The company claims Dell's PowerEdge servers will offer the highest possible level of availability. A Californian application service provider (ASP), eOnline, has agreed to use Dell servers to host ERP services worldwide.
Today, we have 16-way SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) systems, with virtualised partitions and robust system management tools at one end and highly dense, integrated blades at the other end," Whitney said.
The chassis includes components such as power supplies and external network connections all the blades share. However, one person not yet convinced is Robert Marsh, CEO and "head surfer" of website hosting company EV1Servers.net, who said blades...
The PowerEdge 1855 is a 7U-high chassis, which can house up to 10 blades and a fibre channel link for connecting to storage area networks. So, a Chassis with five blades would cost upwards of £6,380, while one with 10 blades would be at least £10...
ESX, while more expensive, permits more sophisticated features such as VMotion, which lets one running operating system be moved from one server to another while it's still running. The higher-end ESX product, by contrast, needs no host and runs...
Dell is also introducing the PowerEdge 1955 blade server on Wednesday. The rack and tower servers are available immediately but availability and pricing for the blade server will be released in the coming weeks.