Blade Servers

Prepare a Self-Installing Drive for Blade Servers (21 Mar 2008)
Build a bootable, self-installing hard disk drive for an IBM BladeCenter HS2 blade server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 1 following these nine easy steps. When the system boots from this drive for the first time, it automatically ...

Super Micro continues to innovate the blade platform
“For the ultimate in energy efficiency (93 per cent*) and performance-per-watt (0.27 GFlops/watt*), Supermicro is introducing the new SBI-7425 C blade server optimized for its new 14-blade 7U DatacenterBlade(TM) enclosure (SBE-714D), ...

Cloud Cover
128 HP BL460C Blade Servers; 256 Physical Intel Xeon Processors; 1024 CPU Cores (2.33Ghz, 1666Mhz FSB, 4MB cache per core) (Or roughly 2385.92Ghz!!) 4TB RAM Capacity; EVA 8100 Redundant SAN Cluster; 20TB Fitted Capacity (in 146GB 15k ...

There are still RedBooks being written
Objectives:To create a Redpaper that describes how to best install and run Microsoft Windows Business Essentials Server on blade servers in an IBM BladeCenter S chassis. More >

First Eight OEM Platforms Featuring Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm ...
Customers with demanding applications and those deploying virtualisation can choose from the widest range of AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant servers including blade, rack and tower platforms to efficiently manage the required ...

How does an HP Fibre Channel Virtual Connect Module Work?
... to take away from this is that if you plan to fill your blade chassis with SAN attached blades, each with an HBA connected to a pair of FC-VC modules then you need to plan your bay assignment carefully based on your server load. ...

SPECjAppServer2004 World Record Single Application Server: Sun ...
One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 62% better performance over the HP BL460c blade result of 2056.27 JOPS@Standard which used two 3.1 Ghz Xeon X5460 chips. ...

Demand for IT in infrastructure continues
NEW DELHI: With the retail and construction sector expanding their IT infrastructure in the country, the overall revenue of the servers, a data storage device, touched $727 million (about Rs 2903 crore) in 2007 recording a 24 per cent ...

Seagate innovates drive security
Very cool, giving the end user options for data encryption could be ideal, particularly in those small satelite sites, where we might have a server and a few laptops/pcs. Being able to have secured hard drives in the box could give the ...

Talking about the DL785 G5
Very cool, the DL785 G5 does look cool, the 8 socket servers (which are available from other vendors) could be great for hpc/grid, database or virtualization solutions, they might not be for everyone, but the ability to choose the right ...