Measures reported by HBladeChassisTest

The Hitachi Compute Blade 500 consists of a robust, fully-redundant 6U chassis i.e. 19-inch rack compatible. The chassis can house up to eight multi-core 2-socket processor half-wide blades or four multi-core 4-socket processor full-wide blades. The chassis is also provided with hot-swappable management modules, switch modules, power supply modules and fan modules. These modules provide continuous management, network connectivity, power supply and cooling services to the blades. The built-in logical partitioning feature of the Hitachi Compute Blade 500 enables combining multiple virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V and Red Hat KVM, in the chassis. These virtual platforms share the physical resources in the chassis. Thus, availability and proper functioning of the chassis is critical to the uninterrupted operations of the Hitachi Compute Blade 500. Irrecoverable errors, power failures, unstable voltage fluctuations or sudden temperature surge experienced by the chassis can halt the Hitachi Compute Blade 500 operations for hours. This in turn slows down or completely suspends the delivery of the dependent business services and thus degrading performance of the Hitachi Compute Blade 500. This is why, it is very important for administrators to detect the anomalies of the chassis before it occurs and do whatever it takes to avert the issues. The HBladeChassisTest test aids the administrators in this exercise!

This test reports current power status, temperature and maintenance mode of the chassis and helps the administrators to immediately initiate measures to correct the abnormalities. This test also proactively alerts the administrators to irregularities in power and voltage of the chassis.