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

[Jason Staudenmayer <jasons NJAQUARIUM ORG>]

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 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 otc edu
> 417-799-0552
> 
> 
> 
> Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
> 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Dave Ihnat [mailto:ignatz 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 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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