Hitachi Compute Blade 500

Ideal Platform for Virtualization and Cloud

Performance and Flexibility for Virtualized Workload

Overview

Blade Technology That Fits Your Application
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 combines the high-end features needed in today’s mission critical data center with the high compute density and adaptable architecture you need to lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis.

6U chassis houses up to 8 server blade modules
Integrated chassis management features simplify and accelerate installation and maintenance tasks
Enterprise class high availability features (hot-swap, redundant components, automated failover)
Latest Intel Xeon processors for state-of-the-art performance
Multiple blade options for workload flexibility
Large maximum memory configurations
Hardware based logical partition (LPAR) capability for robust, secure, high performance virtualization
IO flexibility via expansion blades, to add optional dedicated disk storage or I/O expansion capability
Choice of switched fabric options, including IP, FC and converged fabric.
Securely host multiple workloads in a single blade chassis

Solutions with Hitachi Compute Blade and Storage

Examine our Microsoft reference architecture: Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Reference Architecture on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
View our VMware reference architecture: VMware vCloud Director with Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Reference Architecture

Features and Benefits

Scalability

Scale out: to 8 x dual-socket blades
Scale up: 4-socket double-width blades supports 1.5TB
Blade performance: 1 to 4 CPUs, Intel Xeon E5 Family

Flexibility

Ethernet, Fiber Channel and CNA options
High bandwidth, configurable connectivity
Disk storage expansion blades

Efficiency

Embedded LPAR logical partitioning
Dynamic partitions in shared mode
Large physical memory capability

Availability

Automated blade failure detection and failover
Redundant and hot-swap power and cooling
Redundant I/O switch modules

Why Hitachi Compute Blade 500?

Safely mix a wide variety of application workloads on a highly reliable, scalable and flexible platform supported by a world class supplier of mission critical IT infrastructure.
Integrate with established network fabrics and management infrastructures.
Grow in-chassis to 8 2-socket blades or 4 4-socket blades (can be mixed) with a combined total addressable memory of over 4TB.
Achieve the right balance of throughput and connectivity with support for a mix of both integrated switched fabric and direct access to I/O slots provided by on-board PCIe 3.0 slots and I/O expansion blades.
Improve efficiency, performance and virtual server isolation with Hitachi logical partitions (LPAR)
Reduce dependency on proprietary UNIX server environments and switched only I/O fabrics with blade flexibility and converged I/O fabric support.
Add server management and system monitoring at no cost with Hitachi Compute Systems Manager (HCSM) which can seamlessly integrate with Hitachi Command Suite (HCS) in IT environments using Hitachi storage.

Resources

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Solution Profiles

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How to Buy

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