Are you caught up on all the new Dell product announcements and news? Just in the past few weeks, we’ve introduced nine new PowerEdge blade, rack-mount and tower servers updated with Intel’s new Xeon 5600 “Westmere-EP” series of processors, new PowerEdge™ C-Series cloud servers, and the AIM (Advanced Infrastructure Manager (Scalent)) solution…. to name a few. This chat will take a step back and answer any questions on specific new products, as well as discuss the big picture of it all and where we see large enterprise solutions going form here.

Our featured guest is Eric Kuzmack. Eric is a Dell Strategist in the Product Group working on Dell's Virtual Era strategy. Prior to joining Dell, Eric spent 15 years at Gannett Co., a Fortune 500 media company and the publisher of USA TODAY. At Gannett, Eric was responsible for server, storage, virtualization, and directory services architectures. He began the production deployment of virtualization at Gannett in 2002, has presented at serveral VMworld conferences, and was a founding member of the VMware customer council.

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“Dell Unveils Open Solutions for the Virtual Era” press release New system management features and new Dell PowerEdge servers press release


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Dell-ScottH Welcome to this week's chat.
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Dell-KongY Our featured guest is here, Eric Kuzmack, Dell Strategist.
Dell-ScottH We'll get started in just a few, give some time to join.
JasonPowell Let me shoot a tweet.
Dell-ScottH Thanks!
dbhakta93 What link should I click on?
Dell-ScottH Nothing to click on yet, about to kick it off.
JasonPowell Any thoughts on making this chat a real voice chat down the road?
larstr Voice or maybe even video?
Dell-ScottH Maybe!
Dell-KongY Jason, it's under consideration. :)
Dell-KongY Let's get the chat started.
JasonPowell Sometimes it's hard to convey really geeky stuff via text.
Dell-ScottH The transcripts give us some Google juice.
Dell-KongY A few administrative things before we begin.
Dell-ScottH True.
larstr You can have a text chat even if you do voice or video.
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JasonPowell I think I was paying $10/hour for podcast transcriptions.
Dell-KongY If there are any links, please right click links; otherwise, you will get kicked out of chat.
Dell-ScottH Jason, how many hours did it take for one hour podcast?
Dell-KongY Today's chat will cover Dell's Solutions for the Virtual Era.
JasonPowell Hmm... that’s a good question.
JasonPowell It was a flat fee for our church. Its podcasts were around one hour and we paid $10 per podcast.
Dell-ScottH All, I think that would be worth it.
Dell-KongY So Eric, for the folks online, can you please summarize Dell's vision around Solutions for a Virtual Era?
Dell-ScottH Yeah, "Solutions for Virtual Era" seems a little marketing-speak to me. :-)
Dell-ScottH Can we break that down into some components we can grasp?
EricK-Dell Luckily, I'm not a marketing person!
Dell-ScottH Yeah!
EricK-Dell Here's the press release, and I'll break it down into the major food groups for you: http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/2010-3-24-solution-virtual-era.aspx
EricK-Dell Basically, we've announced some specific products around servers, storage and virtualization to address a lot of the buzzword stuff coming from other vendors.
Tom_Howarth What we talking about today?
Dell-ScottH We’re covering some of the recent announcements in our "Solutions for a Virtual Era."
Dell-ScottH As a hardware guy, I most like the PowerEdge C6100 Rack Serve: http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/poweredge-c6100/pd.aspx?refid=poweredge-c6100&cs=555&s=biz
EricK-Dell The new Dell DX Object Based Storage System, new cloud optimized servers "PowerEdge-C", and provided some vision towards the future to how we'll be developing Intelligent infrastructure, simplifying administration in a virtualized environment, and some other interesting stuff.
JasonPowell Yeah, I'm having trouble understanding what a "cloud optimized" server really does different than the PowerEdge R710s Rack Server sitting in our rack.
Dell-ScottH Eric, can you tell us a little more about "intelligent Infrastructure"?
ronsdavis Why not list the PowerEdge C6100 in the Small and Medium Business section on Dell's site? My company is SMB, and I see this as a great fit for a company that doesn't want to start down the blade path just yet.
EricK-Dell I'll start with the SMB question.
