Appetite for knowledge? Join our Lunch&Learn sessions! On the 6th of November the subject will be "Hardware Server Virtualization with Hitachi BladeSymphony".
Hitachi has announced BladeSymphony with HVM, a blade server to provide users with enterprise-class data center functionality. The product includes HVM, an embedded virtualization feature. The feature, which builds virtualization into a blade server's hardware, provides customers an alternative to third-party software solutions and thus can enable them to decrease overhead costs while increasing manageability and performance.
BladeSymphony with HVM also includes blade symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) interconnect technology that is designed to improve scalability by enabling users to configure multiple blades, so that they work as a single system.
"BladeSymphony with Virtage is a leap ahead in the virtualization game," said Vernon Turner, group vice president and general manager of Enterprise Computing at IDC. "This technology will further fuel the significant growth of the blade market, as IDC has projected. Embedded virtualization, coupled with BladeSymphony's mix-and-match capabilities that allow users to work with Intel Xeon processor- and Itanium processor-powered blades in the same chassis, will give end users an expanded variety of options as they design their enterprise-class environment."
BladeSymphony with HVM is a 10U chassis, supporting hot-swappable blades capable of running both Windows and Linux. Built on standards-based multi-core Intel processors with Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT), the product allows users to combine, scale, and virtualize BladeSymphony blades based on Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 9000 Series processors.
BladeSymphony with HVM is also designed with flexibility and integration in mind. BladeSymphony with HVM can also support BladeSymphony blades based on Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors within the same chassis. Additionally, BladeSymphony with HVM is available in eight-processor (16-way) SMP configurations. According to Hitachi, this mix of flexibility, integration and scalability makes BladeSymphony with HVM effective for any enterprise, and particularly for customers running large custom applications and companies actively acquiring other organizations or running other high-growth applications.
Aside from its virtualization technology, BladeSymphony also addresses scalability issues. The product's backplane utilizes an SMP architecture to enable multiple blades to interconnect and act as a single system in one chassis. Offered in two-processor (four-way) Itanium processor blades, BladeSymphony can be scaled up and out to offer up to two eight-processor (16-way) servers in a single chassis, thus reducing footprint and power consumption while increasing utilization.
"Powered by dual-core Intel Itanium 2 processors, the Hitachi Blade Symphony with Virtage provides unprecedented IT freedom and excels in virtualization, flexibility and performance," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president, Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. "This innovative blade platform with virtualization support enables CIOs to move away from aging and expensive legacy systems and instead direct those funds toward standard-based computing and business innovation."
Targetaudience for this L&L are people active in consultancy, pre-sales and sales. The session is free of charge. Seats are limited so please register by sending an e-mail to ismid@greendatasystems.com.
