INTRODUCTION
HDS Compute Portfolio
Hitachi CB 2000 and VSP Management
HITACHI DATA SYSTEM
SOPHISTICATED
INFORMATION INSIGHT
CLOUD
FLUID CONTENT
CONTENT
CLOUD
DYNAMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE
CLOUD
ONE PLATFORM SINGLE VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM FOR
FOR ALL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE, CONTENT, INFORMATION
High reliability and availability
Rapid provisioning and deployment: Consolidate and simplify to eliminate silos
High efficiency through virtualization
Flexible response to dynamic workloads: Scalable to trillions of objects
Tightly integrated: Common management for compute and storage
Converged solution stacks: Open architecture – no rip and replace
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CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE STACK
Application End-to-End Stack
Vendor tests,
configures, installs, and
Hypervisor supports
Benefits of CI
Cuts deployment time,
Server cuts cost
Network “40% of larger enterprises are
planning to deploy some manner of
converged system”
Storage
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HITACHI COMPUTE BLADE
Built based on over 40 years of Hitachi heritage of
enterprise compute
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HITACHI COMPUTE BLADE SERVERS
A 50-YEAR+ TRADITION
OF LEADERSHIP
IN THE ENTERPRISE
COMPUTE MARKET
R&D innovation and
leadership
Quality and reliability
Service and support
5 1957: HIPAC-MK1 – first Hitachi digital computer
BUSINESS GLOBALIZATION
HITACHI COMPUTE PRODUCTS ARE INSTALLED IN MAJOR REGIONS
AROUND THE WORLD
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VIDEO
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HITACHI COMPUTE PORTFOLIO
High availability, performance and
HIGH-END scalability for the enterprise
BLADE Optimized for virtualization, maximizing
utilization in the data center
CB 2000
Highly dense chassis design optimized
MIDRANGE for virtualization and consolidation
BLADES Compact and flexible with a variety of
CB 500 blade and connectivity options
Compact and flexible application
RACK- server platform
OPTIMIZED Available exclusively in Hitachi
CR 220 file and content solutions
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HITACHI COMPUTE BLADE FAMILY
MISSION-CRITICAL CB 2000
High scalability,
COMPUTING reliability and
efficiency
Up to 8-socket scalability using
Dedicated, partitioned symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
resources I/O scalability for mission- critical
(High reliability, scalability, systems
and failure isolation)
Hot-swappable components
CB 500
VIRTUALIZATION Large memory capacity
High-I/O bandwidth and port
AND CLOUD sharing
Flexible virtualization
environments
Virtualization Logical partitioning manager
(Resource sharing, preinstalled
transaction performance, Functionality and performance
high-I/O bandwidth) for physical and virtual server
consolidation and cloud
infrastructure
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COMPUTE BLADE 2000
Enterprise-class Compute Platform
● Intel ®
Xeon® E5-2600, E5-2600V2, and E7-8800
Enterprise-class
Performance Series Blades; large addressable memory;
High bandwidth I/O, mission critical, embedded
LPAR virtualization
Enterprise-class ● Configure blades with 1 or 2 CPUs, dual, quad,
Scalability six, eight or ten cores; Scale out to 8 x dual-
socket blades; OR Scale-up to 4-blade (8-socket,
80-core!) SMP; or mix within the same chassis
Enterprise-class ● Redundant chassis, mainframe-class memory
Reliability management, backplane and I/O reliability;
hot-swap components, redundant or n+1 failover
Enterprise-class ● Intel ®
Xeon ®, Windows ® /Linux ®, PCIe
Flexibility ● Up to 160 core processors in a single chassis; up
to 16 PCI-e I/O slots, and 3TB memory in an
expandable chassis
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HITACHI COMPUTE BLADE 500
ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES FOR THE INFORMATION CENTER
− SYNERGY WITH HDS STORAGE
REDUCE COST AND RISK WITH CONVERGED SOLUTIONS
ENTERPRISE-CLASS Latest Intel Xeon processors
PERFORMANCE Large addressable memory
High-bandwidth I/O
ENTERPRISE-CLASS Configurations from 1-16 sockets (128 cores) per chassis
SCALABILITY Grow by adding blades (mix within the same chassis),
additional blade chassis or rack servers
ENTERPRISE-CLASS Hot-swap, redundant components, N+M failover modes for
RELIABILITY availability
Mainframe-class memory management and system design
for high reliability
ENTERPRISE-CLASS Embedded LPAR logical partitioning for efficiency and high
utilization
FLEXIBILITY Embedded Brocade VDX fabric switching for IP and Fibre
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Configuration options allow optimization for different
workloads
