CHAPTER 1 Product Overview
1.1 Introduction of the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series
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Product Overview CHAPTER 1
This chapter describes the features, specifications, structural concept, system configuration, hardware
technologies, and software technologies of the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
1.1 Introduction of the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series is a server with highest level scalability, availability and operability by
considering the newest Intel architecture as its basis. In particular, PRIMEQUEST 2000 incorporates server
integration and power-saving technologies, thereby contributing to cost savings and green ICT systems.
1.1.1 PRIMEQUEST 2400E3/2800E3/2800B3 Features
The features of the PRIMEQUEST 2400E3/2800E3/2800B3 are given below.
High reliability and high-performance
- Use of Intel ® Xeon ® processor E7 v4 product family
- SMP system with up to eight sockets (PRIMEQUEST 2800E3/2800B3)
High availability
- The following are supported as the memory functions.
- Bank DDDC
- Memory Patrol Scrub
- Full Memory Mirror
- Partial Memory Mirror
- Address Range Mirror
- Memory Sparing
- Support of degradation operation function so that the system can operate by isolating the faulty CPU
cores or SBs
- Support of hardware RAID
- Support of software RAID
- Support of Reserved SB functions
Operations support function
- Agentless (ServerView Agentless Service (SVAS)) hardware monitoring function
Maintainability
- Provided with a Fault Location function to identify suspected components when hardware failure occurs
- Support for maintenance operations by MMB Web-UI Maintenance Wizard
Flexibility
PRIMEQUEST
2400E3 2800E3 2800B3
- Support of physical partitioning
(See, 5.2 Physical Partitioning (PPAR))
Supported Supported
- Support of flexible I/O function
(See, 5.10 Flexible I/O Mode)
Supported Supported
- Support of Extended Partitioning
(See, 5.3 Extended Partitioning)
Supported Supported
- Support of Extended Socket
(See, 5.4 Extended Socket)
Supported Supported