Blades

[zetec452]

We seem to be selling a number of HP blades at work of late. Probably due to the latest promotions.

At first I was a little sceptical about blades, eggs in one basket etc etc.

How many of you use blades? What is your general experience with them?

Jon

 

[zetec452]

What kind of blades are you using chaps? I would assume that you are hooking the ESX boxes up to a SAN of sorts?

We have a few test beds at work, the HP C3000 seems like a decent unit, not managed to put ESX on one yet but have played around with XEN. Unfortunately I didn't have any shared storage to test it with.

 

[zetec452]

Apparently the latest C class HP blades do not require specific air conditioning. I believe this was the case with older blade systems.

We have a blade running in a non airconditioned room and it seems OK. Granted it is much better to have the kit in an air conditioned room.