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PRODUCT INFORMATION

PRIMERGY BX Blade eXcellenceBuild for Dynamic Infrastructures

ContentsIntroduction 3 Value Drivers for Blade Servers 4 PRIMERGY Value Proposition 5PRIMERGY BX900 6PRIMERGY BX600 8PRIMERGY Blade Server

Hardware Overview 9Server Blades 10Connection Blade 11Storage Blades 12

System Management PRIMERGY ServerView Suite 13ServerView Virtual I/O Manager (VIOM) 15ServerView Resource Coordinator (RCVE) 16ServerView Resource Orchestrator (ROR) 17

Case Study - PRIMERGY BX 18How the portfolio works together 19Services 20Case Study - Managed Blade Server 22Summary 23

INTRODUCTION

IT- Infrastructure EvolutionCompanies and their business processes highly de-pend on their IT infrastructures in terms of applica-tions and IT-systems. The demand of computing po-wer increases unbroken, similarly to the performance of IT-systems increases year by year. For the data centers operation the needed energy for power and cooling are an increasing share compared to the pure acquisition costs. Blade servers offer not only for this challenge a new approach, but also advantages in the integration of other infrastructure components.

A smarter way to built an IT- InfrastructureA blade server is simply a clever way of setting up an IT infrastructure. At the beginning of blade server development the reasons that caused market growth were particularly self-evident. The systems offer advantages such as low space requirements, clearly arranged cabling and a large number of individual servers can be consolidated in one single chassis.

Today‘s blade server architectures go beyond that and help save time and costs through increased produc-tivity for most common IT tasks. You can use it to build business solutions that are more affordable, take less time to maintain, use less power and are ready to grow with your individual needs.

Blade Server MarketBlade servers are the fastest growing server form fac-tor worldwide. Whereas these servers accounted only 3% of worldwide server deliveries and 1.2% of global server revenue in 2003, the figures for blade servers are likely to grow to 22.3% of worldwide deliveries and 30.2% of global revenue in 2014.

PRODUCT INFORMATION PRIMERGY BX BLADE EXCELLENCE

VALUE DRIVERS FOR BLADE SERVERS

Lower Capital Expenses Rack mounted server require many repetitive parts, including cables, fan modules and supporting swit-ches. In comparison, the integrated midplane of a blade server consolidates LAN and SAN access and thereby reduces the number of interconnecting cab-les and devices. Typically, the cost of a single blade is greater than the cost of a single rack mounted server, but a 40 to 50 percent equipped blade enclosure will be more cost- effective than rack mounted servers.Furthermore blade servers have a smaller footprint than traditional tower or rack servers. Compared with these, blade servers can save up to 50% space.

Lower Operational Effort and Expense Blade servers are designed to provide simplified ser-ver management and reduced operational expenses compared with rack mounted servers. Blade Server combine server, storage capacity and networking components into a single enclosure and thus create the precondition for an easy management and lower management costs. The centralization of resources makes it easier to deploy servers, simplifies the admi-nistration and increases the control over the server.

Improve Energy Efficiency Blade servers require less power than rack servers, because infrastructure components are shared, the power supplies and fan modules have a higher effici-ency and the energy management is better integrated. This aspect is of particular importance because the kilowatt-costs per power have risen over the past se-veral years. Researches from market leading analysts indicate that for every 1€ of new server spending, customers spend an additional 0.50€ annually for po-wer and cooling, and if current trends continue, this ratio will reach 0.70€ spent on power and cooling in the next five years.

Flexible and Simplified Infrastructure Adding more and more servers in an existing envi-ronment increases the complexity within the server room. Additional servers often mean adding net-work-based storage as well as increasing the comple-xity of the LAN. This poses significant problems for IT staff as they struggle to identify more cost-effec-tive, simpler ways to manage the increasing comple-xity of servers, storage, and network environments.The blade server concept simplifies the cabling of servers. Rack servers have to be connected via vari-ous connections to the outside world. Each additio-nal rack server requires additional cables for power, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, KVM, cluster interconnect, etc. Additional blade servers can be integrated wit-hout additional cabling into the existing blade enclo-sure. The savings in cabling can be up to 70%.In addition, the blade concept provides modular upgrade path opportunities, so that new technologies can be integrated into existing environments.

Blade servers integrate infrastructure components in a common housing. In addition to the server- and storage blades, additional I/O components such as Ethernet-, Fibre Channel- and InfiniBand- switches can be integrated in the blade enclosure. Blade systems can reduce capital expenditures and operating costs, improve energy efficiency, and introduce more flexibility into the IT environment.


PRIMERGYTHE POWER OF ENTERPRISEThe perfect platform for Dynamic InfrastructuresBased on industry standard architectures, Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers are the best answer to the do-more-with-less challenge. Based on Intel® Xeon® processor technology, PRIMERGY servers represent a rock solid base which delivers high quality, via sta-te-of-the-art technology and features at competitive costs. By helping organizations improve operational efficiency and reducing TCO, they are the foundation for Dynamic Infrastructures and the best in class IT infrastructure solutions from Fujitsu like FlexFrame, ETERNUS CS, x10sure, ServerView Resource Coor-dinator VE and ServerView Resource Orchestrator.

Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX Blade ServersPRIMERGY BX blade servers are the perfect choi-ce for today’s and tomorrow’s datacenter solutions, where the key demands are reliability, performance, and connectivity. BX blade servers provide high performance and maximum redundancy with mi-nimum rack space, power consumption and cabling complexity, and are designed from the ground-up for a broad range of applications ranging from Web or terminal servers on up to high-performance databa-ses. And as business requirements grow, PRIMERGY BX blade servers can easily accommodate the chan-ges in volume, traffic and transactions.