EricK-Dell The major differences between the "regular" PE systems and the PE-C systems are around management. The PE-C systems only support Intelligent Platform Management Interface. There is no Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, no life cycle controller, no OpenManage Server Administrator/Dell Management Console, etc.
EricK-Dell These systems are targeted at environments where individual nodes are irrelevant, and redundancy and scalability is in the application layer.
EricK-Dell PE-C systems also are more heavily power optimized, because the types of workloads that would run on them tend to have less variance than a more generally targeted server.
EricK-Dell Intelligent Infrastructure is certainly a bit buzz-wordy.
Tom_Howarth So the PowerEdge C6100 Rack Server - what is the entry point and what are the specifications?
EricK-Dell What it really means is that we are enhancing the capabilities of the iDRAC /Lifecycle Controller to allow for considerably more out of the band control of a system - things like firmware updates will be done out-of-band, which will simplify how you will need to do patching in the future. There are some other things that we are doing that I can't really talk about in a public forum. :-)
EricK-Dell Tom, the specifications can be found in the link that Scott posted earlier.
EricK-Dell The entry point depends on the type of application, not the size of the business.
Dell-ScottH LCC = Lifecycle Controller = http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/lifecycle+controller
JasonPowell So these are not built for VM clusters?
EricK-Dell They could be used for VM clusters, and they will be certified for certain hypervisor platforms. The key comes down to the application(s) in question.
EricK-Dell And the management required.
Tom_Howarth Just checking them out - looks nice, can you send me one to play with? :D
Dell-ScottH PowerEdge 6100's are on VMware HCL.
EricK-Dell Tom, just send me a purchase order and we'll talk!
Tom_Howarth :( Was hoping for extended evaluation. LOL.
ronsdavis What price range is the PowerEdge C6100 coming in at?
Tom_Howarth So, are these available?
EricK-Dell The PowerEdge C6100 Rack Server is definitely viable for a VM cluster in a box. The key is simply to understand the differences between PE-C and traditional PE systems and make sure those differences are OK. PE-C does not have the wide range of add-on adapters, etc. that traditional PE has, for example.
EricK-Dell You'll need to check with your sales rep on pricing. I'm in the product group so they don't let me near revenue. :-)
erson Can you actually buy a single server from the C-series? It was my understanding that you only sold them in larger batches.
ronsdavis In this case, buying one would be buying four. :)
larstr So the PE-C range is a budget range of servers compared to PE then?
EricK-Dell Erson, I'm not 100 percent sure if you can buy them in the quantity of one. I believe you can, but don't quote me on that.
Dell-ScottH Ron, you'll have to check with your sales representative, or use the “Contact Us” on this page - http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/poweredge-c6100/pd.aspx?refid=poweredge-c6100&cs=555&s=biz
Dell-ScottH Don't think anyone here knows pricing. It’s all free to us. :-)
EricK-Dell Larstr, I wouldn't think of them as budget range. While they are cost optimized for cloud types of environments, there are features in regular PE that aren't in these servers. A comparison of PC-C to the low-end of traditional PE would still find PE-C "higher."
Dell-ScottH Yes, I think the point is to make these systems available to the masses. We had them in the past just for our largest of largest customers, but now we’re bringing them to a wider audience.
JasonPowell Hope us channel guys get some good docs to differentiate PE/PE-C.
Dell-ScottH Eric, can you tell us a little about the Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager?
EricK-Dell The other differentiators in the PE-C line are the mechanicals - obviously with the PowerEdge C6100 Rack Server, but also with the 1U, 10 HDD server.
Tom_Howarth Are the drives shared storage between the four servers or dedicated?
Dell-ScottH They’re dedicated.
larstr I think I get it now. These servers are kind of like half-way blade servers in a box.
erson I'm actually not that impressed by the C-series. Super Micro has sold such servers in the retail market for quite some time.
Dell-ScottH Kind of, but theirs don’t have shared chassis management. They each have their own dedicated BMC/IPMI interface.
EricK-Dell On the PowerEdge C6100, drives are dedicated to each server. Think of it as four completely separate servers that share the chassis, power, etc.
ronsdavis I have a nice Super Micro server with one half of it shut off because it keeps failing. At least with the PowerEdge C6100, I could change out the broken server.
