Operating System And Virtualization Software; Server Management Software - Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series General Description Manual

CHAPTER 1 Product Overview
1.5 Software technologies
- Console redirection
- Video direction function
- Virtual media function
Function corresponding to the remote storage function before the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
- Interface between the software in the higher level layers
- MMB firmware
MMB firmware manages entirely all models of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
Included functions are:
- System management function
- Hardware monitoring
- Power control, system initialization
- Mirror mode setup and partition configuration control
- Web-UI function for system management
- User authority management
- Time synchronization
- Scheduled power on and off operation
- Maintenance/ update function of each firmware
- Save/restore of the setup information
- Reserved SB function setup
- Firmware update while the partition is operating. (*1)
(*1) It is the time when the partition is turned off that updated firmware is applied.

1.5.2 Operating system and virtualization software

- Windows
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series supports Windows Operating systems such as Windows Server 2012.
Hyper-V2.0 is available with all of Windows OS supported by PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
- Linux
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series supports Linux operating systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series also supports KVM adopted in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server.
- VMware
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series supports VMware vSphere 5 as a virtualization platform.
To consolidate mission critical applications using VMware, PRIMEQUEST 2000 series with its high
reliability is the best matched platform.
For details on operating systems supported by PRIMEQUEST 2000 series, see

1.5.3 Server management software

The following server management software is a standard bundle in the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
- ServerView Agentless Service (SVAS)
- ServerView Suite (SVS)
- Operations management software
ServerView Agentless Service (SVAS)
The SVAS is a software component installed in the OS. It monitors the PCI Express card (*1). When an error
is detected, it is reported through MMB.
*1: Since firmware monitor SAS RAID controller cards, monitoring SAS RAID controller cards can be done
without installing SVAS.
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