Server That Address Many Issues: Blade Servers

By Author: Shourya Ray Chaudhuri
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Amongst all the present servers, Blade servers are considered the most due to its usability factors and various other attributes, which enables the organizations to avail them so that they could ease out on various issues related to back up and recovery. Blade servers are basically thin servers which can easily fit into a single chassis like SIM cards into cell phones. Well, each blade server is a separate server i.e. each of this server has its own processor, storage space, memory bank, network controllers, operating system and applications to support its mechanism. For being thin in comparable to many other server systems and being able to fit into any single chassis easily, the advantage of these Blade servers is evident to anyone with the task of moving hundreds of cables through racks just to add and remove servers. With the invention of certain chips, like the dual-core Xenon chips for this server system, many software companies have accentuated the ability to save money in terms of lower power consumption and increased reliability. However, the studies conducted reveal that, Blade servers can reduce power and cooling ...
... costs up to 20 to 25 percent, meeting the needs of the energy conscious customers i.e. software companies, general public etc. especially for low-power communications and embedded applications.

Blade servers enable higher density with greater ease due to the saving made with respect to precious space, which can be bought to great use for a better purpose, and with the sharing of switches and power units, it is even more possible. Large number of blades of high performance servers placed in a single chassis elevates the density factors of the Blade technology. Due to affordable density factors further expansion of this server is possible through optional modules, and all this performance and density is cost effective, making it easier for the customers to make the incomparable use of it for storing data. Elevated density aspect reduces the presence of racks i.e. the number of cables are reduced dramatically, with switches and power distribution made in smaller amount.

Along with provision of higher density, the other advantages these Blade servers provide its users is easy maintenance, which means, the Blades can be easily removed from the chassis i.e. can be easily slide outward from the chassis, along with critical components of the server being transformed into redundant or hot exchange. Apart from easy maintenance, these servers solve the issues related to manageability, scalability, power and capacity, and space constraints, along with performance and cooling. These servers are very sensitive even, as they alert the systems management processors before time, about the risk that the systems might have to face in sometime, which would leave the users aware of the disaster that is going to occur in sometime, for which they could easily take measures.

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