Hitachi BladeSymphony BS520H B3 combines the high-end features needed in 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 BladeSymphony BS520H B3 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
• Mainframe class high availability features (hot-swap, redundant components, automated failover)
• Latest Intel Xeon processors for better 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

Features

Scalability

• Scale out: to 8 x dual-socket E5 processor blades
• Scale up: 8-socket configuration with 4 double-width E7 processor blades supports 6TB
• Blade performance: Up to 8 CPUs, Intel Xeon E5 and E7 Family

Flexibility

• Ethernet, Fibre Channel and CNA options
• High bandwidth, configurable connectivity
• Disk Storage and PCI expansion blades

Efficiency

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

Availability

• Automated N+M blade detection and failover
• Redundant and hot-swap power and cooling
• Redundant I/O switch modules