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Planning to buy a server with at least 48GB Ram, are the blades way to go?

We're planning to host our website for the first time for ourselves. We have currently have a linode of 8 gigs and the memory is going up to 90% most of the time. So I want to move my website to my own server with huge RAM. So this will be first…
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how many decibels of noise will an Intel R1000BB generate?

I pulled up the datasheet but there's only "Acoustics Sound Power Measured" and I can't make any sense of it. It's got numbers like (page 15): Power in Watts: >= 300W Servers/Rack Mount BA: 7.0 I'm trying to figure out if we can realistically…
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Using 48v for servers

I'm currently in the middle of a process to specify and design a new server environment for graphics and video rendering. We know we want to use blades, and we're pretty sure of our vendor decisions. We've got one massive problem, and that's…
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How do I convince Dell blades to PXE Boot

Scenario: Brand new Dell M610 blades. Connected to the network with a 10GE uplink into a Dell PowerConnect M6220 blade switch. DHCP server evidently working, as everything else boots / gets addresses fine. TFTP server working fine. Can't seem to get…
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Multiple servers vs 1 big server performance

My team of developers has suggested a server structure for an upcoming project we are developing. Our structure is "logical", meaning that the various logical components of the application (it is a distributed one) relies on different servers. Some…
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How does a blade server differ from a normal rackmount server?

This may be a question but I thought I would ask even so.
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4X10GB Bonded NIC - only producing 4-5GB throughput

I have Two HPBL685c G6 blade servers running Ubuntu 15.04 Each server has 4X10GB NIC 2x10GB NIC are connected to a single VirtualConnect 10/10G Ethernet module The other 2x10GB NIC are connected to a second VirtualConnect 10/10G Ethernet…
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How to install VMware 5.5 and higher on HP BL460c G6

I have an HP ProLiant BL460c G6 with the HP NC532i Dual Port 10Gbe BL-c Adapter installed. VMware won't install on this machine stating the network device is not found. This happens with both the VMware-issued installer and the special HP edition…
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Ideal way to deploy SSL to blades/chassis

I have about 14 Dell M1000e chassis and corresponding 224 blades. I just received a wildcard SSL cert, but don't want to manually visit each administrative page to upload the cert/key. I understand the racadm command can do this for me, but the…
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Using a 1G Ethernet Pass-Thru with BL460C G7 blade?

I've installed a new G7 BL460C into my HP BladeSystem C7000 enclosure. I have not had a G7 before. In the enclosure I have two 1GB Ethernet Pass-Thru interconnect modules (406740-B21). I am able to assign ports on the pass-thru modules to the G7…
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Understanding redundant power supplies

Im looking into the cost of putting a Cassandra cluster into a colo facility. Along these lines there would be 6-8 servers at the outset with expected growth over time. One option is just a series of Dell R320 (or similar). Another option would be…
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Blade servers for vm?

We're using VMware on a normal rack mounted server and considering getting another. I see these days I can pick blade enclosures and servers up for relatively low cost and see the term blade and vm mentioned quite a lot. So my question - how would a…
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Blade servers in small office server room (90db)?

We have small server room with 15 rack servers ATM, and we are planning to add 7U 10 blade enclosure. One can hear the servers from the outside now (the doors are not too thick) but it is not bad, actually it is OK. But I have read that noise levels…
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linux - HP BLADE machines - identify the Server name from my Linux OS

I have a Linux machine (RedHat version release 5.6) in HP BLADE Hardware I am trying to find a solution to identify the server name from my Linux OS (Linux installed in the HP Blade HW), (Server name) appears in the Access Options screen Example –…
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how many blade enclosures can you fit in a rack?

Considering the power and cooling requirements of HP's or IBM's newest blade (10U) chassis fully stacked, how many of them can you fit in a standard size rack (42 U) ?
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