PRIMERGY BX400 S1 : Fujitsu Technology Solutions

Managing large computing and storage requirements with limited resources, budgets and space is a challenge. The Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX400 helps to solve it. It is a fully-featured blade system built from the ground up as a user-friendly and versatile IT infrastructure. Up to eight server and storage blades are all packed into a surprisingly small enclosure that is as easy to install and manage as it is to use.

Features and Benefits

Features	Benefits
The Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX400 provides an optimum combination of up to eight server or storage blades in a small enclosure that is available as 6U rack- and floorstand-version. It combines leading-edge technology, such as a fully integrated virtual storage appliance, in order to convert it into a small data center in a box.	Modular infrastructure to meet office and datacenter environments, designed to share components throughout the family making it easy to create, customize and grow.
Complementary technology to x86 server virtualization with additional benefits such as improved manageability, availability, and operational efficiency from shared cable infrastructures or virtual input/output (I/O). The PRIMERGY BX400 can be equipped with the latest blade technology and offers high levels of I/O flexibility and a bandwidth. Thanks to its highly efficient components, advanced cooling technology, and potent power management tools, the BX400 also reduces cooling and air conditioning costs.	Its smart design makes the PRIMERGY BX400 more flexible than other server solutions, offering easy scalability to protect your investments.
With ServerView you manage your servers and enclosures locally and remotely and take complete control regardless of the state of the server operating system. Additional software components help to reduce the complexity in mixed physical and virtual environments and its internal and external connections.	Simplified lifecycle management cuts server administration time by up to 60 percent, saving you even more effort and money.
Modular upgrade options for server- or storage blades provide the flexibility to integrate new technologies into existing environments. Additional server blades or components can be easily added or replaced without the re-cabling that usually requires multiple man-hours or complicated processes. Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY BX400 offering is enhanced by a comprehensive set of packaged services that support your IT team throughout the implementation process.	The consolidated design makes the PRIMERGY BX400 more affordable than traditional rack or tower servers, storage and networking solutions offering lower total operational costs.

Technical details

Characteristics	Affordable and fully-featured blade system built from the ground up to be user-friendly and versatile, saving time and costs for midsized companies.
System unit type	6 U chassis for 19-inch rack, or floorstand version
Weight	Rack: up to 98 kg / Floorstand: up to 112.5 kg
Front bays	8 half height bays for server or storage blades
Midplane	High speed midplane with 3 fabrics
Rear bays	4 x for Connection Blades, 4 x for PSU/fan modules
Management Blades	1x hot-plug management blade as standard, redundant management blades as option
Fan configuration	Up to 3 hot plug, redundant rear fan units (2 fans per unit)
Power supply configuration	Up to 4x hot-plug power supply modules (1x as standard)
Operating buttons	On/off switch, ID button
Status LEDs	Power (amber / green), System status (orange / yellow), Identification (blue)
Service display	ServerView Local Service Display for Blade (LSB)
Standard Warranty	3 years
Service Level	On-site Service
Standard Warranty note	(depending on country)
Recommended Service	7x24, Onsite Response Time: 4h - For locations outside of EMEA please contact your local Fujitsu partner.

