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Wow, Cool, Neat - Who's going to use them?
Until infrastructure is set up to support blades, I don't see anyone using them except for evaluations. As I mentioned previously, most data centers are set up for many servers spread out over a large room. 10s of blades are put into a single rack (say 100 for example). This means that your power requirements and cooling requirements and network requirements are pretty huge in that one area - whereas your existing infrastructure has them spread all over. Since each blade could have 2 enet connections and 2 SAN fiber connections apiece, 100 blades requires 400 cables - all in the space of 1 rack. The tremendous heat these racks give off requires a dedicated cooling unit - not one in the far corner blowing air under the floor. You Might be looking at 100 power connections - but many blade server racks have "frames" that you put 10 to 20 blades in (with 2 power cables) - so more like 20 power cables (separate 30-40 amp lines).

So, the overall just of my comments are that IF you have the infrastructure to support them, they could be valuable to you - but probably not.
Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 10/08/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Wow, Cool, Neat - Who's going to use them?  Roger Ramjet | 10/08/04
Actually....  phorvath2110 | 10/08/04

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