Server Blade - Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series System Overview Manual

Server Blade

This section describes server blades.
Overview
The CB 500 server blade offers the following key features:
• High-performance Intel multi-core processor with QPI technology for
high-throughput and low-latency.
• High reliability functions through the processor, memory and HDD
reliability/availability/maintainability features, such as memory scrubbing
(self-error-correcting), memory mirroring function (memory duplication),
and integrated Hardware RAID 1.
• High density, high performance optimized for enterprise data center,
virtualization, high-speed computation, and flexible IO capability.
A server blade contains processors, memory, HDDs, and other components,
and is available in either of two form factors: the "half-wide" blade; "full-
wide" blade. There are also two types of half-wide blades, the "storage
expansion" blade for additional HDDs and the "PCI expansion" blade for
additional PCI Express cards.
For detailed specifications, see
Half-wide blade CB 520A A1, CB 520H
Storage expansion blade
PCI expansion blade
Full-wide blade CB 540A A1/B1
Table 1-6 Function and Model Names
Form factor
A1/B1/B2
CB 520H B3
CB 520X B1/B2
Figure 1-13 Half-wide Blade
System Overview
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series System Overview Guide
System Unit Specifications on page
Number of
processors
2
0
0
4
2
2-2.
Size (W x D x H: mm)
215.4 x 492.7 x 51.1
215.4 x 500.6 x 51.1
435.3 x 492.7 x 55.5
435.3 x 492.7 x 55.5
435.3 x 492.7 x 55.5
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