Hitachi Compute Blade 520H B2 (with CNA)

With the most recent Intel Xeon E5 and E7 family CPUs, the Hitachi Compute Blade 520H B2 offers improved processing power and performance, exceptional scalability and configuration flexibility. It provides a selection of integrated switched-fabric networking choices and expands the advantages of Hitachi logical partitioning to additional areas of the enterprise data centre. Up to two CPUs can fit into each standard-width blade, and up to four can fit into each double-width edge in versions with standard and double-width blades. The standard CB520H blade has 24 slots for high-speed, DDR4-registered ECC memory DIMMs and is equipped with the E5-2600 processor. When 32GB DIMM modules are utilised, it supports hardware RAID on up to two hot-pluggable, front-side accessible, serial-attached SCSI (SAS), solid-state disc (SSD) drives, and up to 768GB of shared memory. Each double-width CB540A blade has 48 DIMM slots and four E5-4600 processors. Either of the two available extension blades can be used to increase the capabilities of the CB520H blade. These blades can be paired with a computing blade to increase the blade's capacity for storage or I/O expansion. Thanks to these expansion blade types, a CB 500 system can handle PCIe-based flash for application acceleration and graphics processing units (GPUs) for virtual desktop deployments.