Hitachi Compute Blade Family

Enterprise-level Blade Server Family

Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 blade server is an enterprise-class platform. Featuring a balanced system architecture, it eliminates bottlenecks in performance and throughput. Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 embedded logical partitioning feature supports unprecedented configuration flexibility.

Hitachi Compute Blade 320 delivers a combination of compute density and enterprise-class reliability that far exceeds the capabilities of rackmount servers and other blade servers. It operates with a level of simplicity that is absolutely unprecedented. It is the ideal platform for consolidating applications at the edge and application tier of the enterprise data center.

Compute Blade 2000 offers

• 10U chassis houses up to 8 server blade modules
• Depending on the two blade models available, 192GB and 256GB of memory are available
• Multiblade SMP interconnect technology

Compute Blade 320

• 6U chassis houses up to 10 server blade modules
• 110-volt power option for simple deployment

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Business Benefits

• Reduce cost through flexibility: With SMP scalability, plan and purchase for now, without worry or planning for excess resources you “may” need tomorrow
• Have greater security, isolation and performance with Hitachi logical partitioning feature (LPAR), which delivers significantly lower cost enablement than other software solutions
• Support changing requirements  with an open industry standard blade hardware platform. Get away from proprietary UNIX server environments and switched only I/O fabrics
• Hitachi blade servers run on x86 technology and also support industry standard PCIe slots
• One single vendor: Whether it’s enterprise storage or servers, Hitachi is the only partner that can provide enterprise level hardware and support services on a global scale
• Blade Server 2000 covers a wide range of computing environments from PC server consolidation to mission critical systems. Investment in one single platform can meet a wide variety of computing needs thus lowering total support and upfront capital costs
• Hitachi symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) technology lets you purchase server resources to satisfy compute requirements today without the need to anticipate future growth and compute requirements of tomorrow. When additional resources are required, purchase the additional blades and SMP connectors to scale up your server environment to satisfy future growth
• With up to 1TB addressable memory when using 4 blade SMP, a wide range of high performance applications can run on the Blade Server 2000 platform, alleviating the need for high end UNIX systems. This reduces the high hardware, software and support costs that are typically associated with UNIX or RISC systems
• Balanced architecture design of Hitachi blade servers insures there are no bottlenecks. The hybrid I/O design of Blade Server 2000 supports both an integrated switched fabric and direct access PCIe Gen 2 Slots to meet the IO requirements of the most demanding applications
• Blade Server 320 offers space and power efficiencies. Using SSD in a Blade Server 320 lets you support applications that require faster storage access

Datasheets

• Compute Blade 2000
• Compute Blade 320

Solution Profiles

• Hitachi Converged Platform for Microsoft® Exchange 2010
• Hitachi Solutions Built on Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Cloud Fast Track
• Unified Compute Platform

Technical Papers

• Deploying VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 with VMware vSphere 5.0 on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Reference Architecture Guide
• Installing and configuring Hitachi Compute Blade 2000, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500, and Exchange 2010 Management Packs to work with Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation Guide
• Local Replication of SAP Systems on Microsoft SQL Environments Using Hitachi Replication Manager on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Implementation Guide
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with Hitachi RBS Provider Adapter Implementation Guide

White Papers

• Deploying Citrix XenDesktop 5 with Citrix XenServer 5.6 SP2 on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Reference Architecture Guide
• Deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform with Hitachi Dynamic Tiering Implementation Guide
• Deploying SAP on Oracle with Distributed Instance using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Implementation Guide
• Hitachi Compute Blade 2000
• Hitachi Compute Blade 320
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with Hitachi RBS Provider Adapter Lab Validation Report

News

• Hitachi Data Systems Automates, Accelerates and Simplifies Cloud Adoption with Converged Data Center Solutions

See Also

• Microsoft Cloud Deployments
• Converged Platform for Microsoft Exchange