On Thursday 10 of December 2009 09:37:58 Alessandro FAGLIA wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: PE genealogic tree > From: andy thomas <[email protected]> > To: Alessandro FAGLIA <[email protected]> > Cc: David Brůha <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Wed Dec 02 2009 16:28:15 GMT+0100 (ora Solare Europa Occidentale) > > > Thanks very much for this info. But how can I figure out which is the > > successor of every single PE that I have, for instance PE860, PE840 > > and so on? Guys at Dell, don't you have a roadmap hanging on the wall? > > A kind of MFC chart? ;) > > > > That would be very very useful indeed. We are looking after PE's > > ranging from 2450's & 6400's (Pentium 3) all the way up to 1950's and > > sometimes have difficulty in identifying the exact generation when > > getting spares or upgrades. > > > > How about it Dell? > > No answer so far and I fear there is no roadmap at all. Maybe too much > confidential to be exposed to this ML? >
Dear Alessandro, perhaps something like that exists perhaps not, I don't know. As it is now Dell has started to produce the 11th generation of its PE servers and has standardized it's types: 1. All of them start with one character: M = blade server R = rack server T = tower server 2. As the second comes the relative "power" of the machine going from 1 to 9 (1 is the entry level, 9 is currently for 4 socket servers). 3. The third place represents the generation: 0 = 10th generation 1 = 11th generation (Nehalem based) 4. The fourth is reserverd for the Intel / AMD diff: 0 = Intel based 5 = AMD based We are currently buying mostly the R610 servers (it has succeeded from the 1950III servers), they are 1U 2 scoket servers with redundant power supply, 6 2.5" HDD and enough slots for PERC, DRAC, Intel network card etc. The second most popular server line was the 2950 (2970), it's successor is the R710 (R715) - 2U 2 socket server. It you would want the same server as R610 in blade configuration, you would go for M610, if you would like it as tower, it would be T610. I think Dell has created a reasonably transparent system for it's servers' classification but the chart you are talking about would surely come handy. However I hope the description I gave here would be able to provide you with same basics from which you can study more. David _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
