Tag Archives: blade server

Cisco UCS XE9305 — Blade Servers Designed for the Modern Edge

Cisco has expanded its blade server lineup with a new platform built specifically for edge environments, where space, power, and simplicity matter. Launched in November 2025, the Cisco UCS XE9305 Chassis and UCS XE130c M8 Compute Node form the backbone of the Cisco Unified Edge solution — a modular, AI-ready, cloud-managed system that brings compute, networking, storage, and security together in a compact blade form factor.

In this post, we’ll break down what this offering is all about and share the key technical details. Continue reading →

Taking a Look at the Newest Blade Server Offerings

I’ll admit—I’ve been holding off on writing about the latest blade server offerings. I wanted to give all the major server vendors time to announce and start shipping their new models. But now that the dust has settled, I’m genuinely surprised by what I’ve found. Continue reading →

Available 4th Gen Intel Xeon CPUs by Blade Server Vendor

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new.  This is partly because blade server news has practically diminished; or I’m just getting really bad at finding “blog-worthy” content.  Either way, in this post, I thought it would be helpful to take to post a comparison of CPUs by blade server vendor. Continue reading →

Details of Network Partitioning on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers

Network interface card partitioning (NPAR) allows users to minimize the implementation of physical Network interface cards (NICs) and separates Local Area Network (LAN) and Storage Area Network (SAN) connections. NPAR improves bandwidth allocation, network traffic management, and utilization in virtualized and non-virtualized network environments. The number of physical servers may be fewer, but the demand for the NIC ports is more.  This blog describes how to validate, enable, and configure NPAR on a Dell PowerEdge MX Platform through the server System Setup and the MX compute sled Server Templates within Dell Open Manage Enterprise – Modular (OME-M).  Read the full blog here.

Backing Up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 Settings and Configurations

As anyone knows, having a functional backup (and recovery) plan for your datacenter is vital to insuring data protection.  While data protection of servers is a basic need, what about the infrastructure that supports it?  In the blade server world, the infrastructure is the chassis, management and switches.  In this post, I’ll discuss best practices for backing up the settings and configurations of the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 infrastructure. Continue reading →

Cisco Announces UCS X210c M7 and UCS X410c M7 Blade Servers

As expected, I’m starting to see the blade server vendors unveil their next generations of product based in the 4th Generation Intel Xeon SP CPUs.  It looks like Cisco was first to announce, as I haven’t seen any other blade server vendor announce.  In today’s blog post, I’ll highlight what’s been released about Cisco’s latest announcements. Continue reading →