White Papers

Understanding Redundancy in Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers

Overview By consolidating servers, infrastructure components, and management within a single chassis, Dell PowerEdge blade servers can help achieve high efficiency in the data center and provide an optimized rack environment. Blade server deployment requires careful planning of data center resources such as power, networking, infrastructure fabric, cooling, and management access - and the blade server architecture differs from monolithic servers in its possible redundant configurations. The system chassis used in today's monolithic servers hosts a single compute node with one or more CPUs, local storage, network, and other infrastructure components such as management access, power, and cooling. Redundancy options for monolithic servers range from cooling to network redundancy, thereby eliminating single points of failure.

Download White Paper

By downloading you agree to our Terms and Conditions. These include information regarding use of your personal data.

Publisher
Dell
File Format
PDF
Date Published
Mar 29, 2008
Format
White Papers
Topics
Blades, Server Consolidation

Similiar White Papers

Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization

Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization

Currently, virtualization is one of the most talked about new technologies in IT infrastructure. The ability to virtuali

Publisher: Intel  |  Tags: capital, idc, infrastructure, server, software, x86

Moving to a Blade world

Moving to a Blade world

The evolution of Blade Computing has moved from mere server consolidation to a way of managing IT assets which brings si

Publisher: IBM Corporation  |  Tags: computing, server

An examination of server consolidation: the trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge

An examination of server consolidation: the trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge

This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview

Publisher: IBM  |  Tags: cost savings, server

Replace your rack server with the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express blade

Replace your rack server with the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express blade

IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express blade brings the power of mainframes to blades. Coupled with the IBM BladeCenter S chassis,

Publisher: IBM  |  Tags: database, linux, mainframes, server

VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server

VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server

The purpose of this paper is to quantify the impact on typical VMware operations of having just two network connections

Publisher: Dell  |  Tags: network, poweredge

Dell White Papers

Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS to Achieve Highly Available, Load-Balanced Clusters

Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS to Achieve Highly Available, Load-Balanced Clusters

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS operating system integrates Cluster Manager and IP Load Balancing, the features that imp

Publisher: Dell  |  Tags: ip, linux, network, os, poweredge

Efficient BMC Configuration on Dell PowerEdge Servers Using the Dell Deployment Toolkit

Efficient BMC Configuration on Dell PowerEdge Servers Using the Dell Deployment Toolkit

The on-board baseboard management controller (BMC) is a powerful and flexible device that can be used to effectively man

Publisher: Dell  |  Tags: management, poweredge

Using NIC Teaming to Achieve High Availability on Linux Platforms

Using NIC Teaming to Achieve High Availability on Linux Platforms

Network interface card (NIC) teaming is one method for providing high availability and fault tolerance in servers. This

Publisher: Dell  |  Tags: intel, linux, os

Using VMware High Availability and VMotion With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Virtual Machines on Dell PowerEdge Servers

Using VMware High Availability and VMotion With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Virtual Machines on Dell PowerEdge Servers

When running applications in a virtualized environment, such as VMware Infrastructure 3, there are new capabilities that

Publisher: Dell  |  Tags: applications, poweredge, server

Remote OS Deployment Using Dell OpenManage Server Assistant 8 and DRAC 4

Remote OS Deployment Using Dell OpenManage Server Assistant 8 and DRAC 4

Administrators can take advantage of the Dell Remote Access Controller 4 (DRAC 4) and Dell OpenManage Server Assistant w

Publisher: Dell  |  Tags: linux, microsoft windows, operating systems, os, poweredge