Fujitsu Best Practice Compendium
Fujitsu Best Practice Compendium
Fujitsu Best Practice Compendium
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Blade Servers Stadtwerke München<br />
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“With PRIMERGY BX900 plus ServerView VIOM we have the possibility to remove a defective<br />
Blade and replace it with by a new one without configuring any further settings.<br />
And for us that was essential. We have been able to reduce our administrative<br />
effort and avoid interrupting operations.”<br />
Efficient and compact Blade Servers<br />
The increasing digitalization of work processes within the energy<br />
industry places ever greater demands on the IT infrastructure.<br />
That is why SWM occupies a 400-strong workforce in its Department<br />
of Information and Process Technology with a team 40<br />
computer specialists working in the server section under the lead<br />
of Pascal Fuckerieder. He justifies the investment in <strong>Fujitsu</strong><br />
PRIMERGY BX900 Blade Servers as follows: “One of the decisive<br />
factors was the unbeatable efficiency of the systems. The Blade<br />
Server PSU’s have an extremely high efficiency ratio and, in combination<br />
with low-voltage processors and flash memories instead<br />
of rotating hard drives, we are able to achieve quite impressive<br />
energy savings.” The two data centers are both equipped with<br />
one PRIMERGY BX900 system with 18 BX922 Server Blades each.<br />
“Thanks to the notable efficiency and extremely high performance<br />
density of the systems, the server capacity expansions did<br />
not require any modification works on the air conditioning systems<br />
of our data centers,” says Pascal Fuckerieder, who is enthusiastic<br />
about the ultra compact architecture of the PRIMERGY BX900 Blade<br />
Servers: “It is amazing just how much performance is compressed in<br />
such a small cube. We are talking about 10U here – and that is<br />
lower than a normal desk.”<br />
Slim administration with ServerView VIOM<br />
The most remarkable feature of SWM’s new IT environment is, however,<br />
that is has been split into two data centers. However, what is<br />
needed to maximize the resulting benefits is an intelligent manageability<br />
solution. SWM relies on an enhanced version of <strong>Fujitsu</strong><br />
ServerView Suite, namely the Virtual I/O Manager (VIOM). This software<br />
virtualizes the specific I/O parameters of a server and makes<br />
them available in physically independent server profiles. That<br />
spares Fuckerieder‘s team numerous manual steps and time-con-<br />
<strong>Fujitsu</strong> <strong>Best</strong> <strong>Practice</strong> <strong>Compendium</strong>
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