly post-Broadcom.
Who supports the kit after install?
Servnet — under a Servnet support contract that runs alongside vendor warranty and replaces vendor TPS at end-of-life.
How do you price against Yorkshire integrators?
On hardware and licence typically 4–9% under list. On services we're faster, more technically specific.
Other services we deliver in Leeds
Sizing a Leeds server, storage or HCI project?
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