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COMPUTE BLADE 2000
Modular Design for Maximum Flexibility LAN Pass-thru
LAN Switches
10U chassis height 1 Gb or 1/10 Gb Module
19” rack compatible
FC Switch
Passive Mid-plane Server 8 Gb Module
Chassis
Management
Up to 8 blades Server Module
Blades
Cooling Fan
Module
PCI-e IO
Mid-plane
Power Supply
E5-2600 E7-8800 Module
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Compute Blade 2000
3 High Speed Fans
Front to back air flow design
Cold Air Ducting for Switch Module Cooling
Active Thermal Monitoring
Diffuser
Variable Speed FAN Modules
Top View
Cool Air-flow Redirection
Air
flow
Switch Bay
Air Entry
Switch
Modules
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HITACHI COMPUTE BLADE FRONT VIEW
Blade Server
Blade Server
Front Panel
Push Stick
Name Tag
Power Supply Power Supply
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HITACHI COMPUTE BLADE REAR VIEW
Switch Module
Fan Module Fan Module
Blade
Management
Module
PCIe Module
Power Supply Module
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IO SWITCH MODULES
Hitachi Compute Blade Switch Modules
Lineup
1Gb LAN-SW 1Gb LAN-SW 1Gb/10Gb 10Gb DCB-SW 1Gb LAN pass 10Gb LAN pass 8Gb FC-SW
module module (40 ports） LAN-SW module module through module through module module*2
# of Inter. 16 32 16 16 16 16 16
ports
Exter. 4 8 6 8 16 16 6
(Incl. 2 10Gb ports)
Ideal for cost- Ideal for multi- Ideal for Ideal for using Ideal for network Ideal for network Ideal for high-
saving standard port LAN configurations latest network configurations broad-bandwidth speed, high-
LAN configuration configurations requiring a broad- technologies*2 using external LAN connections, which reliability SAN
Characteristics required in bandwidth such as port switches use external LAN storage
virtualization external partitioning and switches connections
connections with FCoE
standard LANs
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SCALABILITY
CB 2000 BLADE OPTIONS
CB 2000 Compute Blades
AX55-R3 Blade AX55-S3 Blade
Feature
Sockets 1-2 2
CPU Xeon E5-2600 Xeon E5-2600
Cores 4-16 8-16
DIMM Slots 24 24
Max Memory 512 GB (2-socket) 512 GB (2-socket)
LPAR Support 30 30
PCIe/Mezzanine Slots 2/2 2/2
Hot Plug SAS Disks 6 -
Internal 1GbE Ports 2 2
RAID Cache backup Yes -
Boot LOCAL SAN
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SCALABILITY
CB 2000 BLADE OPTIONS
CB 2000 A2 Compute Blades
DP (X55)-A2 Blade MP (X57)-A2 Blade MP (X57)-A2 (SMP Mode)
Feature
Sockets 1-2 2 2, 8
Xeon 5600 Xeon E7-8800 Xeon E7-8800
CPU
(Max 3.46GHz) (10C 2.40GHz) (10C 2.40GHz)
Cores 2-12 6-20 Max 80
DIMM Slots 18 32 64, 128
768 GB (4-socket, SMP)
Max Memory 192 GB (2-socket) 384 GB (2-socket)
3072 GB (8-socket, SMP)
LPAR Support 60 60 60
PCIe/Mezzanine Slots 2/2 2/2 4/4, 8/8
Hot Plug SAS Disks 4 - -
Internal 1GbE Ports 2 2 4, 8
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COMPUTE BLADE 2000 BLADES WITH
INTEL XEON 7500, 8800 SERIES PROCESSORS
Scale up to 4 or 8 Sockets
Up to 2 Sockets per blade
(16 cores per blade)
32 Memory Slots
(16 Per Processor) Nehalem-EX Nehalem-EX
I/O Hub Multi-Blade SMP
ICH GbE
Boxboro-EX Scalability (2S)
PCIe Mezzanine Dual-port Gigabit
Ethernet ports
Up I/O Expansion
Up to 2 PCIe Slots
Mezzanine Slots
(PCIe Gen2 x8 lanes / slot)
(PCIe Gen2 x8 lanes / slot)
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AX55-R3 BLADE
Dual Socket Xeon Dual PCIe Gen 2 x 8 Paths
Intel Xeon E5 Series Processors Interfaces to Physical PCIe Slots on the Chassis
Dual Mezzanine Slots
24 Slots of DDR3 Memory Supports up to 2 Mezzanine Slots
Supports up to 384GB
Total Memory
LPAR H/W Raid
Embedded
Virtualization
Six 2.5” SAS Drives
USB and Serial Ports
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COMPUTE BLADE 2000 X55A2 BLADE
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COMPUTE BLADE 2000 – BLADE ARCHITECTURE
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COMPUTE BLADE 2000 - X57A1, X57A2 BLADE
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COMPUTE BLADE 2000 – BLADE ARCHITECTURE
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NEHALEM-EX SERVER SMP BLADE SET
Exclusive SMP Blade Design
Better I/O expandability than Rack-mount server
Nehalem-EX Server Blade
Supports up to 8 sockets
4 socket SMP Block Diagram (4 Blades)
Inter-blade SMP Capabilities
CPU CPU CPU CPU 32 memory slots per blade
Nehalem-EX Nehalem-EX Nehalem-EX Nehalem-EX
Max 512GB Memory
(2blades/4sockets)
Max 1TB (4blades/8sockets)
Based on 8GB DIMMs
ICH I/O Hub GbE GbE I/O Hub ICH
Boxboro-EX Boxboro-EX
Bandwidth:
128Gbps per blade
(Single Direction)
PCIe2.0 x8 lanes:
PCIe Mezzanine On Board NIC PCIe Mezzanine 8slots/2blades
16slots/4blades
Includes Mezzanin
Blade 0 Better I/O expandability than Blade 1
Xeon MP based rack mount servers
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