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www.hitachi.com BladeSymphony 1000 Architecture White Paper 7
Figure 3. Logical components of the BladeSymphony 1000
The following chapters detail the major components of BladeSymphony 1000, as well as management
software and Virtage embedded virtualization technology.
• “Intel Itanium Server Blade” on page 8 provides details on the Intel Itanium Server Blades and how
they can be combined to create SMP systems up of to 16 cores and 256 GB of memory.
• “Intel Xeon Server Blade” on page 20 provides details on the Intel Xeon Server Blades.
• “I/O Sub System” on page 26 provides details on the PCI-X, PCIe, and Embedded Fibre Channel
Switch modules.
• “Chassis, Power, and Cooling” on page 36 provides details on the two chassis models, as well as
Power and Cooling Fan Modules.
• “Reliability and Serviceability Features” on page 39 discusses the various reliability, availability, and
serviceability features of the BladeSymphony 1000.
• “Management Software” on page 45 discuss software management features.
• “Virtage” on page 48 provides technical details on Virtage embedded virtualization technology.
8 modules
max.
Front
Rear
Server blade
HDD module
(3 HDDs max.)
Backplane
I/O module
I/O module
o
r
Switch &
Management module
Embedded FCSW
module
Server blade
Server blade
Up to
8-way
SMP
configurable
o
r
HDD module
(6 HDDs max.)
Replaced with
4-server blade
16 slots
in total
16 slots
in total
*1: The HDD module
having six HDDs
mounted occupies
the space for two
modules.