The Fujitsu PRIMERGY blade servers satisfies all needs of branch offices, midmarket companies and data center environments, and are complemented with a comprehensive offering of solutions and services.


FUJITSU PRIMERGY BX900DYNAMIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN A CUBEThe Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 is a complete dynamic server infrastructure in a single chassis. The blade server adapts itself dynamically to various IT requirements and thus reduces costs while at the same time in-creasing IT agility. The PRIMERGY BX900 can house up to 18 server blades in a 10U chassis and thus offers the highest packing density for a large number of applications to be served. Through the use of Cool-safe™, our protected cooling concept, combined with highly efficient power supply units and the embedded Server-View® Power Manager software, it provides a really dynamic power and cooling that saves money. Equipped with the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 and 7500 series, large memory capacities and state-of-the-art I/O performance, the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 is optimized for almost all application and virtualization sce-narios. Due to its fully redundant design and the combination with ServerView® Resource Coordinator VE, the PRIMERGY BX900 can completely protect itself against any possible failure and has the fastest automatic recovery. With its high scalability and space for up to 18 Server Blades, 8 Connection Blades, 6 power supply units and 2 management boards in a 10U high chassis, the PRIMERGY BX900 provides an enormous density. Combined with its ability to interconnect several system enclosures and to stack Ethernet Connection Blades over chassis boundaries, the system allows comprehensive and easy manageability and flexible scaling, and it provides complete investment protection for flexible growth scenarios.

Holistic energy and thermal management for changing demands in the data center:g Power Consumption Monitoringg Power Consumption Limitingg Power Consumption Controlg Power Consumption Budgeting

ServerView® Power Manager

Dynamic Power & Cooling

The Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 is setting new standards throughout the industry with its significantly reduced energy consumption. The innovative cooling concept Cool-safe™ makes lower demands on the air condi-tioning. State-of-the-art PSU technology and innovative server management functions, such as ServerView® Power Manager, provide companies with the opportunity to greatly reduce their power and cooling costs.

g EPA compliant power supply modules with high efficiency up to more than 90%

g Big fans and airflow channels cool processors and memory directly and more quietly

Benefits:g Cool-safe™ design cuts temperature by 10°C and

doubles lifetime of electronic components!g Prevents from overheating by keeping cool air

coming into the system, and moving the hot air out of the system

Cool-safe™ Technology


The server blades of the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 are equipped with processors of the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 and 7500 series as well as high memory expandability with up to 512GB per server blade. Various server boot options, e.g. from local HDDs or Solid State Drives, from a USB Flash mod-ule for VMware ESXi or via the network make the server blades ideal for every application. It is thus an excellent platform for both virtualized and physical environments. Together with the ServerView® Re-source Coordinator, the PRIMERGY BX900 makes a contribution towards simplified IT operation: physical and virtual servers are controlled in a stan-dardized way via the same management console.The integrated onboard 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers support VMDq and SR-IOV. SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) defines a method to share a physical function of an I/O port of the NIC without software emulation. This process creates a number of virtual functions per physical port of the I/O device. Each virtual function is directly assigned to a virtual machine, thereby achieving near native performance for each virtual machine on a physical server, as well as data protection between the virtual machines.

Dynamic Virtualization

Within the PRIMERGY BX900 the ServerView® Re-source Coordinator VE (RCVE) can be used to ad-dress unplanned downtime scenarios. By automati-cally triggering server switchover operations when a physical server fails, business applications can be resumed without any administrator intervention. Compared to manual recovery processes, server recovery time is reduced significantly, thus resulting in faster reaction to server failures. By leveraging this automated server switchover capability, RCVE enables the implementation of a very cost-effective HA concept.

The basic idea is to share one or a few spare servers between many production servers. This so-called N+1 high-availability concept can drastically re-duce the number of required non-productive spare systems, thus leading to increased efficiency in server operations. In addition of using RCVE’s auto recovery features of failed servers for unplanned downtime scenarios, it can also be used to address planned / maintenance scenarios with its server switchover functionality.

Dynamic Availability

By design, the PRIMERGY BX900 is optimized for investment protection through its scalability. The system has an interconnect enabled, high-density design that allows performance upgrades through the addition of further PRIMERGY BX900 units.In addition, the system architecture enables Fujitsu to offer two more blades than in a standard 10U server chassis – with a record-taking 18-blade design. Thanks to these extra blades, the Dynamic Cube immediately offers 12 percent more system performance. With space for up to 18 Server Blades, 8 Connection Blades, 6 power supply units and 2 management boards in a 10U high chassis, the PRIMERGY BX900 has the highest density. Combined with its stackability the system allows the most flexible scaling.

Dynamic Scalability

FUJITSU PRIMERGY BX600ADVANCED BLADE ECOSYSTEMThe Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX600 S3 is ideal for branch offices and upper midmarket companies in the area of small business applications and in virtualizati-on scenarios. The system is particularly suited for customers, who want to reduce their costs for power and cooling, as well as to consolidate the previous IT infrastructure and thus reduce network and cable complexity.The PRIMERGY Blade Ecosystem is the ideal choice for infrastructure solutions in which a reliable and proven platform with state-of-the-art server bla-de technology is needed. The Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX600 S3 Blade Server is a compact, power-saving and scalable server system, occupies seven height units in the rack and can accommodate up to ten server blades of different models and configurations. The BX600 S3 offers a high level of reliability and availability through highly developed hardware and software components. This includes hot-swappable server blades, switch blades, Fibre Channel (FC) and Ethernet connection blades, management blades, hot-swappable power supply units and fan modules, the server management software ServerView®, Prefai-lure Detection and Analyzing (PDA), and Automatic Server Reconfiguration and Restart (ASR&R).

