Randall Shimizu wrote:
So what do like and dislike about HP and IBM blades.....??
The HP iLO system is what puts them way above the IBM.
The IBM console is a java app, and it stinks.
THe CD/DVD-ROM on the IBM is hard-wired, whereas the HP has a virtual-CD
so you can attach the CD from your laptop to the system and do remote
installations
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....
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