Dell announced today the addition a full-height 4 socket PowerEdge M915 blade server based on the AMD Opteron 6100 series CPU family. Known best with the code name, “Magny-Cours”, this CPU family boasts up to 12 CPU cores with a 512k per core L2 cache and a 12MB of shared L3 cache. The AMD Opeteron 6100 family also has AMD CoolCore™ technology, AMD PowerNow!™ technology, Enhanced C1 state, AMD CoolSpeed technology.
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A Review of the Dell PowerEdge M710 HD Blade Server
Dell’s Product Marketing team recently provided me with a pair of Dell PowerEdge M710HD blade servers, so I decided to give you a review, but today I’m taking a different approach and providing you with a review via video. Since this blog is YOUR blog, let please let me know if you like this format.
A Look at the Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade Server
Intel and Dell recently agreed to provide me with a Dell PowerEdge M610 blade server for me to use in my lab, so I thought I’d take advantage of the opportunity and write-up a review. I’m going to go into further details about the blade server in the following blog post, but here are the high-level quick specs:
Dell To Introduce A New Mini-Chassis for Blades?
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. Continue reading
Dell Announces Blade Refresh and NIC Partitioning (NPAR)
Dell announced today a refresh of the PowerEdge M910 blade server based on the Intel Xeon E7 processor. The M910 is a full-height blade that can hold 512GB of RAM across 32 DIMMs. The refreshed M910 blade server will also feature Dell’s FlexMem bridge that enables users to use all 32 DIMM slots with only 2 CPUs. You can read more about the M910 blade server in an earlier blog post of mine here.
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Cisco Refreshes UCS B440 M2 and B230 M2 with Intel Xeon E7
Cisco announced today the refresh of their UCS B440 M2 and B230 blade servers with the newly announced Intel Xeon E7. Continue reading
Intel Announces New Xeon 4 Socket CPU (E7); Dell, HP and IBM Slated to Refresh Blades
UPDATED 11:30 a.m. EST (4/6/11) – Intel announced today the next version of their 4 socket chipset, known as “E7”. Previously known with the codename of Westmere EX, the newly released Xeon 7600 will be rebranded as the Intel Xeon E7. Continue reading
New Use for Blade Servers? HP E5000 Messaging System
Anyone who reads this site frequently will know that I try to predict the future and speculate on what’s to come in the realm of blade server technology. HP recently developed a new offering that opens up the possibilities of how blade servers will be used in the near future. Continue reading
A Look at the Dark Side of the Force
When I go to San Francisco, I head over to the west side of town to peer through the closed gates of the hidden campus of Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) dreaming of catching a glimpse of the magic. Recently Arik Hesseldahl, from All Things Digital, accomplished my dream and had a peek behind the curtains of what makes ILM run. Arik interviewed ILM’s CIO, Kevin Clark and then toured the ILM data center. Continue reading
Blade Servers Causing Data Centers To Be Re-designed?
A recent article from AsiaOne.com reported that modern data centers are having problems handling the dense server environment that blade servers provide. The article mentions that traditional data centers that were built less than five years ago were designed to have a uniform energy distribution of around 2kW to 4kW (kilowatts) per server rack. With the growth of blade servers being at the highest since the inception eight years ago, today’s data centers are packed with dense blade servers that are now pushing the envelope beyond 12kW, thus putting a huge strain on the design of the data center. In fact, according to Rakesh Kumar, a Gartner research vice-president, “‘A rack that is 60 per cent filled could have a power draw as high as 12kW.” The article goes on to mention that current data centers may need to be re-designed to handle the future power requirements of blades. Continue reading