-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: PE genealogic tree From: David Brůha <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Alessandro FAGLIA <[email protected]> Date: Thu Dec 10 2009 18:10:50 GMT+0100 (ora Solare Europa Occidentale) > 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. >
This is mostly what I understood by myself, and I am glad to have such confirmation from you (except the last digit). Sincerely. -- AF _______________________________________________ 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
