New offspring in the PRIMERGY 64-bit server family

Fujitsu Siemens Computers to release new 64-bit industry standard 4-way server TX600 S2 Tower Server and RX600 S2 Rack Server

Munich, July 06, 2005 —Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT provider, introduces the new PRIMERGY 4-way tower and rack servers. By deploying Intel’s 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ processor MP technology, the new PRIMERGY servers TX600 S2 and RX600 S2 increase their performance addressing more than 4 GB of both virtual and physical memory and make them more than suitable for mission critical applications such as memory intensive databases and ERP applications. To ensure high reliability and availability the servers come with MegaRAID onboard, hot-spare memory, mirroring and memory RAID support, as well as hot-plug redundant fans and power supply modules. The new technical features of the award winning PRIMERGY servers offer more computing and higher reliability leading to greater data security without compromising business continuity.

As all other members of the PRIMERGY family, also the TX600 S2 and the RX600 S2 are dedicated to more dynamic within IT infrastructures. Consolidated servers and virtualization technologies are key for IT landscapes in order to enhance performance, to increase the deployment of resources and to achieve more flexibility. By using a virtualization system, such as VMware ESX, different servers – operating system with a dedicated application – can be run on a real server in a virtual machine, for example several parallel virtual machines under Linux and Windows on a real PRIMERGY server like the TX600 S2 or RX600 S2. Virtualization is one major cornerstone to realise the dynamic data center.

PRIMERGY TX600 S2 Tower Server
Integrated high-availability and capacity functions include the RAID on Motherboard functionality, redundant hot-plug power supply modules and fans, hot-plug PCI-X / PCI Express slots, and refined mechanisms for protecting the main memory and the split SCSI backplane. These features provide a level of availability and performance that makes the PRIMERGY TX600 S2 ideally suited for central business-critical applications. By combining high performance, exceptional internal capacity and data center-derived robustness and redundancy in an easy-to-deploy packaged solution, the TX600 S2 provides an advanced level of continuous quality of operation companies can rely on.

PRIMERGY RX600 S2 Rack Server
Applications that are traditionally running on rack servers are backend services such as databases and e-business logic which require up-scaled performance and extreme robustness to ensure smoothly running IT operations. 4-way building blocks have proven to be a very cost efficient platform for consolidating multiple smaller workloads onto fewer but more powerful servers using the latest virtualization technologies, such as Solutions from VMware and Microsoft. The new RX600 S2 combines impressive 4-way performance, exceptional internal capacity and data center-typical robustness and redundancy features into a space-optimized 4 U rack module that is designed to meet those demands.

The new PRIMERGY TX600 S2 Tower server and PRIMERGY RX600 S2 Rack server are ideal for business critical applications in medium and large enterprise, data centers and application service providers, branch offices, database solutions, high availability configurations (Cluster) and disaster tolerant infrastructures.

Both servers are available from July on. First products have already been shipped to customers for evaluation since April.

Technical highlights of the PRIMERGY TX600 S2
- Latest 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ processor MP technology with up to 3.66 GHz and 1 Mbyte second-level-cache or up to 3.33 GHz and 8 MB third-level-cache
- Two SCSI backplanes for two independent SCSI channels with 5 hard disks each
- Up to 32 (64*) Gbyte, 2-way interleaved DDR II 400 -SDRAM memory with Chipkill™, hot-spare memory, memory mirroring and memory RAID support. (*as soon as 4 GB modules are available)
- 2-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller and RAID on mother board MegaRAID (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50 for standard with 256 MB RAID cache) and optional BBU
- 7 I/O slots in total, thereof 5 hot-plug, PCI-X and PCI Express slots for powerful extension cards
- Onboard 2 x 1 Gbit Ethernet LAN
- Max. 3.000 GB internal capacity with 10 (2 x 5) hot-plug 300 Gbyte hard disks
- Space for two accessible drives (tape drives) and 0.5-inch high DVD
- Standard delivery with redundant, hot-plug fans and power supply units
- Rack variant with only 6 height units inclusive telescopic rails and easy Rack conversion of the Tower variant
- Onboard Server Management Controller as well as optional RemoteView Service Board (RSB S2) for a comprehensive and secure Server respectively Remote Management
- Standard delivery include a LC-Display for LocalView™(only for rack version) and the ServerStart and ServerView products
- Additional PRIMERGY Diagnostic LED´s in the system for main memory, CPU with fan, redundant, hot-plug fans and power supply, hot-plug PCI-X / PCI Express slots

Technical highlights of the PRIMERGY RX600 S2
- Compact 19-inch rack chassis that takes up just 4 height units
- Latest 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ processor MP technology with up to 3.66 GHz and 1 Mbyte second-level-cache or up to 3.33 GHz and 8 MB third-level-cache
- Two SCSI backplanes for two independent SCSI channels with 2 + 3 hard disks
- Up to 32 (64*) Gbyte, 2-way interleaved DDR II 400-SDRAM memory with Chipkill™, hot-spare memory, memory mirroring and memory RAID support (*as soon as 4 GB modules are available)
- 2-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller and RAID on mother board MegaRAID (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50 for standard with 256 MB RAID cache) and optional BBU
- 7 I/O slots in total, thereof 5 hot-plug, PCI-X and PCI Express slots for powerful extension cards
- Onboard 2 x 1 Gbit Ethernet LAN
- Max. 1.500 GB internal capacity with 5 (2 + 3) hot-plug 300 Gbyte hard disks
- Space for one accessible drive (tape drive) and 0.5-inch high DVD
- Standard delivery with redundant, hot-plug fans and power supply units
- Onboard Server Management Controller as well as optional RemoteView Service Board (RSB S2) for a comprehensive and secure Server respectively Remote Management
- Standard delivery include a LC-Display for LocalView™ and the ServerStart and ServerView products
- Additional PRIMERGY Diagnostic LED´s in the system for main memory, CPU with fan, redundant, hot-plug fans and power supply, hot-plug PCI-X/PCI Express slots

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About Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider with a responsible strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and Business Critical Computing products, services and solutions. With a portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from handhelds through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a strong presence in all key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Leveraging the strengths, innovation and global reach of our joint shareholders, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, we make sure we meet the needs of customers: large corporations, small and medium enterprises and private users.

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