So what do like and dislike about HP and IBM blades.....?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PC blades Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:12:41 -0700
> > Randall Shimizu wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on PC blades. IBM (HP and > > Clearcube make PC blades also ) > > (http://news.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=/10-5-0&fp=435e179035481b19&ei=HP5eQ6nXL8Oa6wH259HkCA&url=http%3A//www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml%3FarticleID%3D172303304&cid=1101960915 > > ) has announced a new solutions offering with their Bladecenter > > product. IBM has partnered with VMware to offer a virtualized > > desktiop environment. According to IBM they can host from 10-15 > > clients on each blade. IBM"s solution is a VMware Citrix client for > > those in the Windows group. 20 clients is what I heard on linux > > terminal services. > > > > So the question then becomes is the blade the right platform ....??? > > After all 10-20 not all that much. Would not a large SMP machine be > > much more suitable.....?? Now of course scalability is entirely > > different for Linux and Window, but does raise some interesting roi > > questions.... > > I've used both IBM's and HP's blade systems at work. > I currently have the IBM's, but I preferred the HP's > I run vmWare's ESX product on each blade, and have 7 guest OS's > (all linux) on each, giving me about 80 hosts (IIRC) > > I don't remember the cost, but I think it was something like $90k ? > So if that's correct, it runs about $1k/host > But that's more a vmWare ROI than a blade-center ROI answer.... > > -- Michael O'Keefe | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Live on and Ride a 03 BMW F650GSDakar| [EMAIL PROTECTED] / | > I like less more or less less than |Work:+1 858 845 3514 / | > more. UNIX-live it,love it,fork() it |Fax :+1 858 845 2652 /_p_| > My views are MINE ALONE, blah, blah, |Home:+1 760 788 1296 \`O'| > blah, yackety yack - don't come back |Fax :+1 858 _/_\|_, > -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
