Fujitsu
Cluster In a Box
High-availability Application Services built upon
Microsoft Windows® Server 2012
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Benefits
Cluster In a Box (CIB)
One box for your solution
 Multiple server nodes, shared storage and fully
redundant components to avoid single points of
failure
 Pre-packaged and pre-connected into a single box
 Tailor-made for mid-market organizations and
branch offices with limited resources, budgets and
space
 Continuous availability at affordable costs to protect
important data and business critical services
 Lower costs, higher performance and greater
productivity, enabled by servers that scale easily to
your requirements
Fail-safe infrastructure based on PRIMERGY® Cloud eXtension servers
with Windows Server 2012 providing easy scalability and investment protection.
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Key Pillars
Windows® Server 2012
 Innovative new capabilities that enable
building dynamic storage and availability
solutions in which workloads, networks, and
storage become more flexible, efficient, and
available than ever before
PRIMERGY ® CX420/CX272
 Smart clustering by packaging two server
nodes and up to 12 shared storage drives
into a consolidated 2U rack enclosure
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Windows® Server 2012
Newest Windows Server offering is loaded with new features
 Hyper-V Network Virtualization
 Single Root I/O Virtualization (SRIOV)
 Hyper-V Replication
 SMB 3.0
 Storage Spaces
Benefits are easy to manage network integration, easy DR setup, cost effective
reliable storage, and live migration of data files without SAN storage
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PRIMERGY CX420 and CX272
Multi-node server chassis containing two server nodes, two SAS
expanders, one disk drive tray with 12 x 3.5” SAS HDD
 Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX420 with:
― CX272 Cluster Node 1
― CX272 Cluster Node 2
― 2x SAS Extenders
 Intrinsic redundancy is standard
― 2x 1400 Watt PSU with 92% efficiency
(80Plus Gold), redundant, hot-plug
― 4x 80mm fan units, non-hot-plug
― 12x 3.5” hot-plug SAS HDD with RAID 1 mirroring
Benefits are compact space (50-percent ), all components are optimized to each
other, lowered complexity, and seamless integration
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PRIMERGY CX420 S1 vs. Rack Server
Similar clustered configurations result in different prices, energy
consumption, and required rack space.
 2x PRIMERGY RX200 S7
 1x ETERNUS® DX60 S2 with
12x HDD SAS 2.5“ 900 GB
 PRIMERGY CX420 S1 with
 2x CX272 S1
 12x HDD SAS 2.5“ 900 GB
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CIB: Operational Overview
Simple yet powerful blending of integrated hardware and software
 Shared storage
― Dual port SAS Infrastructure
 Storage controller
Failover in a few seconds
free I/O
slot
x8 PCIe
― Non RAID SAS HBA
• PSAS CP200i (Lynx2 HBA)
• RAID 1 Mirroring by
Windows 2012 Storage
Spaces
2x GbE
onboard
free I/O
slot
2U CX420 S1
Server
node A
CPU
CPU
Server node B
CPU CPU
Boot drive(s)
x8 PCIe
Storage
Controller
SAS
Expander
 Embedded Heartbeat LAN
 Failover in a only a few
seconds
x8 PCIe
x4 SAS through midplane
Storage
Controller
x4 SAS through midplane
x4 SAS
2x GbE
x8 PCIe onboard
A ports
0 1
…n
x4 SAS
B ports
SAS
Expander
Heartbeat (GbE) via midplane
A
…
External JBOD
(ETERNUS JX40 dual ported)
ports
B ports
B ports
SAS
SAS
0
1
n
A ports
Expander
Expander
 CIB can integrate external
SAS storage (JX40) for
additional spindle counts
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CIB: Fast-track to Continuous Operation
Fujitsu Cluster In a Box
Based on PRIMERGY CX
 Business continuity with
nearly no downtime
 Scale-out smartly with a
consolidated 2U rack
server/storage enclosure
 Easy to buy
 Ready-to-work a few
minutes after receipt
 No implementation risk
 Leverage the benefits of
virtualization
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Questions and Answers
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