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BladeSymphony

What is BladeSymphony?

BladeSymphony blade servers inherit its core design from our line of highly reliable mainframe platforms bound together by a robust management software solution. BladeSymphony management solutions simplify the administration and management of BladeSymphony servers in enterprise datacenters. BladeSymphony 1000 blade systems also supports Multi-Blade Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) interconnect technology for scalable performance. Transaction recovery is supported with our N+M standby feature improving system reliability and availability. High performance and high availability features allow BladeSymphony to be utilized in small departmental office environments to large back-end enterprise datacenters.

Server Lineup

BladeSymphony 2000

BS2000

The BladeSymphony 2000 blade server is a 10U-high server chassis supporting up to 8 server blades.

  • SMP support up to a maximum of 8 cores with Xeon blades
  • Maximum Memory: 144GB/blade
  • 2 Mezzanine cards(PCI Express 2.0 x8) on each blades
  • AC input power: 200-240VAC, N+1 and fully redundant power supplies
  • 16 I/O expansion card (PCI Express 2.0 x8) slots in chassis

    • BladeSymphony 1000

    BS1000

    The BladeSymphony 1000 blade server is a 10U-high server chassis supporting up to 8 server blades. It is a scalable and flexible server platform capable of supporting both Xeon and IPF server blades:

  • Blade SMP interconnect (Max 16 cores) with IPF blades
  • SMP support up to a maximum of 8 cores with Xeon blades
  • AC input power: 200-240VAC, N+1 and fully redundant power supplies
  • I/O expansion card (PCI-x / PCI-e)

    • BladeSymphony 320

    BS320

    The BladeSymphony 320 blade server is a 6U-high server chassis supporting up to10 server blades achieving one of the industry’s highest level of server density and space-savings.

  • Up to 10 two-socket, dual-core or quad-core servers in a single 6U chassis; up to 560 cores in a 42U rack
  • 60% space savings compared to rack-mount
  • 110-volt & 220-volt power option, N+1 and fully redundant power supplies

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