Advantages of the PRIMERGY BX600g Investment protection through continuity in the

development of components, blades and chassisg State-of-the-art technology with the latest genera

tion Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series and high memory capacity of up to 192GB per server blade

g Innovative Cool-safe™ design combined with ServerView® Power Management software ensures an excellent concept for power and cooling

g Easy and reliable remote management capabilities through the integrated Remote Management con-troller (iRMC S2)

g Simplified day-to-day operations and a flexible usable I/O concept through ServerView® Resource Coordinator and ServerView® Virtual I/O Manager


Model Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX600 S3 Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900Characteristics Ideal suited for branch offices and medium- size

businesses. The system convinces with investment protection through continuity in the development of components, server blades and the chassis and yet offers the advantages of the latest technology.

Complete dynamic server infrastructure in a single chassis for enterprise data centers. Next generation blade server ecosystem designed for constantly changing IT envi-ronments. New high-end product that complements the PRIMERGY BX Blade Server family.

Form Factor 7U chassis for 19-inch rack 10U chassis for 19-inch rack

Dimensions (H,W,D) 307 x 446 x 735 mm 435 x 445 x 778 mm

Front Bays 10 full height bays for hot-plug server or storage blades

18 half height or 9 full height bays for hot-plug server or storage blades

Rear Bays 4x for Connection Blades 4x for PSU modules 2x for Management Blades1x for KVM module

8x for Connection Blades6x for PSU modules2x for Management Blades

Midplane High speed midplane with 2 redundant fabrics High speed midplane with 4 redundant fabrics

Management Blades 2x hot-plug and redundant Management Blades as standard

1x hot-plug Management Blade as standard, redundant Management Blades as option

Fan Configuration 2x hot-plug and redundant fan modules as standard 3 to 6 hot-plug, redundant fan modules

Power Supply Configu-ration

Up to 4x hot-plug power supply modules(2x as standard)

Up to 6x hot-plug power supply modules(3x as standard)

Connection Blade Types CB Eth Pass-Thru 1 Gb 10/10CB Eth Switch/IBP 1 Gb 30/12CB FC Pass-Thru 4 Gb 10/10CB FC Switch 4 Gb 10/6CB Eth Switch 1 Gb 10/6 + 2

CB FC Switch 8 Gb 26 port Brocade 5450CB FC Pass-Thru 8 Gb 18/18CB Eth Switch/IBP 1 Gb 36/12CB Eth Switch/IBP 1 Gb 36/8 + 2CB Eth Switch/IBP 10 Gb 18/8CB IB Switch 40 Gb 18/18CB Eth Pass-Thru 10 Gb 18/18

FUJITSU PRIMERGY BXHARDWARE OVERVIEW


Model PRIMERGY BX620 S5

PRIMERGY BX620 S6

PRIMERGY BX920 S2

PRIMERGY BX922 S2

PRIMERGY BX924 S2

PRIMERGY BX960 S1

Characteristics Energy-efficient and high-performance virtualization platform

Next generation platform maxi-mizing energy efficiency and performance

Universal Dual-Socket server blade with highcomputing and I/Operformance in a small form factor

Future-orientedserver blade withall the prerequisi-tes for virtualizati-on environments

The VirtualizerDual-Socket server blade for maximum number of virtual machi-nes per ccm

Dynamics paired with high scaling

Type Dual- Socket server blade

Dual- Socket server blade




Quad- Socket server blade

Max. number per system unit

10 10 18 18 18 9

Processors Intel® Xeon® processor5500 series

Intel® Xeon® processor5600 series





Memory capacity 1 GB – 96 GB,12 DIMM (DDR3)

1 GB – 192 GB,12 DIMM (DDR3)

2 GB – 144 GB,9 DIMM (DDR3)

2 GB – 192 GB,12 DIMM (DDR3)

1 GB – 288 GB,18 DIMM (DDR3)

8 GB – 512 GB,32 DIMM (DDR3)

Hard disks max. 2xHDD SAS 2.5-inch 73/146/300 GB

HDD SATA 2.5-inch 160/320 GB

SSD SATA 2.5-inch 32/64 GB

max. 2xHDD SAS 2.5-inch 73/146/300 GB

HDD SATA 2.5-inch 160/320 GB


max. 2xHDD SAS 2.5-inch 73/146/300 GB

HDD SATA 2.5-inch 160/320/500 GB


max. 2xSSD SATA 2.5-inch 32/64 GB(non hot-plug)



Ethernet controller onboard

6 x Gbit Ethernet 6 x Gbit Ethernet 4 x Gbit Ethernet 4 x Gbit Ethernet 2x10 Gbit Ethernet

4x10 Gbit Ethernet

Mezzanine cards 1 x PCIe x8(Quad 1Gbit Eth,Dual 4Gbit FC)

1 x PCIe x8(Quad 1Gbit Eth,Dual 4Gbit FC)

2 x PCIe Gen2 x8(Quad 1Gbit Eth, Dual 10Gbit Eth, Dual 8Gbit FC , Dual 40Gbit IB)




FUJITSU PRIMERGY BXSERVER BLADE OVERVIEW


FUJITSU PRIMERGY BXCONNECTION BLADE OVERVIEW


Model Ethernet Switch/IBP 1Gbit/s36/12

Ethernet Switch/IBP 1Gbit/s36/8+2

Ethernet Switch/IBP 10Gbit/s18/18

Fibre Channel Switch 8Gbit/s 18/8

InfiniBand Switch 40Gbit/s 18/18

Supported system units

PRIMERGY BX900S1 PRIMERGY BX900S1 PRIMERGY BX900S1 PRIMERGY BX900S1 PRIMERGY BX900S1

Down-link ports 36 x 1 Gb Eth 36 x 1 Gb Eth 18 x 10 Gb Eth 18 x 8 Gb FC 18 x 40 Gb IB

