Questions tagged [blade-server]
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Planning to buy a server with at least 48GB Ram, are the blades way to go?
We're planning to host our website for the first time for ourselves. We have currently have a linode of 8 gigs and the memory is going up to 90% most of the time. So I want to move my website to my ...
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how many decibels of noise will an Intel R1000BB generate?
I pulled up the datasheet but there's only "Acoustics Sound Power Measured" and I can't make any sense of it. It's got numbers like (page 15):
Power in Watts: >= 300W
Servers/Rack Mount BA: 7.0
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Using 48v for servers
I'm currently in the middle of a process to specify and design a new server environment for graphics and video rendering.
We know we want to use blades, and we're pretty sure of our vendor decisions. ...
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Multiple servers vs 1 big server performance
My team of developers has suggested a server structure for an upcoming project we are developing. Our structure is "logical", meaning that the various logical components of the application (it is a ...
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How do I convince Dell blades to PXE Boot
Scenario:
Brand new Dell M610 blades.
Connected to the network with a 10GE uplink into a Dell PowerConnect M6220 blade switch.
DHCP server evidently working, as everything else boots / gets addresses ...
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How does a blade server differ from a normal rackmount server?
This may be a question but I thought I would ask even so.
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4X10GB Bonded NIC - only producing 4-5GB throughput
I have Two HPBL685c G6 blade servers running Ubuntu 15.04
Each server has 4X10GB NIC
2x10GB NIC are connected to a single VirtualConnect 10/10G Ethernet module
The other 2x10GB NIC are connected to a ...
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Ideal way to deploy SSL to blades/chassis
I have about 14 Dell M1000e chassis and corresponding 224 blades. I just received a wildcard SSL cert, but don't want to manually visit each administrative page to upload the cert/key. I understand ...
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How to install VMware 5.5 and higher on HP BL460c G6
I have an HP ProLiant BL460c G6 with the HP NC532i Dual Port 10Gbe BL-c Adapter installed. VMware won't install on this machine stating the network device is not found. This happens with both the ...
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PowerEdge FX2s ram types
I have a PowerEdge FX2s modular server with two PowerEdge FC630 Blades.
Does the RAM type in both blades need to be identical in terms of:
2133P / 2400T ?
Ranks ?
Module sizes symmetry ?
I am new in ...
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how many blade enclosures can you fit in a rack?
Considering the power and cooling requirements of HP's or IBM's newest blade (10U) chassis fully stacked, how many of them can you fit in a standard size rack (42 U) ?
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Understanding redundant power supplies
Im looking into the cost of putting a Cassandra cluster into a colo facility. Along these lines there would be 6-8 servers at the outset with expected growth over time. One option is just a series of ...
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Blade servers for vm?
We're using VMware on a normal rack mounted server and considering getting another.
I see these days I can pick blade enclosures and servers up for relatively low cost and see the term blade and vm ...
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Blade servers in small office server room (90db)?
We have small server room with 15 rack servers ATM, and we are planning to add 7U 10 blade enclosure.
One can hear the servers from the outside now (the doors are not too thick) but it is not bad, ...
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linux - HP BLADE machines - identify the Server name from my Linux OS
I have a Linux machine (RedHat version release 5.6) in HP BLADE Hardware
I am trying to find a solution to identify the server name from my Linux OS (Linux installed in the HP Blade HW), (Server name)...
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Using a 1G Ethernet Pass-Thru with BL460C G7 blade?
I've installed a new G7 BL460C into my HP BladeSystem C7000 enclosure. I have not had a G7 before. In the enclosure I have two 1GB Ethernet Pass-Thru interconnect modules (406740-B21). I am able to ...
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How is NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS env variable generated?
I have a couple of HP BL460Cs that are being tested to determine which processor we want to go with when we start upgrading our equipment, and there's a problem with this environment variable on one ...
