Last week at VMworld 2010 I had the opportunity to get some great pictures of HP and Dell’s newest blade servers. The HP Proliant BL620 G7, the HP Proliant BL680 G7 and the Dell PowerEdge M610X and M710HD. These newest blade servers are exciting offerings from HP and Dell so I encourage you to take a few minutes to look.
HP BL620 G7
The BL620 G7 is a full-height blade server with 2 x CPU sockets designed to handle the Intel 7500 (and possibly the 6500) CPU. It has 32 memory DIMMS, 2 hot-plug hard drive bays and 3 mezzanine expansion slots.
HP BL680 G7
The BL680 G7 is an upgrade to to the previous generation, however the 7th generation is a double-wide server. This design offers up to 4 servers in a C7000 BladeSystem chassis. This server’s claim to fame is that it will hold 1 terabyte (1TB) of RAM.
PowerEdge 11G M710HD
Ideal for virtualization or applications requiring large amounts of memory, the M710HD is a half-height blade server that offers up:
* Up to 2 Intel 5500 or 5600 Xeon Processors
* 18 memory DIMMs
* 2 hot-swap drives (SAS and Solid State Drive Option)
* 2 mezzanine card slots
* dual SD slots for redundant hypervisor
*2 or 4 x 1Gb NICs
PowerEdge 11G M610x
As the industry continues to hype up GPGPU (General Purpose computing on Graphic Processor Units), it’s no surprise to see that Dell has announced the availability of a blade server with dedicated PCIe 16xGen2 slots. Here’s some quick details about this blade server:
* Full-height blade server
* Up to 2 Intel 5500 or 5600 Xeon Processors
* 12 memory DIMMs
* 2 hot-swap drives
* 2 mezzanine card slots
* 2 x PCIe 16x(Gen2) slots
I wonder why the HP BL620 G7 could not have been designed in a half width form factor? Any thoughts on that Kevin?
Thanks,
Brad
I think the #HP BL620 G7 is in a full height factor because of the 32 DIMM slots. I don’t think there is anyway any vendor is going to get 32 DIMMs in a half-height design. I could be wrong, but that’s my thought. Thanks for the question, and as always, thanks for reading!
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The header for the BL680 says BL620. Nice pictures.
Hey Kevin,
You asked for it so we engineered it just to impress you – the Cisco UCS B230… 32 DIMMs in a half-slot design. :) http://bit.ly/UCSB230
Hmm, Brad asks the question and Sean delivers the punch. Nice #Cisco set up! New blog post referencing back to your blog just posted at http://tinyurl.com/27qcnbt.
Nice catch. I’ve updated the header to read BL680. Thanks for reading!
Hmm, Brad asks the question and Sean delivers the punch. Nice #Cisco set up! New blog post referencing back to your blog just posted at http://tinyurl.com/27qcnbt.
Sean,
Maybe we should name this blade after Kevin? The KH230 sounds pretty nice :-)
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