Blade Servers: March 2009 Archives

Dell released some details about their new 11th Generation PowerEdge line, and while of course it's more of the usual faster procs, more embedded hypervisors, and higher density and more power-efficiency, the thing that catches my eye is just how awesome they look.especially when you've got them all stacked together.

The new M710 Blades are looking pretty cool, too.  I'd love to have 8 of these arranged in an awesome renderfarm, grid, or VMware ESX Cluster.  By my count, there are 18 memory sockets, which means at least 72GB of ram for the max (assuming 4GB modules).

Still only two CPU sockets (can I get some 4-way action please?***), but with 6-cores (and likely 8-core procs on the horizon), that's still a good deal of compute-power in a 0.8U package.  Here's my favorite picture from Dell's 11G Flickr photoset (because I'm a geek about blades).

And believe me when I say that I wish I could wake up every day and look at a row of DataCenter equipment that looked this HOT!

*** In the immortal words of Vala Malderan, "Not everything I say is innuendo!"