Up-link ports 8 x 1 Gb Eth RJ454 x 1 Gb Eth SFP

8 x 1 Gb Eth RJ452 x 10 Gb SFP+

8 x 10 Gb Eth SFP+ 8 universal Fibre Channel ports

18 x 40 Gb IB


6 (Connection Blade Slot 1/2 3/4 5/6)


4 (Connection Blade Slot 3/4 5/6)

4 (Connection Blade Slot 3/4 5/6)


Benefits g Variable usage in one of the 8 connec-tion slots on the rear of a system unitg Effortless switching between the pure switch and the IBP functionality allows flexible use depending on demandsg High scalability due to a large number of external connectionsg The IBP mode avoids protocol compatibility problems and offers extended functions in compa-rison to the standard switch mode

g Variable use in up to 6 installation bays on the rear of a BX900 system unit g Easy switching between the switch and IBP functionality enables flexible use depending on the requirement g Variable link to external networks with both low and extremely highbandwidths; bundling option for several internal 1 Gb on external 10Gb connectionsg Top management flexibility due to the standardized view of a group of several similar Connection Blades within one or more blade servers

g Effortless selection of pure switch or IBP functionality allows flexible use respon-ding to demandg Perfect transmis-sion of data from Mezzanine cards to various externalnetworksg Variable connection to external networks with extremely highbandwidthg Today’s investment in this connection blade (CB) guarantees long-term operability; this CB is usable also in the future, when FCoE technologyis being introduced for blade servers

g Maximizes band-width and perfor-mance in order to support the mostdemanding use of server blades and virtual serversg Reduces costs and complexity by conso-lidating band width, ports and cablesg Low-priced scaling for growing environ-ments; enables a flexible configuration of the server or the SAN ports with on-demand extension to 26 portsg Secures invest-ments in existing storage and SAN devicesg Increases the avai-lability via automatic failover to the next available or assigned port

g Leading industrial switch platform as regards performance, power consumption and packing density g High bandwidth, low latency for compute-intensive applications g Automatic and dynamic routing of data traffic to avoid overload g Management

- Monitoring oftemperature and power consumption

- Health check- Configuration

settings- Hot-pluggable

PRIMERGY BX Connection Blades simplify network connectivity for PRIMERGY BX Blade Servers, ensur-ing fast, reliable and flexible access to data and storage networks. All Connection Blades are integrated within the chassis and benefit from a high-speed midplane as well as from energy-efficient power and cooling. A wide range of different Connection Blades are available to address current and next-generation I/O require-ments for standards-based Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and Ethernet networks.

Model PRIMERGY SX650 PRIMERGY SX910 PRIMERGY SX940Characteristics Simple low-price server

consolidation andextension of the internalstorage capacity

For easy and fast data backup For easy and costeffective serverconsolidation

Type Storage blade disk Storage blade tape Storage blade disk


5 6 6

Hard disks max. 5xHDD SAS 2.5-inch 73 / 146 / 300 GB

HDD SATA 2.5-inch 160 / 320 GB

max. 1xLTO 3HH Ultrium, 400 GB , 60 MB/s, half height, SAS 3Gb/sLTO 4HH Ultrium, 800 GB , 120 MB/s, half height, SAS 3Gb/s

max. 4xHDD SAS 2.5-inch73 / 146 / 300 GB

HDD SATA 2.5-inch160 / 320 / 500 GB,

SSD SATA 2.5-inch32 / 64 GB

FUJITSU PRIMERGY BXSTORAGE BLADE OVERVIEW


PRIMERGY SX Storage Blades are designed for installation into the PRIMERGY BX system units, together with the PRIMERGY Server Blades. The introduction of Storage Blades Disk for all PRIMERGY Blade Ser-vers offers an easy and cost effective server consolidation opportunity, i.e. for a transition from rack or tower servers to high density Blade Server architecture. On the other hand, usage of tape drive equipped Storage Blades (available for certain Blade Servers) offers an easy and fast way to backup system data locally. It is often essential to have local access to large amounts of data; this for example applies to the world of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), where smaller workgroups locally have to work on and create very large models. Operation within confined environments as file servers as well as for Microsoft® SharePoint portals and Mi-crosoft® SQL Servers are popular usage cases for disk-based Storage Blades.

SERVER MANAGEMENTPRIMERGY SERVERVIEW SUITEServerView® Suite is the key to higher value and efficiency of IT operation. It covers all functionality for a fail-safe, flexible and automated twenty-four-seven server operation and improves end-user productivity with intelligent and innovative system management solutions. Thereby the support of technologies for virtualizati-on and higher dynamics of IT infrastructures is already taken into account. It delivers optimized deployment, permanent status monitoring and extensive control or analysis during malfunctions hich result in less ou-tages as well as improved maintenance and service quality. Most energy efficient server operation is assured by latest power monitoring and control functions. Seamless integration of PRIMERGY in heterogeneous IT landscapes with different management is natural.

DeployServerView® Installation Manager enables error-free configuration and unattended installation of ope-rating systems and management software. This can be done either locally via media or remotely and for multiple servers in parallel using PXE boot and a deployment server. To reduce administration costs when deploying server farms ServerView® Deploy-ment Manager can install a large number of servers in parallel or rapidly multiply a server installation to a single server or groups of servers. Automated and time-controlled cloning uses centrally held boot ima-ges in an own image repository database for highest flexibility.

