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@xxxxxxx] > 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@xxxxxxx > 417-799-0552 > > > > Jason Staudenmayer wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Dave Ihnat [mailto:ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx] > >>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@xxxxxxxxxx > >> > >>-- > >>redhat-list mailing list > >>unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > >> > >> > >> > > > >Are they a cluster or can they act as separate machines? > (just for my own > >knowledge). > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
