From the monthly archives: July 2011

Best Practices for Power and Cooling Blades

By On July 25, 2011 · 7 Comments

One of the biggest challenges related to blade servers in an existing data center is how to power and cool.  APC wrote a white paper (link below) that explains how to asses the options to best power and cool your blade environment. 

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Will the New VMware vSphere 5 Licensing Affect Blade Vendors?

By On July 20, 2011 · 14 Comments

As you no doubt heard by now, VMware has announced a new version of vSphere along with some new or improved features however, this post will not highlight these features.  In this post, I want to talk about what did not improve – the licensing. 

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Blade Chassis I/O Diagrams

By On July 15, 2011 · 32 Comments

Many people get confused as to why so many I/O modules are needed within a given blade chassis.  The basic concept is simple (in most cases) – for each port you need on a given blade server, you need to have a corresponding I/O module.  For example, if you need 4 NICs, you’re going to need [...]

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IBM Offers FREE Blade Chassis Through December (No Purchase Required)

By On July 13, 2011 · 6 Comments

IBM once again is promoting is striving to increase market share by offering customers the chance to get a “free” IBM BladeCenter chassis.   The last time they promoted a free chassis was in November, so this year they kicked in the promo effective July 5, 2011.  The promotion is for a free chassis – without any [...]

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BladesMadeSimple.com is Looking for Help

By On July 7, 2011 · 4 Comments

Are you passionate about technology?  Do you stay up to date on what’s new in the x86 marketplace, especially blade servers?  Do you like to work for free?  If so, BladesMadeSimple.com could use you!

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