New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

charles — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:22:15 GMT

Do the 1955 blades work in the 1855 chasis? I am new to blade servers and admining my first blade server. I thought I had a 1955 when it really was an 1855 with 1955 blades. I was wondering if 1855 is the chasis and 1955 is the blade or is there an 1955 chasis as well.

Thanks in advance,

Charles

re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

Tom Loisel — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:40:42 GMT

I'm curious about the heat output of the m1000e series... we're considering upgrading and moving our racks to another room... we'd need to know what the BTU output of anywhere from 1 to 16 blades would be so we can make the necessary preparations with the A/C folks... Any clues?

re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

Dennis Smith, Enterprise Liaison-Dell Community Forum — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:09:10 GMT

By using the Datacenter Capacity Planner, I am showing that the M1000e Enclosure with 16 M600 Blades Configured with 2 Xeon X5450 procs, 4gb memory, 2 hard drives, and redundant power supplies draws a total of 0.9 amps per blade and a total of 17.7 amps per enclosure. If you choose the M605 blade with 2 Opteron 2218HE procs, 4gb memory, 2 hard drives, and redundant power supplies you are looking at 0.72 amps per blade and a total of 14.58 amps for the enclosure. You can find the Datacenter Planner at the link here:

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pedge/topics/en/config_calculator?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

Andy N — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:37:39 GMT

Anyone know any more information on the power requirements of these blades? We currently use and implement alot of PE 1950's and those draw about 2.2-2.3 Amps per server (dual proc, HD, power supplies, 4GB ram) and are located in a datacenter that delivers/charges power by the amp. This model completely shot the PE 1955 out of our radar because there was no way that we would pay twice as much for 30A of 208v power and only be able to support 10 servers (same 30A circuit could handle up to 11 servers on 110v power!). The M1000e seems to have addressed some of these concerns w/ flexible options but it comes down to how much will it cost to monsters.

re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

Russ Svendsen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:41:22 GMT

My complaint is that dell advertised this as support for future generations.

And now there are no future generations. I understand technology moves on However dell could provide more here than an empty promise.

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re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

Aaron Hanson, Sr. Manager—PowerEdge Server Team — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:20:27 GMT

AHarden, Thanks for inquiring about this particular point. Let me provide some brief perspective: The PE1855/1955 was introduced in October 2004, closer to roughly 3.5 years in development. Indeed there will be no further revs of the PE1955. We made the change over to our new M-Series blades to take advantage of the latest advancements in available technology. We will be offering the PE1955 blade servers for the next two quarters to allow customers who have invested in the enclosure to take full advantage of their investment.We believe this lifecycle for the PowerEdge 1855/1955 is very much in line with what you'll see from other blade server providers.

re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

Aaron Hanson, Sr. Manager—PowerEdge Server Team — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:18:46 GMT

Hi Jim, yes we will be supporting Infiniband devices on the PowerEdge M-Series in the very near future. PowerEdge blades have long been considered an ideal platform for HPCC, in fact 4 of the top 50 super computers are run using our previous generation 1955 blades (www.top500.org)

re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

Weezie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:31:11 GMT

Wait...so first you censor my comment about using Fujitsu designs, and now it turns out this new chassis is not compatible with the 1955 architecture? This is way too funny.

re: New PowerEdge M-Series Blade Servers From Dell

aharden — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:12 GMT

Let's be clear here. From what I've read and heard, the PE1855/PE1955 infrastructure only had servers actively developed for it for about 2.5 years (being generous here). There are no new revs of the PE1955 planned, right? Supporting a blade infrastructure product with new servers for such a short period of time penalizes those who chose to invest in that product, and is not typical of Dell's competitors in this space.