Blade Watch

http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/comment/2172567/shape-servers-come

Here’s an interesting thought with which to start the New Year – are some server hardware vendors losing the plot? The recent launch by San Jose-based Supermicro of its 1U Twin server, which contains two dual-processor servers in a single 1U chassis, seems to suggest they are.

There will always be a need (for the short term anyway) for a 1U server, they remain very effective ways of deploying infrastructure cheaply at balanced risk, particularly when there aren’t great storage needs, or high availability. 

There needs to be the concept of acceptable risk, say I’ve got two DL360s (1U servers), they do only have one power supply, so if the power supply did fail, I’d be down a box, but the chances of that power supply failing over a 3yr period (typical server life span) are relatively low, the chances of both servers suffering a power supply failure are even lower. 

Grid computing/blades could be used to supplement the DL360, but there remains something cool, that a team says we need a physical box (for whatever reason), the DL360 type server remains (power and datacenter real estate aside) an efficient way of providing this, balancing budget and capacity.

The 1U server remains a useful consolidation tool for those platforms not best suited for blades, or set not to be around for the long term, replacing that proliant 1600 with modem rack the support teams use for dial in, is an ideal dl360 candidate.

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