question.. not sure where to post..!!

[Nathaniel Hall]

Actually, we use them for both.  If the system doesn't need more than 
two 145 gig drives, two nics, two processors and (I believe) two gigs of 
ram we use the blades.  If these requirements don't meet our needs, we 
buy a normal server.

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:

>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.
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>>-----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..!!
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>>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:
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>>>>-----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..!!
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>>>>
>>>>On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:14:09AM -0400, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
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>>>>>I'm thinking the same thing. You could just get a blade box 
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>>>>but I've never
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>>>>>played with one, so I'm not quit sure of how they function. 
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>>>>I would imagine
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>>>>>it's a cluster situation.
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>>>>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? 
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