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Dell VRTX - slow cluster shared storage
I have a brand new Dell VRTX box set up as a Failover Cluster running HA Hyper-V virtual machines. This is my first time setting up clustering, and my first time with one of these boxes, so I'm sure ...
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Default username and password on a brand new Dell CMC Blade management chassis
We've just got a brand new Dell M1000e blade chassis ^.^ (Squee!).
We've no idea what the username/login for the Dell CMC manager is.
Anyone know? We've mountains of paper and docs from Dell, and ...
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HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure : Ilo : Python : get_asset_tag() Not working
I try to connect to a HP Blade Server (HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure ) using Python's HP-ILO module.
obj=hpilo.Ilo('172.8.2.29', login='Administrator', password='<redacted>', timeout=60, port=...
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HP Blade ILO not responding in chassis ILO
I have just started at a new company and I am inspecting their current server config. The HP 480c blades in a c7000 chassis aren't responding to ILO, although the chassis ILO is working fine. I have a ...
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Default password for hp c7000 blade servers
Has anybody worked on hp c7000 blade servers before. I have just ordered them and brought them on network. I tried logging in from web browser but I do not have the default password to log in. User ...
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Probability of Blade Chassis Failure, Redundancy
Suppose I have a blade server HP C7000, with three blades.
Q1. Is there any disaster recovery technique that provides redundancy between blades? If any one blade goes down the second should come up ...
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Blade server in a nutshell?
Can anyone give a real description of a blade server and what it's advantages are besides space? Are there any disadvantages? And also, do you think smaller companies (think around maybe 4-5 actual ...
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BladeCenter basics
Every manufacturer seems to have different standards for what ships with their hardware; mounting rails, cable arms, power cables etc. I've got used to that for standard rack-mounted gear, but now I'...
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BL460c G7 blade OS install
I have an HP c7000 enclosure with a BL460c G7 blade. I need to install Windows server OS on it. I have a problem with iLO, so it will not mount the ISO in the remote console. Tried using both Active-X ...
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Automatic VM capacity planning
Situation:
I've got a bunch of blades, all with same amount of memory and cores in each. Some have local storage, some do not and rely on the SAN.
I've also got a ton of VMs that I need to build ...
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Dell Blade Server 'Voltage is outside of the allowable range'?
I have 16 Dell M610 blades running in an M1000E chassis, all has been fine since they were installed. However I have just been made aware of the following error messages in the DRAC on one of the ...
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Dell Blade server Networking fundamentals?
i'm planing to purchase Dell m1000e blade server,
if i want to connect the server to a SAN server via Fibre Channel Blade Switch Modules should i install fiber channel host bus adapter (mezzanine card)...
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IBM BladeServer Chassis compatibility
I'm looking at buying a 3 year old blade server. My question is, if I buy it and want to insert a current model blade, will it fit?
Also, if the chassis goes "POP" and I need to replace it, will the ...
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ESX DRS anti-affinity rule to blade enclosures
If I have an ESX 3.5U4 cluster of, let's say, 20 hosts split between two or more blade enclosures/racks is there any way of configuring DRS to never host two guests of the same class on blades in the ...
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c7000 - 1GB Ethernet Pass-Thru
I cant get the BL460c Gen 8 to work with the 1GB Ethernet Pass-Thru non of the ports are mapped or lighting up.
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Moving a blade server to another C7000 enclosure
I need to move a Bl460c G7 blade to another C7000 enclosure. The server is attached to a D2700 SAS direct attached storage through a 6GB SAS Switches which are also inserted in old C7000. I need to ...
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Are blade servers noisier than regular rack servers?
Further to this question about Blade vs Rack servers I wanted to check some stories I have heard.
Are Blade servers much noisier than regular rack servers? (or was that just when they first came out?)...
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Graphics cards in a 1U server?
Is it possible to place a graphics card like the AMD HD6970 in a 1U blade server?
I’m looking at either an HP or a Dell, including these two models:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400445182450?s...1423....
