blade servers (1955)

[Jim Howard]

Hello, and thank you for the responses, Erik and Tom.  What I was
looking for was just information on how people had them set up.  Are you
doing clustering/HA type systems, or just independant servers?  If you
are doing HA and/or load balancing, I was also wanting to know how easy
it was to add/remove from the cluster, and if you were doing it
dynamically.  If dynamically, do you have it automated based on criteria
like load?
 
OK, I guess I want to know a lot, but any information you can offer up
would be greatly appreciated.  We have some projects coming online that
may have a need for a fairly dynamic CPU load, and it would be nice to
be able to move the processing power between clusters.  I may be having
a pipedream too.  We did this with SUN in the Cray chassis, but that was
also a $2mil plus machine.
 
Jim
 

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From: Erik Cummings [mailto:ecummings at PathworksSoftware.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:33 PM
To: Jim Howard; linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: RE: blade servers (1955)



Jim,

            We are running both Debian (Etch -> NOT Sarge) and CentOS
4.5 on them.  Config and mgmt has been a breeze.  Anything in particular
you are looking for?

 

Erik

 

P.S.  I've used this list exclusively for them.

 

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jim Howard
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:38 AM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: blade servers (1955)

 

Just curious if there are any SIGs or other lists/resources for running
Linux on the blade servers.  I am looking for configuration information,
case studies, reports of success/failure, etc.

 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you,

 

Jim

 

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