“The Cloud.” It’s hyped: We’ve talked about it. Everyone else is talking about it.

It’s also a mystery.

Not so much in the sense that we don’t know what it can do, but more in the sense that no one lets you see what it looks like. Is it literally an Ethernet cord thrown into a magical mass of visible water droplets?

To coincide with the launch of our new Server Cloud product line, we’re taking you behind the scenes to see the actual hardware on which your cloud server is hosted. Because we’ve invested such a significant amount of time, effort and capital into building our custom cloud offering on the KVM virtualization platform, we want to show off the infrastructure. If you’ve read our releases or any of the other blogs about our Server Cloud offering, you know what you’ll see: Intel Nehalem (or newer) processors running on Dell servers, attached to a high-availability SAN. Reading about those fancy pieces of technology and seeing them in action are two entirely different things, though.

Without further ado, let’s head into D6 Phase 3 to see The Planet Server Cloud infrastructure:

Meet “The Cloud.”

Server Cloud host servers with Intel Xeon 5520s

A glimpse into a host server cabinet

Host servers connect to the rest of the Server Cloud and to the Internet

Data is stored on a Sun Microsystems SAN

SAN storage ensures data reliability and speed

Sun SAN connectivity

Network devices from Cisco, Foundry and Juniper

Another Server Cloud data center row

As of today, you can get your piece of The Planet Server Cloud. If you’re still itching to see more, check out our Server Cloud Infrastructure Flickr set. If you’re not wholly convinced that grabbing a dedicated piece of this architecture for $49/month isn’t worth it, you may never be.

-Kevin