RE: Blade Servers
- From: "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:54:09 -0400
Egenera is going to be very expensive - not only are they not really =
blade servers, but they're designed more for generalized =
high-performance computing environments. Oracle was chosen as a =
strategy for them because they wanted out-of-the-box applications that =
could show a value proposition on their infrastructure (RAC being that =
application). (Full disclosure: my company competes with egenera from =
time to time, so I am certainly not an objective party, though I have =
spent a lot of time with egenera's product suite)
HP, IBM, and RLX all have decent 2-processor blades, IBM is the only one =
with a decent 4-processor (don't get me started on HP's 4-proc), and the =
only one with integrated fibre channel switching. If you're looking at =
blades to save money for development instances, I'd recommend going with =
NAS - the ability to share developer home directories, etc. across =
multiple nodes will improve productivity and remove unnecessary =
duplication of data, reducing the overall utilization.
Not to mention that, with FC running $1000/port, adding a bunch of small =
nodes to your environment can significantly increase infrastructure cost =
- gige has settled to around $150-200.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matthew Zito
GridApp Systems
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rognes, Sten
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:46 PM
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: Blade Servers
Check out the blade servers from Egenera, http://www.egenera.com/=20
They have some Oracle specific papers in the whitepaper section.
Sten
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