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Examining Web Serving on the PowerEdge 1655MC

Overview The Dell PowerEdge 1655MC server blade system running Intel Pentium III processors provides a cost-effective and flexible platform for horizontally scaled, mid-tier applications. Dell tested the basic functionality of the various PowerEdge 1655MC components as well as the management software that ships with each system. This white paper also explains how the Dell team installed and optimized a Web-serving application on the PowerEdge 1655MC to examine its scalability and availability as a Web server.

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Publisher	Dell Computer	File Format	HTML
Date Published	February 2003	Downloads	72
Format	White Papers
Topics	Blades, Web Services, RAID

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