Often blade solutions incorporate HBAs within each blade, and backplane connectivity, or in some cases a fabric switch providing individual HBA access for each blade. Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SMREKAR, JACK > Sent: 16 June 2004 11:59 > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: Hardware - Blades, SAN? > > While we do not have any blades I have been also thinking > about using them for some things. Depending upon the company > you use for your blades I would question if you need to use a > SAN for the storage of your apps. They are coming with > upwards of 80 gig drives and I think some of them are now > just starting to come with SCSI drives so you can mirror the > drives. I would look at purchasing them as they are and not > to worry about attaching them to a SAN. Besides I am not > sure that you could get a HBA inside one of them to attach to the SAN. *********************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and are intended for the above named recipient only. If this has come to you in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. You must take no action based on this, nor must you copy or disclose it or any part of its contents to any person or organisation. Statements and opinions contained in this email may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communications may be monitored. The registered office of Littlewoods Limited and its subsidiaries is 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB. Registered number of Littlewoods Limited is 262152. ************************************************ ******************************************************** This weeks sponsor Vizioncore, Inc. --> vc-iMonitor - Performance Monitoring, Control & Reporting --> vc-iControl - Desktop & Start Menu Management & Reporting --> vc-iMapper - Drive, Printer & COM Management & Reporting http://vizioncore.com/products.html ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm