[ILUG] IBM blade servers

[Gary Pigott]

One isn't much use without the chassis.
These are blades. Multiple servers slotting into a chassis with common
power, storage, KVM etc.
See
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/advantage/competitive.html

They're for high density use. You'll get 14 of these IBM blades into a 7U
chassis. Because so much of the duplicated hardware is eliminated, you use
significantly less power too.

You may be getting the blades 1/2 price, but you're going to be paying full
whack (and probably more) for the chassis.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of
nexor
Sent: 16 June 2006 03:28
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] IBM blade servers

> this and more importantly if this is true is anybody interested 
> forming a group to purchase some.
Hi,

I (most likely) would be interested in buying _one_

cheers
Tomek
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