Dell-ScottH Erson, so being first means being better? I don't think Apple was first to the Mp3 player market. :-)
larstr Eric, if they had shared the SAS-bus this would have been even more interesting.
EricK-Dell Scott, actually, Super Micro wasn't first. Our Data Center Solutions group was.
Dell-ScottH Yes, that is true.
erson Scott, no, but if it was the first time I saw a 2U quad node server I would be far more impressed. :)
EricK-Dell Larstr, it's something under consideration.
Dell-ScottH Erson, I agree.
Dell-ScottH Perked ears! Shared disk under consideration - now that would be interesting.
erson Apparently the DCC has about 40 of these special server designs. It’s nice to remove the veil somewhat and make three of them available to "ordinary" companies.
Dell-ScottH Well I don't think some would be of interest to most people, they’re “Franken-servers.” :-)
EricK-Dell Erson, that's exactly the idea, take some of the more popular custom DCS hardware and make it available publicly.
erson SAN+4 nodes in 2U would be cool.
Dell-ScottH ++
erson Good, then I've understood the Dell marketing people. :)
erson So, what about Remote Management Services?
Tom_Howarth If the disk were shared between the four servers that would make these an awesome piece of kit, something like 4 servers plus an EqualLogic is a 2U chassis.
EricK-Dell Tom, it's certainly been discussed. That's all I can say.
erson Remote Management Services - Dell Remote Infrastructure Monitoring allows IT departments to monitor critical remote systems for hardware and software faults, performance degradation, missing patches and security vulnerabilities, and remotely remediate problems.
EricK-Dell Erson, what would you like to know?
erson Is RMC anything else than DMC and OMSA?
EricK-Dell Actually, RMC has little to do with DMC & OMSA.
EricK-Dell But it does leverage OMSA.
Tom_Howarth So, how is the disk currently distributed between the servers?
Erson Is it an actual software or what?
EricK-Dell Erson, stand by.
EricK-Dell Tom, the disks are divided equally between the four servers - either 3 or 6 HDD per server depending on 3.5" or 2.5" HDD.
Tom_Howarth So, what is the maximum capacity of the disks?
larstr Tom, "up to 12tb2 Sata or 24tb2 nearline SAS."
Dell-ScottH 2.5 inch 6Gb SAS (10K rpm): 300gb2 2.5 inch 6Gb SAS (15K rpm): 146gb2 2.5 inch 6Gb nearline SAS (7.2k rpm): 500gb2 2.5 inch Sata (7.2k rpm): 160gb2, 250gb2, 500gb2 3.5 inch 6Gb SAS (15K rpm): 300gb2, 450gb2, 600gb2 3.5 inch 6Gb nearline SAS (7.2k rpm): 1tb2, 2tb2 3.5 inch Sata (7.2k rpm): 500gb2, 1tb2, 2tb2
EricK-Dell Thanks, Scott.
EricK-Dell I'd like to switch to Erson's RMC question now.
Tom_Howarth Nice, very nice indeed.
Erson PowerEdge C6100 specs: http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/poweredge-c6100/pd.aspx?refid=poweredge-c6100&s=biz&cs=555
BackupAdmin I know OMSA (OpenManage Server Administrator) and DMC, (Dell Management Console). What does RMC stand for?
EricK-Dell It's an agent that sits on pretty much any Windows box. I believe the new name is Proactive Remote Management - but I'm not in marketing - I really only know the code names. :-)
BackupAdmin Ok, thanks.
BackupAdmin Does it support Linux and/or VMware also?
Dell-ScottH Is there a link that has more details?
Tom_Howarth It is on the VMware HCL for Vsphere 4.0 U1.
EricK-Dell The agent communicates with the OMSA agent on your servers and links the information back to a Web portal where you can get information about your servers, such as warranty expiration, create trouble tickets, etc. I'm going to have to dig up the URL to post here.
Dell-ScottH That’s a good reason to upgrade to Vsphere!
EricK-Dell Note that it does not support ESXi because VMware doesn't provide any interfaces that we can use to do things like generate a Dset package, etc.
larstr No ESXi support? I hear Vsphere 4.1 will be ESXi only so you need to provide a solution for that.
