Comments on: Hardware Vendor Forum Links http://www.bladevault.info/2008/05/21/hardware-vendor-forum-links/ Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas for IBM and HP Blades & Servers, Virtualization Products, and Storage Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:38:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Aaron Delp http://www.bladevault.info/2008/05/21/hardware-vendor-forum-links/#comment-326 Aaron Delp Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:41:40 +0000 http://www.bladevault.info/?p=36#comment-326 Sorry for not posting your comment sooner! It got caught in the Spam filter (I'm still tweaking the back end of this site). I didn't see it until just now. Great Information! Sorry for not posting your comment sooner! It got caught in the Spam filter (I’m still tweaking the back end of this site). I didn’t see it until just now. Great Information!

]]> By: Vinf http://www.bladevault.info/2008/05/21/hardware-vendor-forum-links/#comment-323 Vinf Thu, 22 May 2008 16:06:28 +0000 http://www.bladevault.info/?p=36#comment-323 Handy list - there's also a Sun one here (although not as busy) http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=908 The Sun blade systems, whilst maybe not as "clever" as the HP/IBM range interms of consolidated interconnects are quite appealing to a lot of projects I'm working on at the moment because; -It allows a mix of Intel/AMD and Sparc CPU architecture blades within the same chassis -Hardware support works out quite cost-effective as it's charged per chassis (rather than per blade) They do also have some other advantages - each blade slot has two seperate PCI slots within the chassis so its easier to mix and match IO configurations than it is with HP c-series for example. it's basically the same as a bunch of rackmount servers hosted in a single chassis with a shared power bus. more info on the range here http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/6000/ Thanks Handy list - there’s also a Sun one here (although not as busy) http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=908

The Sun blade systems, whilst maybe not as “clever” as the HP/IBM range interms of consolidated interconnects are quite appealing to a lot of projects I’m working on at the moment because;

-It allows a mix of Intel/AMD and Sparc CPU architecture blades within the same chassis
-Hardware support works out quite cost-effective as it’s charged per chassis (rather than per blade)

They do also have some other advantages - each blade slot has two seperate PCI slots within the chassis so its easier to mix and match IO configurations than it is with HP c-series for example. it’s basically the same as a bunch of rackmount servers hosted in a single chassis with a shared power bus.

more info on the range here http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/6000/

Thanks

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