The "BladeSymphony" Integrated Service Platform is an integrated product comprised of blade servers, network equipment, and storage equipment. This product provides an optimal system for your company through a flexible combination of these hardware devices.
Furthermore, you can use the software product package called "BladeSymphony Manage Suite" for operation and management of BladeSymphony to integrate and automate your system operation and management.

Main features of BladeSymphony
| Easy operation and management |
Enables central control and management for: 1) operation and management of system configurations such as servers, storage equipment, and network equipment, and 2) I/O resource allocation. |
| Support for your required performance |
The SMP function support between server modules facilitates both scale-out and scale-up implementation of servers. |
| High availability |
High-reliability and high-availability of hardware are realized by Hitachi's original technologies, which were refined over many years of mainframe development.
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Description of demonstrations
(1) N+1 cold standby function

| Contents of demonstration |
Introduces the N+1 cold standby function for switching an active server to standby server during a trouble occurrence to minimize the effect on business operations; also demonstrates the server switching operation using actual hardware.
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| Required time |
Approximately 30 minutes |
(2) Deployment function
| Contents of demonstration |
Introduces the JP1/ServerConductor/Deployment Manager, a software equipped with the OS patch application function and batch distribution function for HDD image; also demonstrates the backup data retrieval operation using actual hardware.
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| Required time |
Approximately 30 minutes |
(3) Hitachi server virtualization function (Virtage)
| Contents of demonstration |
Introduces Hitachi's original server virtualization function (Virtage) for effective use of resources; also demonstrates the dynamic resource allocation operation and operation for dynamic load change, using actual hardware.
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| Required time |
Approximately 20 minutes |
(4) VMware on BladeSymphony
| Contents of demonstration |
Introduces VMware products supported by Hitachi, and also demonstrates how to prolong the life of legacy systems by using virtualization technology, flexible resource allocation, and operation and management of virtual machines.
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| Required time |
Approximately 30 minutes |