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Bull DPS 7000/XTA Series
The Bull DPS 7000 Extended Twin Architecture (XTA) Series provides GCOS 7
customers with a cost-effective and modern platform which offers customized configurations
for GCOS 7 and OPEN based services at optimized cost.
Bull DPS 7000/XTA systems enable to run GCOS 7 customer applications (existing
and new: native programs and interoperability solutions) unchanged on " mainframe
class " platforms based on Intel® architecture running
Windows (Windows 2003 and subsequent versions).
Bull DPS 7000/XTA servers are intended for customers
who need replacement of existing low and mid-range Bull DPS 7000
systems and wish to modernise their information processing
environment in order to take advantage of new technologies and standards, while
capitalising on their existing investments.
The GCOS 7 offer comprises two families of servers:
- Bull DPS 7000/XTAx5 servers
- Bull NovaScale 7000 servers
Bull DPS 7000/XTAx5 Product Overview
The DPS 7000/XTAx5 models are fully upgradeable on-site.
All models are implemented with Intel® Xeon™
MP
Processors.
Windows 2003 I/O engine enables outstanding I/O throughput and connection
of market standard peripherals (GCOS 7 certified) in a performant way by
utilizing standard drivers and PCI controllers.
The Bull DPS 7000/XTA I/O subsystem is based on a powerful PCI bus architecture
that enables concurrency of data transfers between different high speed I/O channels.
All Bull DPS 7000/XTA models support standard
state-of-the-art peripherals such as RAID disks, Robotised Cartridge Tape
Libraries, non-impact printers and Telecommunication processors supporting LAN and WAN
networks.
The following new sales peripheral and communication offer is available for XTA
Series:
- FDA 1400, DMX800, CX300/500/700 disk subsystems, PowerSave 320
FC, SDLT 320 Rack Mounted, STK L180 and L700 libraries with
STK 9840C drives, Media Server Virtuo, OpenSave solutions, MainWay
2600LE.
In order to protect customers’ investment, recent DPS 7000 peripheral
and communication subsystems may be reconnected to XTA Series.
The Bull DPS 7000/XTA systems are supported by GCOS 7 XTA release,
whose first version is V10.
Extended Twin Architecture
The Bull DPS 7000/XTA Series is composed of a hardware platform based on a
standard 32-bit Intel® architecture plus a set of software and firmware components, the V7000
Interior Decor, which allows to execute GCOS 7 environment along with Windows
2003
environment. Each of these environments are executed by dedicated processors.
Up to 4 processors (1 for GCOS 7 and
from 1 up to 3 for Windows) are supported.
Thanks to V7000 Interior Decor implementation on standard Intel architecture,
the Bull DPS 7000 platform can adapt easily and quickly to future technological
evolutions.
Thanks to the availability of Windows in the open side of the DPS 7000/XTA,
Bull has introduced new functions there.
This is where GCOS 7 customers can put in this open side, databases such as
Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, accessible from GCOS 7 applications by the
CMA (client mode access) interface. Or, they can place in this open side,
products such as Gweb (access to GCOS from a navigator) or TNVIP (access to GCOS
from a terminal emulator).
Multi-partition, multi-environment
In order to enable secure coexistence of customer’s GCOS 7 and Open
applications on a single physical server, Bull proposes on Diane, in option, a virtualisation
software, VMwareTM GSX ServerTM. This makes it
possible to define logical partitions in which are defined virtual
machines. Each partition has its own operating environment (Windows or Linux).
An incident in a partition does not disturb the other partitions, or the
production under GCOS 7.
User benefits
Protection of investments (peripherals, enterprise data,
applications and skills)
Long term guarantee for GCOS 7 offer
Cost-effective and evolutionary GCOS 7 offer
Flexible and seamless evolution paths enabling evolution at
the pace best suited to customers' needs
Reduced total cost of ownership
Sharable peripherals
Optimized interoperability solutions
Secure coexistence of GCOS 7 and Open
applications on a Bull DPS 7000/XTA system
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