Comments on: Are Blades the Next “Pizza Box” ESX Servers? http://www.bladevault.info/2008/03/07/are-blades-the-next-pizza-box-esx-servers/ Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas for IBM and HP Blades & Servers, Virtualization Products, and Storage Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:19:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Aaron Delp http://www.bladevault.info/2008/03/07/are-blades-the-next-pizza-box-esx-servers/#comment-300 Aaron Delp Fri, 16 May 2008 11:39:43 +0000 http://www.bladevault.info/2008/03/07/are-blades-the-next-pizza-box-esx-servers/#comment-300 Allen, I agree with you on all accounts. The problem right now is most of the time our customers' VMWare boxes are memory constrained. If the memory was just a little cheaper, we could really give them what they want. If only we had blades with more memory slots... (more on that to come in the future) Allen, I agree with you on all accounts. The problem right now is most of the time our customers’ VMWare boxes are memory constrained. If the memory was just a little cheaper, we could really give them what they want. If only we had blades with more memory slots… (more on that to come in the future)

]]> By: Allen http://www.bladevault.info/2008/03/07/are-blades-the-next-pizza-box-esx-servers/#comment-50 Allen Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:56:24 +0000 http://www.bladevault.info/2008/03/07/are-blades-the-next-pizza-box-esx-servers/#comment-50 We're using HP BL465c's here. I would prefer the full-height BL685c just because I believe it has more memory slots. We have 16GB of memory in each of our ESX hosts, but we really should have 32GB to maximize the CPU power we have. But 4GB DIMMs are just too pricey still. With the BL685c we can still use the 2GB DIMMs but get 32GB in there. Of course, then we'll have four CPUs and quad-core instead of our current dual-core, so we may want 64GB of memory then. In the end, the main reason I wanted bigger servers was to have fewer of them to manage, and that may be another reason why the BL68x series is so popular too. We’re using HP BL465c’s here. I would prefer the full-height BL685c just because I believe it has more memory slots. We have 16GB of memory in each of our ESX hosts, but we really should have 32GB to maximize the CPU power we have. But 4GB DIMMs are just too pricey still. With the BL685c we can still use the 2GB DIMMs but get 32GB in there. Of course, then we’ll have four CPUs and quad-core instead of our current dual-core, so we may want 64GB of memory then.

In the end, the main reason I wanted bigger servers was to have fewer of them to manage, and that may be another reason why the BL68x series is so popular too.

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