INTRODUCTION

HDS Compute Portfolio

Hitachi CB 2000 and VSP Management

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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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 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
COMPUTING
Dedicated, partitioned
resources
(High reliability, scalability,
and failure isolation)
VIRTUALIZATION
AND CLOUD
Virtualization
(Resource sharing,
transaction performance,
high-I/O bandwidth)
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CB 2000
High scalability,
reliability and
efficiency
 Up to 8-socket scalability using
symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
 I/O scalability for mission- critical
systems
 Hot-swappable components
CB 500
 Large memory capacity
 High-I/O bandwidth and port
sharing
 Flexible virtualization
environments
 Logical partitioning manager
preinstalled
Functionality and performance
for physical and virtual server
consolidation and cloud
infrastructure
 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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