Question RAM anyone?
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God no, it is a server, a blade server to be exact.
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Ok,
basically you invest in a chassis, then a blade server is just that, a server on a stick that plugs into the chassis. All the network/storage ports are in the chassis and are logically presented to a switching fabric. I will take some more pictures of the blades on Monday, especially the small ones which are dual cpu, lots of ram etc but fucking tiny. The chassis provides all the connectivity/power/console. The server is just cpu, ram and internal disks if required. Just that.
We have 5 chassis not fully populated and each of the fuckers weighs in excess of 80 kilos. Was fun getting those fuckers off the back of a lorry with a broken tail lift.
basically you invest in a chassis, then a blade server is just that, a server on a stick that plugs into the chassis. All the network/storage ports are in the chassis and are logically presented to a switching fabric. I will take some more pictures of the blades on Monday, especially the small ones which are dual cpu, lots of ram etc but fucking tiny. The chassis provides all the connectivity/power/console. The server is just cpu, ram and internal disks if required. Just that.
We have 5 chassis not fully populated and each of the fuckers weighs in excess of 80 kilos. Was fun getting those fuckers off the back of a lorry with a broken tail lift.
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It is an issue I have taken up with the suppliers and the couriers. I was fucking fuming. Nearly a million quids worth of kit on a fucking shit lorry. The response I have had so far is "The original lorry with a tail lift developed a fault so in order to guarantee delivery we had to use this".
To be honest it may as well have turned up on the back of a fucking bicycle.
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Blades are cool.
Except when your datacenter is badly designed. Which is when they run hot
Not much on the mezzanine at the back of that blade. I'm guessing its a fairly simple horse without much flexibility as to purpose, but good at 'a task'.
Except when your datacenter is badly designed. Which is when they run hot
Not much on the mezzanine at the back of that blade. I'm guessing its a fairly simple horse without much flexibility as to purpose, but good at 'a task'.
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The datacentre follows Cisco's requirements for running the UCS platform. Space at the rear is not needed except to plug in power and connectivity. Everything is front to back airflow and guess what, the cold isle is at the front.Blades are cool.
Except when your datacenter is badly designed. Which is when they run hot
Not much on the mezzanine at the back of that blade. I'm guessing its a fairly simple horse without much flexibility as to purpose, but good at 'a task'.
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Was more thinking of custom functions like fibre, virtual connect shizzle and stuff like that. I'm not well up on Cisco stuff so I might be way off base. I'm used to blades with custom stuff at the back end and you slot what you need.
The datacentre comment was only a general thing, not aimed at what you posted. I have experienced at times the darkside of DC design. In one case, quite literally.
The datacentre comment was only a general thing, not aimed at what you posted. I have experienced at times the darkside of DC design. In one case, quite literally.
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Cisco UCS is a unified platform. Fibrechannel and IP are are connected to the same switch.
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The blade is configured with 384GB of RAM I think (this is from memory)
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Around 384gig.
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haha nice so yours are fairly maxed out. What do you guys do that needs all that firepower? The ones we sent out were for running phone systems. I assume hosted phone systems or SIP or something.
With 24 DIMS at 32gb a pop you could max out at 768GB of ram
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Deebs was right. The fully populated blades are 384GB each. At a guess across all the UCS blades & servers & chassis it is probably around 1.5TB of RAM not including the existing kit. That's a lot of DIMMS and I may even be underestimating that total.
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Database servers and other things.haha nice so yours are fairly maxed out. What do you guys do that needs all that firepower? The ones we sent out were for running phone systems. I assume hosted phone systems or SIP or something.
With 24 DIMS at 32gb a pop you could max out at 768GB of ram
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It's the original telephone exchange, Strowger, 100% electromechanical and a Heath Robinson wet dream, entirely run by the principles of magnetic flux decay times in relays, if you rang from London to Edinburgh about 100 of those grey boxes on the right would lift and turn into place making contacts for your cct, each has about 10 relays in it, if any single contact failed in the whole chain the call dropped out, they'd lift and turn in response to the old round dials turning and repeatedly breaking a contact. You can still make a call like that today, digital exchanges recognise the old loop disconnect and if your'e really stuck you can dial 999 by shorting out the wires nine times , three times over and connecting a pair of headphones across the two wire to act as mike and earpiece.