Comments on: IBM’s 4 Processor Intel Nehalem EX Blade Server

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:37:52 +0000

Yeah, everyone and their grandmother will be releasing Nehalem-EX blades in 2 x socket, 4 x socket and even 8 x socket configurations and so far, from what you've described, IBM doesn't appear to be much different than most others. What is IBM going to do about RAS? Their current blade designs poses lots of reliability challenges considering they place the heat generating CPUs towards front of the blade where it will heat rest of components in the blade and with no redundancy nor hotswappable drives, their current blade design needs a major overhaul.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:47:24 +0000

Thanks for reading – I’m not sure what RAS features will be incorporated into new blades, however your comments about heat and hot swap drives are not accurate. The IBM HS22 blade has a very efficient design with air channels going through the blade server that allow for effficient cooling. Oh yeah, and it has hot-swap drives. You should check it out (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/hs22/index.html) there’s more coming to this family in less than a week…

By: unix player

unix player — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:56:03 +0000

RT @kevin_houston: Tease Alert : IBM’s 4 Processor Intel Nehalem EX Blade Server: http://tinyurl.com/y8khw9q #ibm #nehalem-ex #bladeserver

By: Kevin Houston

Kevin Houston — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:50:41 +0000

Tease Alert : IBM’s 4 Processor Intel Nehalem EX Blade Server: http://tinyurl.com/y8khw9q #ibm #nehalem-ex #bladeserver

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:50:41 +0000

Tease Alert : IBM’s 4 Processor Intel Nehalem EX Blade Server: http://tinyurl.com/y8khw9q #ibm #nehalem-ex #bladeserver