Fujitsu Siemens Computers' new PRIMERGY BX600 blade servers deliver increased data center efficiency

The new server ideally meets the requirements of enterprise data center, Internet and application service providers.

The extensive connection options featured in PRIMERGY BX600 servers allow them to be used as mid-tier application servers. The easy-to-administer servers feature high packing density, fail safety features and redundant components. The latest-generation Intel® Xeon™ processor helps deliver improved output, while ensuring future-proof operation, making the blade servers highly flexible, dynamically scalable, service-friendly, reliable and economical.

"The new PRIMERGY BX600 blade servers are designed primarily for mid-tier application areas, and are thus suitable as a platform for virtually all data center applications. They are ideal both as high-performance application servers or as small to mid-sized database servers due to their large RAM configuration, many and varied communication options with Gigabit Ethernet for LAN connections, 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel for connecting storage systems, and SCSI interfaces for backup devices," said Colin Britto, Sales Manager, Large Enterprises, Gulf Region, Fujitsu Siemens Computers.

In addition to classic mid-tier applications like Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes, target scenarios focus on corporate applications including FlexFrameTM for mySAPTM Business Suite, traditional SAP scenarios, Siebel, Baan, I2, or similar. Because the required databases, such as Oracle 9iRAC or (especially) the new Oracle 10g version, increasingly support the scale-out approach, the PRIMERGY BX600 now offers the appropriate and highly scalable platform. All other components of the PRIMERGY BX600, such as its integrated Ethernet switches, are designed for high performance and throughput.

The PRIMERGY BX300, the smaller and more compact sibling in the Fujitsu Siemens Computers blade server family, is used primarily in front-end operations as a highly scalable web or terminal server or as an infrastructure component.

The PRIMERGY BX600 blade server chassis is a highly scalable system for rack use with seven HU (height units) and accommodates up to 10 compact server blades with two processors each. One chassis has room for four hot-pluggable redundant power supply units and two hot-pluggable fan units, extremely reliable with two redundant fans each.

At a later stage, 4-processor blades (quad blades), based on Intel Xeon MP processors, will also be available for the PRIMERGY BX600. The blade server chassis can manage up to five of these quad blades. Mixed operation of dual and quad blades is also possible, further extending the number of possible uses for the system.