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Strangeness during Windows Server Install (drive duplication) [SAN]
I have recently taken over as an administrator for an IBM chassis and associated blades, along with accompanying IBM SAN.
One of the blades is running VMWare ESXi 5, and we don't need it anymore, so ...
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Need advice with regards to mezzanine card for new HP bl460c gen8 blade
The new blade will connect to an iSCSI MSA2000 SAN with a 1Gb interconnect. Do I need both mezzanine slots populated? What ethernet card do you recommend?
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HP Blade System 7000 - Fans About to Take Off
We've noticed lately that our HP Blade System 7000 sounds like it's going to take off. The top 2 PSU on the right are incredibly loud and blowing out significantly more air than the 2 to the left or ...
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Will ESXi 5.5 in standalone mode (free) support fibre channel SAN?
I have a HP blade in a C7000 enclosure and a new 3PAR StoreServ 7200 over Fibre Channel.
Today we use DAS and have not virtualized our SQL servers.
My goal is:
SQL Server 2008 -> WS2012R2 -> ESXi 5.5 ...
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HP Blade Enclosures: Passthrough Network Modules or Virtual Connect Modules
I was wondering if people had any opinions.
I am a big of the virtual connect modules and have only used the pass through's when the blades weren't virtualized and were running large Datbase Servers.
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Connection speed between blades
a local company sponsored our university a bladecenter (HP c7000) equipped with 16 HP c460 blades. Our main issue is, that we don't know at which network speed the blades talk to each other.
Our goal ...
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How does Mezzanine network ports map to Blades Chasis?
We have Dell M420 Blades with Dell M1000e chasiss ,the backplane has four dell pass-through switches .
On M420 we have Mezzanine card with 4 ethernet ports -
From CMC i see that those Mezzanine 4 ...
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Can HP blade server/any server units be run as stand alone workstation?
I am new to the Server Hardware world?
My question is very basic and might be absurd. Since I haven't had the opportunity to work on blades yet.
Can HP blade server units/any other blade server ...
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Setting up 2 x switches in a blade server (BX600) - First time
I have the following items:
Primergy BX600 MMB3
10 x BX620 S4
2 x Switch Blade (PG-SW107)
QNAP (TS-EC1279U-RP – QNAP) (4 x Gigabit Connections)
HP Pro curve Switch (2510g-48 (JA9280-A))
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Crucial C300 256GB SSDs in Dell M605 (or similar) Blade with Perc H700
Does anyone have any experience with 3rd party SSD drives in any of the Dell Blade range?
I'm not prepared to pay dell £1000 for a 100GB SSD drive, when I can pick up 2x 256GB drives for £800!
I've ...
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Moving HP BL460c and partnered D2220sb blades to new c7000 slots
I need to move a Bl460c Gen9 Server Blade with its partnered D2220sb Storage Blade (with RHEL OS and Apps already installed) from slots/bays 1 and 2 from the lab C7000 chassis to ANOTHER C7000 chassis ...
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SuperMicro Superblade fails to boot from hard drive
Following issue. I have a number of Superblades with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i cards. One card per server. All of them use the latest firmware (20.13.1-0176) as of this writing (as per the LSI website)....
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Resource Pool sharing in Hyper-V Virtual Machines
I understand that we can install Hyper-V on one server and run a number of Virtual Machines on it, upto the limit of resources of that server. I want to know if it is possible to install Hyper-V ...
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Setting up a used Dell PowerEdge 1655mc
I recently acquired a used Dell PowerEdge 1655mc blade server with 6 functioning blade units. I need to wipe each of the blade units, reinstall them with fresh copies of Linux, and otherwise get this ...
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How do I resolve certificate errors on HP blade center
I'm trying to sort out the ssl certificate errors that we get when trying to manage our HP c7000 blade enclosures. To that end I have created a signing certificate and imported it into the browser. In ...
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