Fujitsu Siemens Primergy S30

Fujitsu Siemens Primergy S30 ... e-commerce, as well as conventional ERP applications, new demand for rapid and scalable storage space for server systems is being generated almost daily. Added to this is the trend toward Rack-based server farms, which consolidate applications that were previously distributed at companies and branches on a few powerful Compute Node servers. This necessitates compact and easy-to-administer storage subsystems like the Primergy S30, because stored information is the most important business foundation for any company. In addition to performance and storage capacity, data availability and thus the reliability and easy serviceability of storage systems are also of especial importance. Primergy S30 storage subsystems have been developed with these requirements in mind. A wide range of facilities aimed at ensuring permanent availability and a high degree of reliability have been implemented in the Primergy S30. Examples are redundant power supply units and fans, which can be replaced simply online, and up to 14 hard disks in RAID groups.

Providing data centrally in addition to on the servers which process the information offers many advantages. For example, as shared storage subsystem (remote, redundant) in corresponding cluster configurations, where several servers at the same time access the data. Whereas an internal disk storage unit, depending on the server model, soon reaches the limits of its expandability, the Primergy S30, as an external storage subsystem, can grow gradually along with business circumstances.