ControlServerView® Operations Manager offers proven, flexible and safe control of several thousand devices. It consolidates all management tasks in a single easy-to-use web-based tool. The continous preventive twenty-four-seven monitoring of physical and virtual servers and infrastructure components as storage extension units or uninterruptable power supplies greatly increases system availability.The clearly structured management console with a simplifies administration. It provides a status over-view of all monitored devices and instantly visualizes any malpractice. Extensive graphical support eases to identify the failure cause and locate defective com-ponents for quick remedy. Moreover the configurable Event Management reliably and location-indepen-dent informs in detail on critical server states. Admi-nistration is also eased by uniform RAID-, storage-, management and performance management helping to determine current or long-term bottlenecks. Further the following server built-in features support uninterruptible operation: Pre-Failure Detection and Analysis (PDA) proactively monitors server components with a limited lifespan, such as fans or CMOS batteries. It alerts if their performance decli-nes and thus enables an early exchange. Automatic Server Reconfiguration & Restart (ASR&R) becomes effective if components such as CPU or memory fail unexpectedly. The faulty component is immediately removed from the configuration and a server reboot is initiated. A longer, complete system failure can thus be prevented.


SERVER MANAGEMENTPRIMERGY SERVERVIEW SUITE

IntegrateServerView® Integration Packs enable seamless and easy integration of PRIMERGY servers in enterprise or other vendor’s management systems.

DynamizeServerView Suite also covers revolutionary manage-ment solutions which dramatically reduce comple-xity, improve flexibility and efficiency at deployment and operation of both physical and virtual server environments. Previously complex and time-consu-ming data center tasks are carried out much easier and in minutes versus hours or days. Proven and mature solutions here are ServerView® Virtual IO-Manager and ServerView Resource Coordinator VE.

MaintainServerView®Suite offers powerful tools and func-tions for failure prevention, trouble shooting and fast recovery. ServerView® Remote Management for PRIMERGY BX Servers provides extensive remote control, enabling to fully control and analyze the ser-vers irrespective of their system status. ServerView® Update Management updates the server configura-tion with regard to BIOS, firmware, OS drivers and ServerView management software. Depending on the requirements it supports updating a single ser-ver via media or centralized and automated remote updating of a many servers in parallel with minimal interruption of IT production. ServerView® Asset Manager helps to run systems safer. It compares inventory data to identify configuration changes and possible caused problems.


SERVERVIEW VIRTUAL I/O MANAGER (VIOM)SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT OF I/O ADDRESSES


Traditional I/O infrastructureEach server I/O adapter comes with a pre-assigned default physical network address (WWN or MAC) used to identify servers on SAN or LAN networks. This makes it necessary to reconfigure network settings when performing server deployment, main-tenance and recovery tasks. Reconfiguration of the network settings normally involves many manual steps like re-cabling, and it requires the assistance of network and storage administrators. Depending on the coordination between the admin teams, a net-work reconfiguration process can considerably slow down server admin tasks.

I/O virtualizationI/O virtualization technology puts an abstraction layer between the servers and the external networks. Instead of using default Media Access Control (MAC) addresses for Network Interface Controllers (NICs) and default World Wide Names (WWNs) for Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), virtual customer-defined addresses are used because they can be flexibly as-signed to specific server blades. Although the hard-ware ships with default MAC addresses and WWNs, I/O virtualization resets these addresses prior to the boot sequence so that only the virtual addresses are used during operation. I/O virtualization lets server administrators add, maintain or failover servers wit-hout affecting complex network settings.

I/O virtualization with VIOMVIOM is an I/O virtualization technology specifically designed for blade server environments. VIOM uses a special server profile to store blade-specific infor-mation like I/O addresses, I/O connections or even boot parameters. Each server profile is stored in a central repository and serves as a pointer to a boot image, enabling administrators to run an application by simply assigning a profile to a server blade. As each profile can be moved not only within the same blade chassis, but also across hundreds of server blades residing in different chassis, VIOM paves the way for substantial improvements in scalability and flexibility.

In combination with the Intelligent Blade Panel (IBP) it is not only possible to keep MAC addresses cons-tant, but also to keep the network path to a specific uplink. This is particularly useful in configurations where many customers residing in separate physical or virtual networks should be operated within the same blade chassis. If a blade is moved or exchanged, IBP makes sure that the new blade will be connected to the correct customer network segment.

The VIOM approach goes far beyond virtualization of WWN and MAC addresses of a server. In addition to WWN and MAC addresses, a VIOM server profile can contain other parameters like BIOS settings, also making it possible to keep those settings constant in server switchover or failover scenarios. The ultimate goal is to virtualize as many server parameters as possible to have a stateless blade, offering maximum flexibility for assigning server resources to applica-tions.

SERVERVIEW RESOURCE COORDINATOR (RCVE)SIMPLIFYING OPERATIONS IN MIXED ENVIRONMENTS


Cost-Effective High Availability If a server fails, ServerView Resource Coordinator VE automatically starts a spare system to prevent downtime. In this way, a large number of production servers in a pool can be protected by one or a few substitute servers (N:1 failover). The spare servers can be jointly used in mixed, physical and virtual environments. And the high availability function complements existing high availability functions of the hypervisor vendors for their virtual machines and can be combined with them as desired.

Uniform ManagementServer virtualization is a key enabler for building dynamic IT infrastructures and many experts share the vision of a completely virtualized IT infrastruc-ture. But despite the rapid growth rates of server virtualization products, the percentage of x86 server workloads running in virtual machines today is still low. This means that mixed operation of physical and virtual servers will be a long-term reality in most data centers. As a result, there will be a need for ma-nagement tools that can handle the management of both physical and virtual environments. RCVE addresses the management challenges in a heterogeneous physical and virtual server environ-ment by integrating the administration of physical and virtual servers as much as possible. Using a single console, RCVE provides visualization of server resource states and common basic operations on physical and virtual servers. For managing mixed hypervisor environments, RCVE has a uniform inter-face for common administrative tasks like start, stop, reboot or live migration operations for all supported hypervisor products. Virtual resources and their re-lationships to physical systems are shown on a single console. In PRIMERGY blade server environments this includes the monitoring of physical and virtual network connections, which enables server adminis-trators with limited network skills to easily confirm the network configuration.

