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BladeSymphony 1000 (Figure 1) is the first blade system designed specifically for enterprise-class,
mission-critical workloads. It is a 10 rack unit (RU) system that combines Hitachi’s Virtage embedded
virtualization technology, a choice of Intel Dual-Socket, Multi-Core Xeon and/or Intel Dual-Core Itanium
Server Blades (running Windows or Linux), centralized management capabilities, high-performance
I/O, and sophisticated reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features.
Figure 1. BladeSymphony 1000 front view
Enterprise-Class Capabilities
With BladeSymphony 1000, it is now possible for organizations to run mission-critical applications and
consolidate systems and workloads with confidence — at the edge, the application tier, the database
tier, or all three. BladeSymphony 1000 allows companies to run any type of workload with enterprise-
class performance, reliability, manageability, scalability, and flexibility. For example:
• BladeSymphony 1000 can be deployed at the edge tier — similar to dual-socket blade and rack
server offerings from Dell, HP, IBM, and others — but with far greater reliability and scalability than
competitive systems.
• BladeSymphony 1000 can be deployed at the application tier — similar to quad-socket blade server
offerings from HP and IBM, but with greater reliability and scalability.
• BladeSymphony 1000 ideal for the database tier — similar to the IBM p-Series or HP rack-mount
servers, but with a mainframe-class virtualization solution.
Designed with to be the first true enterprise-class blade server, the BladeSymphony 1000 provides
outstanding levels of performance, scalability, reliability, and configuration flexibility.
• Performance — BladeSymphony 1000 supports both Intel Dual-Core Itanium and Dual-Core or
Quad-Core Xeon processors in the same chassis. Utilizing Intel Itanium processors, it delivers 64-bit
processing and large memory capacity (up to 256 GB) in an SMP configuration, as well as single
Intel Xeon blade configurations, allowing organizations to optimize for 64-bit or 32-bit workloads and
run all applications at extremely high performance. BladeSymphony 1000 also delivers large I/O
capacity for high throughput.
• Scalability — BladeSymphony 1000 is capable of scaling out to eight Intel Dual-Core Itanium
processor-based server blades in the same chassis, or scaling up to two 16 core SMP servers with
Intel Dual-Core Itanium processor-based server blades.