question.. not sure where to post..!!
Jason Staudenmayer
jasons at NJAQUARIUM.ORG
Thu Oct 28 14:42:53 UTC 2004
Yes that does help, thank you for clearing that up for me. I'm guessing they
would be geared towards "low powered" servers like DNS and not a major DB
server.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathaniel Hall [mailto:halln at otc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:35 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: question.. not sure where to post..!!
>
>
> The blade servers a separate server. I suppose you could
> cluster them
> using software, they are actually separate servers. We use
> Dell blades
> at the time. The shared chassis has a built in KVM and Gig switch.
> Each blade that we order has two processors, two gigs of ram, two 145
> gig SCSI drives raided together and, through the use of the
> chassis, two
> gig nics. A USB 1.1 floppy and CD-ROM is used for
> installation (not at
> the same time). 6 blades can fit into each 3 U chassis and
> each chassis
> ( on the cheaper end) uses 120 volt power.
>
> HP has a similar product, but the chassis is 6 U and uses 240
> volt power
> and can usually have 20 blades per enclosure. The main
> reason for not
> going with HP, other than power, was the hard drive. Instead
> of using
> normal SCSI drives, the model we looked at used IDE laptop
> drives. The
> laptop drives spin much slower than other drives, usually 5400 RPMs.
>
> Hope that helped.
>
> Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
> Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
> Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking
>
> halln at otc.edu
> 417-799-0552
>
>
>
> Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Dave Ihnat [mailto:ignatz at dminet.com]
> >>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:34 AM
> >>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> >>Subject: Re: question.. not sure where to post..!!
> >>
> >>
> >>On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:14:09AM -0400, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'm thinking the same thing. You could just get a blade box
> >>>
> >>>
> >>but I've never
> >>
> >>
> >>>played with one, so I'm not quit sure of how they function.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I would imagine
> >>
> >>
> >>>it's a cluster situation.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>The biggest problem with blades today is that they're still
> >>proprietary. I
> >>won't touch 'em until there's enough of a standard that
> >>you're not locked
> >>into one manufacturer once you select a blade system.
> >>--
> >> Dave Ihnat
> >> ignatz at dminet.com
> >>
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> >Are they a cluster or can they act as separate machines?
> (just for my own
> >knowledge).
> >
> >
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