Blades

PRIMERGY BX920 S2
	The BX920 S2 is ideal for both physical applications as well as virtualized applications using hypervisors such as VMware^® ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V™, or Citrix XenServer™. In addition, PRIMERGY BX920 S2 blades are equipped with our state-of-the-art integrated Remote Management Controller (iRMC S2), and with their wide range of processor, disk, and memory options it provides IT managers the performance and scalability they need for any data center application.
PRIMERGY BX922 S2
	The future-oriented PRIMERGY BX922 S2 Dual Socket Server Blade meets all the requirements for virtualization environments in dynamic data centers. The latest Intel^® CPU Generation with up to 6 computing cores is used as well as the Intel^® Ethernet controller which enables a considerable increase in data throughput thanks to the Hypervisor and CPU as well as the 12 main memory slots for up to 192 GB.
PRIMERGY BX924 S2
	The PRIMERGY BX924 S2 provides two Intel^® Xeon^® processors (5000 Sequence), each with up to 6 cores and 12 MB cache. Realization of consolidation requirements is granted to a great extent by hardware based virtualization support of chipset, CPU and Ethernet controller (Intel^® 82599) as well as by the up to 18 DIMM modules in the system. Various options to boot the system via iSCSI / Ethernet, SAN with Fibre Channel or even locally with SSD or USB Flash Module offer free choice.
PRIMERGY SX910 S1
	PRIMERGY SX910 S1 Storage Blades Tape can be used to archive and backup local data in the PRIMERGY BX900 S1 system units. Up to 1,500 GB may be stored on one LTO tape drive therein, matching the demands of a server blade’s disk capacities and leaving room for future, higher capacities. The Storage Blade requires one Blade slot within the PRIMERGY BX system unit.
PRIMERGY SX940 S1
	The PRIMERGY SX940 S1 Direct Attached Storage Blade Disk can be used to extend the internal storage capacity of PRIMERGY BX92x Server Blades. A maximum of four internal disk drives greatly extends the maximum amount of disk storage of a Server Blade. One Storage Blade occupies one blade slot within the PRIMERGY BX system units; it is positioned either on the left or right to an adjacent BX92x Server Blade, or between the two. The 1x 4 or 2x 2 disk drives of one SX940 S1 are driven by 1 or 2 integrated, highly functional SAS/RAID controllers with 512 Mbyte cache and BBU. Each controller provides RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6.
PRIMERGY SX960 S1
	The PRIMERGY SX960 storage blade delivers direct attached and shared storage for the PRIMERGY BX blade servers, with support for up to 10 hot-plug small form factor SAS hard disk drives or SATA hard disk or solid state drives. The midplane of the BX blade servers provides a PCI Express connection to the adjacent server blade and enables high performance storage access without any additional cables. For our PRIMERGY BX blade servers we can now also offer a fully integrated virtual storage appliance. This virtual storage solution consists of a storage control blade with an installed hypervisor plus the Data ONTAP-vTM software from NetApp and a SX960 storage blade to provide the shared storage capacity. It will be promoted under the brand PRIMERGY VSX960. VSX storage solution supports iSCSI, CIFS and NFS protocol and is based on Data ONTAP-vTM features such as SnapShot, FlexVol, SnapRestore and FilerView.
PRIMERGY SX980 S1
	The Fujitsu PRIMERGY SX980 storage blade disk is a SAS 2.0 storage solution that helps customers easily transition from direct attached to centralized storage. This storage blade is connected via midplane to a SAS connection blade (CB), holding up to 10 hot-plug SAS hard disks, accessible by any PRIMERGY BX server blade installed in the same enclosure. Each single storage drive or compound RAID array of an SX980 S1 can be assigned to a dedicated server blade.
PRIMERGY BX Ethernet Switch/IBP 1Gbit/s 36/12
	The PRIMERGY Ethernet Switch/IBP 36/12 is an integrated 1 Gb Connection Blade for use in the PRIMERGY BX400 and BX900 chassis. It can be installed in all Connection Blade bays (4x in BX400, 8x in BX900) and provides 36 downlink ports each with 1 Gb to the midplane to connect with the Server Blades. The module contains 12 uplink ports each 1 Gb; Layer 2+ functionalities are supported.
PRIMERGY BX Ethernet Switch/IBP 1Gbit/s 36/8+2
	The PRIMERGY Ethernet Switch/IBP 36/8+2 is an integrated 1 Gb Connection Blade for use in the PRIMERGY BX400 and BX900 chassis. It can be installed in each Connection Blade slot (4x in BX400, 8x in BX900) and provides 36 downlink ports each with 1 Gb to the midplane to connect with the Server Blades.
PRIMERGY BX Ethernet Switch/IBP 10Gbit/s 18/8
	The PRIMERGY Ethernet Switch/IBP 18/8 is an integrated 10 Gb Ethernet connection blade with DCB mode for use in the PRIMERGY BX400 and BX900 blade server chassis. Collaboration with Top of Rack (ToR) switches enables for operation of converging FCoE, extending usage areas comprehensively.
PRIMERGY BX Fibre Channel Switch 8 Gbit/s 18/8 (Brocade 5450)
	Blade Server and Fibre Channel SANs form an ideal infrastructure for maximizing consolidation and server virtualization benefits. By connecting blade servers and SAN switch platforms of the highest density Fujitsu and Brocade offer extraordinary performance, reliability and flexibility.
PRIMERGY BX Fibre Channel Switch 8 Gbit/s 18/8 (Brocade 5450)
	Blade Server and Fibre Channel SANs form an ideal infrastructure for maximizing consolidation and server virtualization benefits. By connecting blade servers and SAN switch platforms of the highest density Fujitsu and Brocade offer extraordinary performance, reliability and flexibility.
PRIMERGY BX Fibre Channel Switch 8 Gbit/s 18/8 (Brocade 5450)
	Blade Server and Fibre Channel SANs form an ideal infrastructure for maximizing consolidation and server virtualization benefits. By connecting blade servers and SAN switch platforms of the highest density Fujitsu and Brocade offer extraordinary performance, reliability and flexibility.
PRIMERGY BX Fibre Channel Pass Thru 8Gbit/s 18/18
	Blade Servers and Fibre Channel SANs build an ideal infrastructure for maximizing the benefits of consolidation and server virtualization. In addition to Fibre Channel switch blades Fujitsu offers a connection blade for direct transmission of sensitive data between servers and storage.
PRIMERGY BX SAS Switch 6Gbit/s 18/6
	The Fujitsu CB SAS Switch 6Gb 18/6 for the PRIMERGY BX Blade Servers is an integral part of the SAS storage solution, providing a straight forward architecture for chassis internal and external, dedicated as well as shared storage resources. The SAS Connection Blade is the connecting part between the SAS mezzanine card in the server blades and the PRIMERGY SX980 storage blade(s) in the PRIMERGY BX Blade Servers.