Fujitsu Launches PRIMERGY RX500 S7 Four-Socket Server

Fujitsu launches the new PRIMERGY RX500 S7 four-socket server, optimised for large consolidation and virtualisation projects. The PRIMERGY RX500 S7 guarantees a high protection of investment by combining economic scalability and four-socket performance with the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of a dual-socket server – it can be upgraded from a dual-socket server to a quad-socket solution whenever required. The PRIMERGY RX500 S7 offers a energy-efficient, cost-saving profile, due to its components in common with the PRIMERGY dual-socket S7 generation, simplified power management, and 94 percent efficient power-supply units.

The PRIMERGY RX server family has a long history of being a versatile platform for dynamic business infrastructures. With its modular design, the new PRIMERGY RX500 S7 server is created to meet the consolidation and expansion needs of growing IT environments. By starting with a dual processor configuration, the rack server PRIMERGY RX500 S7 can scale up to four processors whenever necessary and therefore double its memory up to 1536 GB and expand the available PCIe Gen3 slots to 11 inside the same chassis - without changing the server and rack infrastructure.

“Nowadays, customers need top price/performance and flexibility in their IT infrastructure to meet impending future solution demand and to grow successfully. With the PRIMERGY RX500 S7, we are delivering a highly energy-efficient and scalable four-socket server with new cost effectiveness. We are providing our customers with an excellent, economical solution that can be expanded to meet tomorrow’s requirements,” commented Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice President, Product Development Group at Fujitsu Technology Solutions.

Upgrading the system is as easy as plugging in an additional local area network (LAN) card. The dual-socket configuration features two Intel Xeon processors from the E5 product family, 24 DIMMs and 768 GB memory. Scaling up to a four-socket server provides four Intel Xeon processors, 48 DIMMs and 1536 GB memory. This enables customers to run more and larger virtualisation machines on a single server as opposed to needing multiple dual-socket servers.

As the PRIMERGY RX500 S7 features the same power management and components of the PRIMERGY dual-socket S7 generation, which set new standards in low power consumption, the it delivers two-socket energy efficiency by operating with low-voltage memory and intelligent power management with predefined power profiles that keep power consumption down on low performance days.