Simplified Lifecycle ManagementRCVE enables fully-automated server deployment for entire server farms through integrated cloning and remote system image distribution capabilities. Furthermore, RCVE makes it possible to create sys-tem image backups, which are centrally managed on the admin server.Leveraging the integrated fully-automated server deployment capabilities, RCVE also simplifies and speeds up hardware maintenance by easy and auto-mated restoration of system images after hardware components have been replaced. Server downtime due to maintenance tasks can now be reduced to a minimum.

SERVERVIEW RESOURCE ORCHESTRATOR (ROR)FAST AND EASY PROVISIONING OF IT RESOURCES


With ServerView® Resource Orchestrator (ROR), Fujitsu offers a next-generation system management software that enables IT organizations to deliver IT infrastructure resources faster while at the same time lowering the barriers for users to gain access to IT resources. Automation of provisioning processes helps to streamline infrastructure administration workflows with a positive impact on operational data center costs. A logical server concept hides the com-plexity of the underlying physical infrastructure and provides users with an interface from which they can request server resources easily and efficiently. ROR serves as a key building block for companies moving forward on their way to implement more dynamic resource management in order to integrate and run their infrastructure in a cloud computing environ-ment.

Resource OrchestrationThe foundation for effective resource orchestration is ROR’s ability to automatically provision a physical or virtual server from shared pools of infrastructure resources (physical and virtual servers, storage, net-work, OS images). For management of the individual resource pools, ROR not only provides interfaces to Fujitsu’s own management platforms, it also can in-tegrate with management products from technology partners.

ROR enables collective management of resources in “resource groups” allowing a clear separation of resources belonging to different users groups, which enables multi-tenant management in larger scale env-ironments, where a huge amount of resources have to be managed. Moreover, user and role-based manage-ment capabilities allow IT organizations to enforce enterprise-specific security policies.

Resource AbstractionIn order to give IT users easier and more dynamic access to server resources, ROR introduces a logical server concept, which hides the complexity of the underlying IT infrastructure. A logical server is an abstract server definition, which describes all para-meters required to setup a physical or virtual server, including storage and network settings. ROR mana-ges the complete life-cycle of logical servers.

Advantages Compared To Traditional Provisioning g Deliver system resources to applications much

faster and speed up rollout processes g Time savings of up to 90% g Increase utilization of invested hardwareg Increase quality of serviceg Improve consistency and compliance of your

system configuration through standardization and automation

g Increase agility through fast adaptation of your IT infrastructure to changing business needs

g Build an SLA-based IT operation with a high level of service orientation

CASE STUDY


» THE EXPERIENCE OF FUJITSU IN THE DATA CENTER AREA IS HELPING US DRIVE OUR CONSOLIDATION AND OPTIMIZATI-ON PLANS FORWARD.«Alfredo Micozzi, Coordination Center for Infrastructures, ICT Systems and Applications, IT Dept., Italian Red Cross

The Italian Red Cross maintains a network that is the only one of its kind in Italy. With 150,000 vol-unteer workers at more than 1,000 locations, the Italian Red Cross provides humanitarian services country-wide.

THE CUSTOMER

Technical assistance to support consolidation and optimization of the IT environment of the Italian Red Cross. Deployment of a PRIMERGY BX900 Blade Server system and ETERNUS DX80 online storage in combination with x10sure, the automated, application-independent high-availability solution for physical and virtual servers from Fujitsu.

THE SOLUTION

Deployment of an efficient in-house e-mail infrastructure on a flexibly scalable platform that features high performance and high-availability management plus the possibility of integration of further services and applications in the future.

THE PROJECT

ITALIAN RED CROSS PHASES IN A DYNAMIC IT PLATFORMIn an initial phase, the Italian Red Cross set up e-mail accounts on the PRIMERGY BX900 Blade Server system for all volun-teers who rely on e-mail messaging. The e-mail accounts of permanent staff and institutional groups that are now adminis-tered on a different system will be migrated to the new platform in a second phase. Finally, a third phase will involve further consolidation of services and applications. PRIMERGY BX900 provides optimal support for step-by-step migration to create a dynamic IT environment. Eighteen server blades in a 10-U chassis mean not only the highest performance density available on the market but also maximum flexibility to drive the conso-lidation strategy of the Italian Red Cross forward. The power and cooling systems of the PRIMERGY BX900 are designed to deliver efficiency in excess of 90%, which means savings in the form of significantly lower energy costs. When applicationswere consolidated on the Blade Server system, various appli-cations were also migrated from the physical server to virtual machines. Partnering with Fujitsu, Italian Red Cross decision-makers decided in advance which applications would come into question here. “No plans exist to virtualize e-mail service, but we are considering the use of virtual servers for other applica-tions,” says Micozzi. However, the ETERNUS DX80 diskstorage system provides outstanding support in the case of scenarios involving centralized data storage and availability. With exceptional scalability from less than one to up to a maxi-mum of 120 terabytes on Nearline SAS, SAS and advanced SSD storage media, compliance with different service levels becomes extremely cost-effective. x10sure gives the Italian Red Cross a high-availability solution that also leverages the benefits of server virtualization. Micozzi emphasizes that “the use ofx10sure with only a single failover server for an entire series of productive systems and automatic restart within only a few minutes without manual intervention is definitely an impor-tant aspect for us since it gives us an efficient way to guarantee uninterrupted service.”