BackupAdmin So the agent loads in the console operating system for ESXi?
erson OOoo, code names, gimme gimme! ;)
Tom_Howarth Larstr, you heard wrong.
EricK-Dell The agent loads on a Windows box - nothing needs to be installed on the ESX console or any other servers.
EricK-Dell There’s only one agent per environment.
larstr Tom, OK. I thought it was strange too as the RC is not ESXi only.
larstr Nevertheless, ESXi is the future.
BackupAdmin Excellent
Tom_Howarth 5 is the slated date for Classic retirement! :S
BackupAdmin If nothing is loaded on ESX though, then the API is the same.
EricK-Dell As you would expect, we are working with VMware to enable what we need for ESXi.
erson Eric, is RMC for "free"?
EricK-Dell Erson, I'm not sure. They keep me away from pricing.
EricK-Dell But I believe that some of it comes via your Pro support contract.
EricK-Dell I'd like to change topics for a minute, so let me throw something out to the crowd along the lines of integration of Dell hardware and VMware.
EricK-Dell I'm curious what sort of features you all would want if we were to develop a Vcenter plug-in to manage Dell hardware.
Dell-KongY Now's the chance to ask for what you want. :)
JasonPowell All of them?
JasonPowell :-)
Dell-KongY Go for it, Jason.
JasonPowell I'm pinging the IRC room.
BackupAdmin Hardware monitoring…
BackupAdmin Disk, memory…
BackupAdmin Processor…
JasonPowell Environmental stuff…
BackupAdmin Temperature…
JasonPowell Since we're having heat issues!
larstr Power consumption and regulation…
BackupAdmin How far up the stack do you want?
EricK-Dell Backupadmin, give me your wildest dreams and fantasies!
BackupAdmin Well, the holy grail is memory ballooning.
BackupAdmin And seeing where the bottlenecks are.
larstr Backupadmin, that is the holy grail?
BackupAdmin No, but just throwing it out there.
larstr :)
EricK-Dell Backupadmin, is that something that as the hardware platform we've got visibility into?
BackupAdmin It’s a function of ESX interoperating with hardware.
BackupAdmin The kernel is the scheduling engine for the hardware processes.
larstr Eric, all those things above here should be possible.
EricK-Dell OK, I hear you. Keep typing those ideas!
JasonPowell We're also seeing some strange proc reports inside of Vcenter.
BackupAdmin Correlation of all those variables with the other systems is the important part though.
larstr IBM servers even provide a height sensor with info to Vcenter, but not that I've found any use cases for it yet.
BackupAdmin I want to know if a system is not utilizing its allocation.
EricK-Dell Height sensor?
EricK-Dell You mean how high off the floor a server is?
ronsdavis From sea level, or floor level?
BackupAdmin How tall the administrator is that is using it
larstr I don't really know from what level. All I know is that I can read out that info from Vcenter.
EricK-Dell OK, I think we've picked on him enough. :-)
ronsdavis The problem with altimeters is they are easily affected by barometric pressure.
EricK-Dell What else do you want? I've got physical/environmental monitoring; memory monitoring.
Tom_Howarth Exactly one day you are showing sea level the next you are drowning
erson Dell Unveils Open Solutions For The Virtual Era
erson So, what are the "open solutions"?
JasonPowell It’s IRC.
JasonPowell It would be *sweet* if the Dell hardware monitoring/management would integrate into VMware, instead of requiring another piece <sross|desktop> fan status, notification of warning/failures, etc.
EricK-Dell Jason, that's the concept of a Vcenter plug-in.
EricK-Dell Erson, so if you think about Cisco USC, and HP Matrix, you are pretty locked into their platforms.
EricK-Dell The Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager provides many of those dynamic network features, but supports Dell, IBM, and HP servers, multiple vendors’ network switches, etc.
BackupAdmin Does the AIM plug into Microsoft SCOM?
EricK-Dell Not yet.
EricK-Dell Wow, that hour passed by quickly!
BackupAdmin So if we are using Microsoft SCOM, how do we get hardware alerts from Dell for Vmware?
Dell-KongY Thank you kindly, Eric, for your time.
Dell-KongY And thank you to all the participants for a lively discussion.
Dell-KongY Great Q&A session!
erson Eric, great work!
