BladeSymphony 1000 (Figure 1) is the first blade system designed specifically for enterprise-class, mission-critical workloads. It is a 10 rack unit (RU) system that combines Hitachi’s Virtage embedded virtualization technology, a choice of Intel Dual-Socket, Multi-Core Xeon and/or Intel Dual-Core Itanium Server Blades (running Windows or Linux), centralized management capabilities, high-performance I/O, and sophisticated reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features.
Figure 1. BladeSymphony 1000 front view
Enterprise-Class Capabilities
With BladeSymphony 1000, it is now possible for organizations to run mission-critical applications and consolidate systems and workloads with confidence — at the edge, the application tier, the database tier, or all three. BladeSymphony 1000 allows companies to run any type of workload with enterprise- class performance, reliability, manageability, scalability, and flexibility. For example:
•BladeSymphony 1000 can be deployed at the edge tier — similar to dual-socket blade and rack server offerings from Dell, HP, IBM, and others — but with far greater reliability and scalability than competitive systems.
•BladeSymphony 1000 can be deployed at the application tier — similar to quad-socket blade server offerings from HP and IBM, but with greater reliability and scalability.
•BladeSymphony 1000 ideal for the database tier — similar to the IBM p-Series or HP rack-mount servers, but with a mainframe-class virtualization solution.
Designed with to be the first true enterprise-class blade server, the BladeSymphony 1000 provides outstanding levels of performance, scalability, reliability, and configuration flexibility.
•Performance — BladeSymphony 1000 supports both Intel Dual-Core Itanium and Dual-Core or Quad-Core Xeon processors in the same chassis. Utilizing Intel Itanium processors, it delivers 64-bit processing and large memory capacity (up to 256 GB) in an SMP configuration, as well as single Intel Xeon blade configurations, allowing organizations to optimize for 64-bit or 32-bit workloads and run all applications at extremely high performance. BladeSymphony 1000 also delivers large I/O capacity for high throughput.
•Scalability — BladeSymphony 1000 is capable of scaling out to eight Intel Dual-Core Itanium processor-based server blades in the same chassis, or scaling up to two 16 core SMP servers with Intel Dual-Core Itanium processor-based server blades.
