It’s always good to have a single source of comparisons for the Tier 1 blade servers, so here is the updated list. I realize that I should have posted this in December, but I guess it’s better late than never.
Intel
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Today Intel announced the next generation of their x86 CPU, the Xeon E5-2600 v3. The specific CPU models being offered vary by server vendor, so here’s a summary of what the new CPU will provide.
The past few months have seen some long awaited new additions to Dell’s PowerEdge VRTX system. In an effort to prevent this from being an “all Dell” blog, I’ve held off writing about these new additions until today. In a quick summary, the new additions include: 2nd PERC, added support for VMware ESXi 5.5, added support for the M820 blade server and the ability to repurpose blade servers from the […]
This update includes blade servers with the Intel Xeon E5-4600 v2 CPU. I’ll add the E7 v2 once they begin shipping (and I have some data).
Intel announced the refresh of their 4 socket E5 line taking the CPU up to 12 cores, and 30MB of shared cache and supporting memory speeds up to 1866 MTS DDR3 DIMMs. I’ve updated the current blade server comparison list to include the E5-4600 v2 offering: Direct link to PDF (117kb): BladesMadeSimple_Blade_Server_Comparison_3.12.14 If you see anything missing […]
It appears someone at HP slipped up and posted Intel E5-4600 v2 specs for the HP ProLiant BL660c Gen 8 blade server a few weeks ahead of Intel’s announcement later in Q1. HP has since removed the details, but customers looking at the 4 socket blade server may be interested to know what HP will be offering, so check out Google’s cache of the HP QuickSpec at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-Uh2au2-GvMJ:h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14394_ca/14394_ca.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Not a […]