EricK-Dell Thanks everyone. Sorry I couldn't get to all of your questions!
Dell-ScottH Thanks so much for your time Eric, that was some great discussion.
erson Backupadmin: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/scom+-+system+center+operation+manager
Dell-ScottH ++ on Ersons answer – Backupadmin, the Dell IT team monitors discussions on that page and they manage all our stuff (the larger Dell) with Systems Center and could probably chime in with what they do.
erson Can we expect more server-centric Intel Xeon 6500/7500 chats later?
erson If you go for the lower end CPU’s they aren't that bad pricewise actually.
Dell-ScottH Sure, if that's what you want - specific systems?
larstr Do you know if you can buy this box not fully loaded? Maybe with 2 or 3 "servers"?
erson So they should be in the reach for a much bigger segment that the older Xeon MP architectures especially with the new focus on just using 2 CPU-sockets.
larstr And purchase as you go.
erson Larstr, the PowerEdge C6100?
Tom_Howarth I would still like to know the target price.
larstr Price is always important to many customers.
larstr Erson, yes, since it has four server nodes.
erson Scott, well, I enjoy hardware so I could talk about that for ages. But I'm guessing the three new servers should be at least be worthy of one chat.
erson Larstr, I would be extremely surprised if you could buy anything else than a fully loaded 4 node C6100.
larstr Erson, yes, but I still see a few customer cases where 4 nodes would be overkill, at least initially.
Dell-ScottH Larstr, Tom, let me ping a buddy in sales to see if I can get a "list" price.
Dell-ScottH And if you can get it with 1,2,3 or 4 nodes - or does has to be 4?
erson Larstr, yes, but as said, these servers aren't meant for SMB.
larstr Erson, still for many SMB’s this could potentially replace their whole Data Center. DC in a box!
JasonPowell That's a little scary for a SMB to have all eggs in one basket.
erson Yeah, I know what you're thinking. But unfortunately it's not what Dell is thinking about these C-series server at this time. At least that how I have interpreted the new PE C-servers.
Dell-ScottH He's calling.
erson And a SMB wouldn't want to say goodbye to all the current embedded management goodness.
Dell-ScottH The BMC controller is not too bad on those boxes.
JasonPowell It'll be interesting to see how the C stuff fits in.
Dell-ScottH It has remote KVM.
Tom_Howarth Erson, they may not be meant for the SMB market, but the law of unintended consequences is kicking in and depending on price point they are a serious contender for a SMB Data Center.
Dell-ScottH Still waiting on my guy to call. He said should be off his other call in a second.
erson Like Erick said. These servers are for large data center deployments when the nodes themselves aren't important. You have an application layer about it that can handle redundancy and error management. Large cloud operators like Microsoft and others are the target for the DCC servers. These three are brought into the public to inspire smaller companies that are looking into making their own private cloud.
erson I can imagine these could be pretty nice for HPC clusters as well. Rendering farms as well.
Dell-ScottH Maybe get you guys a ballpark number
erson This is of course just my interpretation, hopefully the TechCenter guys correct me if I'm wrong on something.
Dell-KongY Erson, you're on point.
Dell-KongY HPC clusters, web farms, but engineers are engineers.
Dell-KongY :)
Dell-KongY You have some flexibility but you have to weigh the pros and cons.
larstr Erson, I see your point, and while those may be the targets, as a virtualization guy, I always think of ways such systems can be utilized in VMware environments.
Dell-KongY Cloud infrastructure is another use case i.e. compute and memory resource.
larstr And, Blade Centers are too expensive for many SMBs, so this could (?) be a cheaper entry point to multiple servers with tight space density.
erson Larstr, yeah, I am one too. We went for the PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis and we have less than 40 employees.
Dell-ScottH OK, so the PowerEdge C6100 is not loaded with SKUs in the configurator yet. He's going to do me a favor and try to get some pricing. Ping me on Twitter and I'll DM you guys tomorrow if I get it.
Tom_Howarth Thanks for that, Scott.
erson With at least 3-4 years lifespan left of the PowerEdge M1000e and going with full height servers (that are probably most suitable for virtualization) you can only fit 8 servers.
Tom_Howarth What is the BTU of a fully populated one of these?
