Tag Archive

AVATAR BL460 BladeCenter Bladecenter H blade server blade servers bladesystem Cisco Cisco UCS cna converged network adapter Dell Emulex FCoE FlexMem Bridge HP HP BladeSystem HP BladeSystem c7000 HS22 HX5 IBM IBM BladeCenter IBM BladeCenter H IDC Intel Intel Xeon 5500 M710HD market share max5 NDC Nehalem EX Network Daughter Card Nexus Nexus 4000 Nexus 4001I NPAR Power PowerEdge M910 UCS UCS 5108 Virtual Fabric Adapter virtualization VMware Xeon 5600 Xeon 7500

Blade Chassis I/O Diagrams

Published on July 15, 2011 By Kevin Houston

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 [...]

Dell To Introduce A New Mini-Chassis for Blades?

Published on April 18, 2011 By Kevin Houston

It’s been a little quiet in the blade market place over the past few weeks, but I found some information that may peak some interests.

(UPDATED) 4TB SAN, 3 ESX Hosts for only $32,000? YES, It’s Real!

Published on July 27, 2010 By Kevin Houston

(Updated 7/27/2010 – 11 am EST – added info on power and tower options)  When you think about blade servers, you probably think, “they are too expensive.” When you think about doing a VMware project, you probably think, “my servers are too old” or “I can’t afford new servers.” For $8 per GB, you can have [...]