NEXT GENERATION INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTION FROM ITALIAN RED CROSS BASED ON PRIMERGY BX900 IN COMBINATION WITH x10sure


HOW THE PORTFOLIO WORKS TOGETHER

CHALLENGE: High complexity, slow response to business demands and too much time spent for administration

INNOVATION:g ServerView® Resource Coordinatorg ServerView® Virtual I/O Managerg Latest blade technology, high I/O flexibility and bandwidth

HOW WE DO IT: ServerView® Suite supports 24/7 operation and improves user productivity with intelligent system management solutions. Optimized deployment, permanent monitoring and extended control or analysis in the event of faults mean less downtimes as well as improved maintenance and service quality. With a PRIMERGY BX Blade Server you can add, replace, move or recover blades and virtual machines in minutes instead of days or weeks without involving numerous administrators. ServerView® Resource Coordinator VE is the latest generation of our server resource management software. The software provides standardized operation of physical and virtual servers. ServerView® Virtual I/O Manager simplifies the adminis-tration of PRIMERGY Blade Servers in LAN and SAN environments and offers maximum flexibility for your operations. It minimizes an entire layer of complexity from today‘s switch architectures through virtualization of physical network addresses and clear separation of server management from LAN and SAN management.

CHALLENGE: Rising energy consumption with inefficient cooling generating higher costs and limiting future growth

INNOVATION:g Cool-safe™ technologyg ServerView® Power Managerg Super efficient power supply modules

HOW WE DO IT: With Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX Blade Servers you can save up to 50% of the costs for power and cooling in comparison with standard rack-server infrastructures. Our innovative cooling concept is designed to reduce your electric bill and put less strain on the air conditioning. Monitoring and measurement capabilities of the ServerView® Power Management helps you to understand power and cooling conditions and resolve issues before they impact cost or performance. State-of-the-art power supply modules provide companies with the opportunity to greatly reduce their power and cooling costs.

CHALLENGE: Protect data and business processes for maintaining a successful business and stay competitive

INNOVATION:g ServerView® Resource Coordinatorg Full redundant system designg PreFailure Detection & Analysisg Investment protection through scalability

HOW WE DO IT: ServerView® Resource Coordinator can be used to address unplanned downtime scenarios. By automatically triggering server switchover operations when a physical server fails, business applications can be resumed without any administrator intervention. Due to simplification and automation RCVE enables dynamic allocation of server resources for applications and low-priced high availability with a simultaneous reduction in operative costs.Equipped with the latest Intel® Xeon® processor series, large memory capacities and state-of-the-art I/O performance, the PRIMERGY BX blade servers are optimized for almost all application and virtualization scenarios. Due to their full redundant system designs and the PreFailure Detec-tion & Analysis the blade servers can protect themselves against possible failures. With their high scalability and the highest available blade server density in the market the systems provide complete investment protection for flexible growth scenarios.

SERVICESHELPING TRANSLATE IT INTO BUSINESS


Today your company‘s IT must support the overall business like any other depart-ment. Rather than the IT just supporting existing business processes, companies must develop new IT-focused opportunities that allow them to gain and maintain competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive global market. Fujitsu can provide you with a complete range of infrastructure services that allow you to de-liver an optimization of the overall IT while reducing overall costs, improving ROI and still delivering outstanding service quality to your users.

Maintenance and Support Services In addition to cutting-edge products and solution, Fujitsu delivers world-wide Maintenance and Sup-port Services for heterogeneous infrastructures out of one hand: From integrating new technologies in IT infrastructure to providing fast and uncomplicated support proactively. This ensures smooth IT operati-on right from the start while intern IT specialist can concentrate on their core business. Depending on the best fit for the customer’s situation, our specialists propose standardized service offers or design and realize customized service solutions.

Financial Services IT financing has become increasingly popular in today’s ever-evolving technological environment. We can transition fixed costs into variable costs, thereby allowing you to conserve your capital. Fujitsu Financial Services offers a complete portfolio of financial solutions enabling the planning, transiti-oning, acquiring, managing, and retiring of your dy-namic IT infrastructure. Our strong global presence allows us to provide financial solutions in all key international markets through our presence in over 50 countries. We cooperate with select leading global IT financing partners to offer custom solutions based on customer, local, and regional requirements.

g Prompt and reliable installation of your new IT equipment tailored

to your needsg Configuration of hardware and operating software in line with

specific customer requirements

InstallationPack

g Fast and efficient expert service to ensure a prompt elimination of hardware faults

g Perfect extension on top of the standard warranty

ServicePack/Contract Hardware

g The right level of software serviceg Smooth, trouble-free operation with proactive services

ServicePack/Contract Software

g Problem analysis and solution for hardware and software

components of the infrastructureg One single point of contact for all problems with your solution

infrastructure

SolutionContract

SERVICESSMOOTH IT OPERATION RIGHT FROM THE START


Managed InfrastructuresIT departments and data centers are increasingly faced with the challenge of managing a wide range of hardware and software products from multiple ven-dors and operating at different locations. Flexibility and fast integration are essential. Managed Services from Fujitsu offer solutions that reduce IT complexi-ty and total cost of ownership while also improving overall IT governance, helping you maintain agreed service levels and facilitating growth in emerging business fields such as mobile working and virtuali-zation.

