PRIMERGY | ETERNUS | PRIMEQUEST | SPARC Enterprise

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Fujitsu believes the key to quality in blade servers, used for server integration, is sustainable operational reliability. In an era that places a premium on speed and efficiency, Fujitsu constantly seeks to identify the key qualities required by each specific application and product, before undertaking the challenges necessary to achieve them. This is the core of Fujitsu Quality.

Ensuring full expandability to facilitate network design

Given the high connectivity required of today's systems, PRIMERGY BX620 S4 allows users to install up to 10 I/O ports per blade. In fact, the industry's largest I/O port capacity in a 10U chassis. The large number of ports also enables physical separation of business operations from development environments, ensuring higher system security and improved overall performance.
Server integration using PRIMERGY blade servers also eliminates the need for complex technologies such as tag-VLANs, making network design easier.
By enabling such flexible network construction, PRIMERGY simplifies the process of achieving server integration with blade servers.

A design philosophy that emphasizes reliability

Blade servers boast a high integration rate, often leading to very high concentrations of blades. While seeking to increase this integration rate, based on our extensive experience, PRIMERGY restricts the number of blades that can be mounted on a single chassis to 10. Fujitsu believes that the most important goals in server integration are maintaining adequate capacity and expandability while ensuring the reliability of any given application. For these reasons, we regard correct cooling and stable power supply as essential functions. This is reflected in our designs which achieve efficient and effective air flows as well as low power consumption.

PRIMERGY BX620 S4 places hard disks at the front of the blade. This design enables efficient air flow that heightens hard disk cooling efficiency. It also maximizes maintainability through easy component hot-plug capability. Virtually all aspects of the product incorporate ideas that maintain operational reliability.

Since vibration is a major factor in disk crashes, hard disks incorporate aluminum brackets. The high speed rotation of hard disks tends to create vibrations that occasionally cause errors. Fujitsu was quick to adopt aluminum brackets, which make it possible to incorporate measures that prevent the generation of even residual vibration-induced errors. This again reflects Fujitsu's pursuit of quality.

Automatic clip tests for quality control

Satisfying customers and meeting growing demands for quality means maintaining quality standards that continually reflect customer requirements. Fujitsu has created an automatic clip tester that simulates hardware faults at more than 1,700 verification points in each server. Fujitsu believes sustained product quality through extensive and thorough testing is essential in winning customer confidence.

Latest blades fit standard chassis* for sustained use of customer assets

Blades and chassis from different vendors are often incompatible - even across model lines from the same vendor. While ignoring model compatibility simplifies design for manufacturers, it imposes additional IT investment costs on users.
PRIMERGY is designed to optimize chassis and blade compatibility, wherever possible, even between different model lines. Fujitsu sees maintaining such backward compatibility (allowing clients to maximize their IT assets) as a crucial responsibility. Fujitsu's goal is to achieve system optimization over the entire product life cycle, not just single models.

Fujitsu uses its long and extensive experience in the production of mission critical technology as the foundation of its comprehensive array of hardware, middleware and service products. We further enhance this deep commitment by ensuring full support of these products and monitoring feedback of customer related activities and requirements. This experience is then applied to PRIMERGY in order to assure total-system reliability. While customers appraise costs in many and varied ways, at Fujitsu we target the longevity of client IT assets during developing and manufacture our products. We believe such longer term life cycle focus ensures the largest TCO reductions for our customers.

Reduced system management load from Auto SAN Boot switching to spare servers

Fujitsu is aggressively adopting virtualization technologies. We believe this is the best way to provide customers with total business reconfiguration flexibility. Virtualization allows customers to restructure without concern for existing IT infrastructure.
For example, switching over to spare servers after a failure in a SAN Boot environment could impose significant logistic problems for system managers.

Fujitsu's Systemwalker Resource Coordinator Virtual Server Edition V 13.2 can visualize the entire system, enabling automatic switching to spare PRIMERGY spare servers. This both reduces operational complexity for system managers and provides a much higher level of functionality; ensuring improved system security and availability. This feature is one more example of Fujitsu's Quality approach.

Support for early fault discovery

Symptoms often appear before a server fault occurs. Fujitsu ServerView, installed on all Fujitsu server products, monitors these early problem signs to enable preventative action before a server outage occurs. ServerView monitors over 400 items, automatically notifying the management console whenever fault symptoms are detected. Notification can also be directed to cellular phones and other remote equipment. In selected countries, the information can even be monitored at Fujitsu Support Centers, enabling fast resolution of hardware problems on a 24 hour basis.