blade servers (1955)

[Aly Dharshi]

The sad part of using these Blade Servers is that they only will accept 
1 daughter card. If you want more network interfaces and also a fiber 
card to hook up to say a McData or Brocade switch today, you are royally 
boned.

You can only do one or the other. In working with a mate here at work 
found that for our use, power savings were achieved after 5 blades, and 
that its useless for less than 5 blades, Plus the dell.ca site doesn't 
list the chassis price which is annoying.

Dell has a new R series coming out sometime this is according to our 
Dell rep (talk to your Dell rep and ask them for literature) which 
promises some goodies.

Jim Howard wrote:
> 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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