Bull NovaScale® 2040 blade server is proposed with NovaScale Master and SafeKit, which are innovative software products designed and developed by Bull. NovaScale Master simplifies and accelerates management operations, in particular fast deployment of applications on blades. SafeKit reinforces the availability of applications and brings a high level of performance while ensuring the fail-over of applications as well as the load-balancing between several blades.

Bull NovaScale® 2040 blade servers provides outstanding performance, modularity, scalability and maintenance levels. It has been designed to fulfil customers highest expectations, requiring fast and secure deployments of thousands of replicated network applications, such as those of Internet Service Providers and telecommunications operators. Moreover, the redundancy of its key components and the software offer developed by Bull make the NovaScale 2040 a very robust server that is fully suited to support enterprises' critical applications.

Bull NovaScale® Blade servers support Intel® Xeon MP processors. They are fully modular and based on standard building blocks offering an exceptional price/performance ratio, as all servers of the Bull NovaScale® family.

Deployment optimisation: The NovaScale® Blade servers allow the sharing of resources between multiple blades, thus simplifying deployment operations and optimising costs.

Improved serviceability: All critical components have redundancy options and tool-less hot-plug / hot-swap capability which allows to swap out failed components within a minute by a non-specialist within the Data Centre. As a consequence, repair time is optimised and support simplified.

Seamless management: NovaScale® Master is a powerful and pro-active management platform to monitor and simplify blade deployment. This management platform also provides the server management of the entire NovaScale® family and can be easily integrated within existing enterprise management platforms.

Flexibility: The NovaScale® Blade servers are easily adaptable to a variety of application requirements. The blade server chassis includes several fibre optic channels for storage and communications connections.

High availability: Overall redundancy of all of the critical components ensures no single point of failure.

Bull NovaScale® 2040 Blade Server characteristics

The NovaScale® Blade 2040 Server includes a high density chassis (7U), holding up to 7 x 4-way blades, or 14 x 2-way blades (or a combination of 2- and 4-way blades). It is equipped with Intel® Xeon˙ MP processors with a frequency of up to 3 GHZ, 4MB L2 cache running at 400 MHz FSB, and a management module.