Managed Data Center provides server, storage and network services for your IT-infrastructure. From analysis and planning to organization and operation, the service covers all IT infrastructure components of your data center including virtualization, automa-tion and integration. A fair and transparent invoicing model is applied on either a performance or “pay-as-you-go” basis.Managed Server ensures that your server infrastruc-ture runs perfectly without any downtime. Proactive services such as Auto Immune Systems®, support automated fault detection and elimination, while simultaneously immunizing IT operations so your business processes, whether goods management or invoicing systems, never fail. Managed Maintenance takes care about the fulfill-ment of all Service Level Agreements in a heteroge-neous IT Infrastructure covering maintenance servi-ces. Thereby Fujitsu acts as a single point of contact for all kind of maintenance relevant service request as well as IMAC/D services. Furthermore Managed Maintenance harmonizes SLAs and generates cost advantages for our customers by using innovative service concepts. If wanted we consolidates all the existing IT service contracts into one major contract for the entire IT infrastructure. In this case Fujitsu takes over the full maintenance service responsibility as a prime contractor.

Server Integration ServicesFujitsu offers efficient consultation packages for exis-ting infrastructure environments at a fixed price. This has been made possible by systematically analyzing a large number of successfully implemented con-sultation projects. The solution methods used have been standardized and combined with the experience of the comprehensive product and solution skills provided by the Fujitsu group. The result: first-class consultation and analysis packages quickly provide customers with specific information and suggested improvements for the infrastructure involved.

g Installation of hardware and corresponding software (operating system with necessary updates and patches)

g Setting-up of physical connectionsg Configuration in accordance with defined parametersg Test and handover

Base Installation

g Planning of the management environmentg Installation of ServerView Operations Managerg Setup of add-on components and basic configurationg Test, handover and documentation

Integration of base management functionalities

g Installation of operating system, all necessary patches and

ServerView Virtual I/O Managerg Configuration and creation of server profilesg Failover tests for the profiles, and handover

Integration of I/O virtualization

g Installation of the “managed nodes” with operating system and

necessary patches, and prepare for cloningg Configure ServerView RCVE incl. spare server and failover testsg Demonstration of system functionality and handover

Integration of advanced management features & HA

g Planning and verification of the installationg Installation of all necessary software components (Hypervisor,

Management server)g Test, handover and documentation

Hypervisor Integration


CASE STUDY

Belgian telematics service provider relies on one-stop shop for products, solutions, operation and support.

THE PROJECTThe Belgian telematics service provider Digipolis was looking for a suitable partner to modernize its entire service and storage infrastructure. Fourteen PRIMERGY BX900 blade servers running Microsoft Windows Server, a virtualization layer designed using VMwa-re software, and a storage infrastructure equipped with EMC systems fulfilled the requested specifications and are now the bedrock of Digipolis’ new efficiency. The first, hardware-ori-ented stage – comprising delivery, installation, integration and migration – was soon followed by a second: Digipolis delegated responsibility for operating and supporting the new data center environment to Fujitsu as well. Its philosophy – everything from a single source – perfectly reflects Fujitsu’s strategic orientati-on as an end-to-end provider of infrastructure products and solutions plus extensive Managed Services for operation and support. The range of on-site and remote services extends from configuration, error and problem management to change and release management and all the way to controlling and ensuring availabilities, capacities and performance. First- and second-level administration and support are provided, while clearly defined service levels control service delivery.

The telematics service provider Digipolis supplies the two Belgian cities of Antwerp and Ghent with information and communications technology resources and support for the services these cities offer their citizens.

THE CUSTOMER

g Hardware: 14 x PRIMERGY BX900 with a total of 223 server blades and 4 x EMC Centera and 6 x CLARiiON CX4 storage systems

g Software and tools: VMware, Symantec, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), BMC Service Desk Express (SDE), BMC SDE Self-Service Portal

g Managed Services: Support for all areas of service managementwith a mix of on-site and remote services

THE SOLUTION

g Strengthen core competencies: Freeing up resources to focus oncore strategic tasks and innovation

g Increase cost-effectiveness: Maximizing savings potential byleveraging the synergies offered by a service provider, and cutting operating costs

g Continually improve quality and reliability

THE CHALLENGES

DIGIPOLIS DELEGATES COMPLETE IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT TO FUJITSU

THE SUCCESSESDigipolis has boosted its competitiveness thanks to the new system architecture. The IT structures have been streamlined, efficiency increased and costs cut thanks to consolidation and virtualization. A single platform and service partner reduce the amount of time and effort involved in coordination and admi-nistration. Each service process is assigned key performance indicators and thus is transparent and measurable. The charges paid for the services are based on fixed price scales. As a result, they are more transparent and enhance planning security. And last but not least, the Managed Services provided by Fujitsu free up resources, enabling Digipolis to adapt quickly and flexibly to the new requirements of its customers.

SUMMARY


Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX blade servers are ideal for building your next-generation IT infrastructure with more efficiency, agility and business continuity. You can use it to build business solutions that are more affordable, take less time to maintain, use less power and are ready to grow with your individual needs. Our blade server systems have been specifically developed to enable efficient operation. A lot of computing power in a very small space, maximum memory configuration and high I/O bandwidth means that all types of workloads – on both physical and virtual servers – can be centralized. The PRIMERGY BX900 also boasts energy efficiency significant-ly. That dramatically reduces power consumption. Active power management and the highly developed CoolSafe™ cooling methodology additionally improve the use of energy at data centers.

The PRIMERGY ServerView® Suite improves end-user productivity with intelligent system management solutions and is the key to higher IT value and reduced operating costs. The design of our blade systems are especially optimized for use in virtualized environments supporting all major hypervisor vendors. On top, ServerView® Resource Orchestrator in combination with ServerView® Resource Coordinator VE and ServerView® Virtual I/O Manager offer the dynamic resource management capabilities enabling IT organizations to deliver IT infrastructure resources faster while at the same time lowering the barriers for users to gain access to IT resources.

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