good stuff... i'm basically looking into how to create a really cheap (as in cost) not quality!! dual mobo blade system. it would be great if i could take two small mobos, and slam them into a backplane, and share the power supply, while having separate mem/harddrive. my ultimate goal is to have a device that i could hang on my network, and use one side of it as a media player, and the other as a app platform. over time, i wouldn't need the floppy/cd/keyboard as i'd like to be able to completly control the device/boards via the ethernet connection... thanks... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nathaniel Hall Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 7:35 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
