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HP (NYSE: HPQ) introduced Tuesday the Proliant BL495c G5, the first blade designed to be a virtual machine-intensive host in a data center rack, along with other virtualization products to enhance the offerings of VMware and Citrix Systems (NSDQ: CTXS).

As system administrators achieve savings by consolidating 8-10 virtual machines per server, HP is saying its new blade will host up to 32 virtual machines, based on each virtual machine needing a minimum of four Gigabytes of memory. When 16 of the blades are stacked in an HP C7000 enclosure, a total of 512 virtual machines can be run from a single rack, said Jim Ganthier, director of HP BladeSystem, its blade server division.

Another article talking about HP’s blade which has been adapted specifically for virtualization solutions. I need to remember and speak with one of my colleagues was talking about buying HP blades and virtualization. He was asking about the different models. I wonder how they might compare with the BL495c. I’ll need to check it out.

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