Dell-ScottH Let me pull up the tech docs on the internal site.
erson The PowerEdge C server line does not come with features you don’t need like comprehensive systems management, broad enterprise storage, or same-day support.
erson Ouch, no same day support.
larstr Oh. Not good.
erson http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-c6100-spec-sheet-en.pdf
erson If these weren't a Dell chat we could talk about competitors virtualization-in-a-box solutions... ;)
Dell-ScottH Tom, 4 nodes with 1100watt power supplies. The Max BTU output is listed at 4575 Btu/hr.
Tom_Howarth Cheers!
erson Cool, that the minimum is 470watt PSUs and four nodes. That's impressive.
Dell-ScottH 470W supplies are only for 2 node configurations.
erson OK.
erson But why would you only have 2 nodes in a C6100? Seems to defeat the point with it.
Dell-ScottH I agree, but we never know what you guys want to do.
erson I would like to see all the other special server designs that the DCC offers. Just for the kick of seeing some odd designs. :)
erson Or at least some non-conventional thinking.
erson PSU’s with built in UPS, can I have that? :)
Dell-ScottH Just tell the local Dell representative you are starting the rival to Google and want a peek.
larstr Erson, only Google has that in their servers.
erson Yeah, great idea.
Dell-ScottH That’s a hell of an idea.
erson Larstr, how do you know?
Tom_Howarth PSUs with UPS, that would be some serious battery technology. :D
Dell-ScottH Anyone doing that?
erson Google is!
Dell-ScottH It would likely melt.
Dell-ScottH Do you have a link?
erson There are YouTube videos about it.
Dell-ScottH I’m searching.
erson http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
erson Great pictures there instead of the grainy video.
Dell-ScottH I’m already there. :-)
Dell-ScottH It’s a “Franken-computer.”
Dell-ScottH "Google's first experiments had some rough patches, though, Clidaras said. For example when they found the first crane they used wasn't big enough to actually lift one."
Tom_Howarth Yeah, that's some odd low-tech computer.
Dell-ScottH Of course: "Google has patents on the built-in battery design, ‘but I think we'd be willing to license them to vendors,’ Hoelzle said."
Tom_Howarth Yeah right, check the posting date.
Dell-ScottH It’s April 1.
Tom_Howarth Think about it logically, how much battery power is needed to keep a single server up for enough time just to power it down cleanly?
erson OK, check this video then: http://www.greenm3.com/2009/04/googles-ben-jai-discussing-12v-integrated-ups-server-and-other-features.html
erson I'm quite sure the aren't pulling pranks on their own Efficient Data Center Summit.
Tom_Howarth A 12 volt battery???
ronsdavis They use the same batteries you find in a UPS.
erson Google has been talking about 12v only for servers for ages.
larstr The CNET article probably got their info from this seminar and it's not a joke: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/04/01/roughnotesdatacenterefficiencysummit.aspx
erson Because of the losses during conversion to 3.3, 5 and 12.
ronsdavis If you run everything at 12v, and run DC to the servers, you remove a power conversion and save somewhere around 15% power.
ronsdavis Lucasfilm runs everything DC as well.
Tom_Howarth Ok so you run CPU and Memory at 12 volts what about HDD?
ronsdavis Maybe you don't have an HDD.
Dell-ScottH I’m watching the video now. He says the motherboard converts to 5V that run the drives.
ronsdavis The big power conversion issue is going from AC to DC.
Dell-ScottH "Adds some costs to motherboard, but money is saved on Powersupplies."
Tom_Howarth Ok so 12 volts Dc, what's the wattage?
erson What was that CPU they were using in that video, Scott?
Tom_Howarth Can't be Nehalem! :D
Dell-ScottH Not sure, he said "Intel - but not Nehalem."
Dell-ScottH Interesting, thanks for taking me down this path, Erson. I have to run.
erson Me too!
larstr As nehalem was launched about that date of that info it may not have been used in that video.
Tom_Howarth Judging on the look of the memory I would say 486’s they look like SIMMs not DIMMs.
Tom_Howarth Apparently the MB is Xeon capable.
Joseph Why on earth is it so hard to find information on the iDRAC6 and Express vs. Enterprise? Anyone have a good link?