How to use blade servers is the most reasonable

Blade servers have been used in a few enterprise computing centers. Today, their shadows are everywhere, from video processing computers that synthesize 3D effects, web servers, enterprise data centers, to small and medium-sized enterprises. Enterprise "small but complete" information system. It is predicted that blade servers will even begin to replace desktop computers. With the popular "blade PC" technology, more than a dozen users can simultaneously share the resources of one blade server and build multiple "virtual PCs". So the blade platform is more than just a solution for large enterprise data centers.

Blade servers are currently the fastest growing segment of the global server market. Using blades can reduce the challenges and costs of managing many small servers scattered throughout. According to Morgan Stanley's forecast, by 2009, blade servers will account for more than one-third of all server shipments.

First, the blade server is used in the enterprise

The blade server refers to a large number of hot-swappable devices called blades that can be accommodated in one chassis. A server blade is a stand-alone server that includes one or more processors and associated memory, disk storage, and network controllers, and runs its own operating system and applications. Blade servers share common infrastructure components such as power supplies, fans, CD-ROM and floppy drives, Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches, and system ports.

Using lower power processors in some blade servers can also help users save on power and cooling costs. The blade server design also includes a variety of high-availability features, such as redundant and hot-swappable components, and even the entire blade itself is hot-swappable. When you need to remove a server to maintain it, simply slide a blade out of the chassis, much like taking a hot-swap hard drive. This approach makes the implementation of the "hot standby server" strategy very simple and effective. In addition, like other types of servers, the blade can fail over to another blade through the associated configuration.

Advanced blade servers even offer a higher level of availability, eliminating the need for a single point of failure. Customers can use advanced memory protection methods and built-in mirroring to implement operating system failover. The emergence and rapid growth of blade servers may be for customers when they face servers that require more scalability, versatility, high performance, high availability, maintainability, system management and ease of deployment, and cost savings. Provide new ideas.

Although blade servers have been on the market for a long time, enterprise users are mostly on the sidelines because the first generation of blade servers have major flaws in manageability and are not computationally intensive. Although users are optimistic about their prospects, they are not planning to buy them immediately. Now, the blade server has been developed to the third generation, and many problems such as I/O bandwidth, computing density, performance, and heat have been solved. Blade servers will gradually be widely accepted by enterprise users.

More importantly, corporate IT departments can more easily manage their own servers. Reconfiguring the server through the software management tools bundled on the blade server will be easier and faster. For example, an IT administrator can use a particular blade for a Web service in an hour and quickly convert to an email service in the next hour. We can perform a reconfiguration of the blade server (operating system and its applications) within 30 minutes by simply dragging the image through the graphical interface of the remote management system.

Second, how to use blade servers is the most reasonable

We know that the use of blade servers is quite extensive, especially for computationally intensive applications, such as weather forecasting, data acquisition, data Simulation, digital image design, aerodynamic modeling, and more. For industrial applications such as telecommunications, finance, IDC/ASP/ISP applications, mobile phone base stations, video on demand, web hosting operations, lab systems, etc., blade servers can also be used.

The blade server chassis will now be larger and larger, as blade server applications are being extended from low-end tasks such as e-mail to high-end tasks such as databases. At present, blade servers have been well applied in finance, energy, high-performance computing, etc. Many domestic manufacturers have begun to enter the blade server market. Large foreign well-known server vendors such as IBM and HP have begun to enter SMEs.

For large enterprises, the energy-saving, space-saving, easy-to-deploy, and easy-to-manage features of blade servers are definitely useful because they have large computing demands and complex network structures. In the case of using a blade server is definitely a "quick knife." The current blade server is actually an upgrade of the server cluster in the past. If there is a cluster demand in a certain field, then it should also have the demand of the blade server. If the performance of a small and medium-sized enterprise is improving rapidly, if a small and medium-sized enterprise can predict the rapid development in the next few years, then in the long run, blade server is not a good choice.

The scalability of the blade server is very strong. Maybe we need a few blade servers at present, but with the improvement of the business and the development of the internal information needs of the unit, we can continue to purchase the blade as a blade server. When the chassis is filled with blades, the superiority of the blade server will be fully demonstrated. At present, major server vendors such as IBM and HP have launched a blade server-like growth solution. The procurement and application of the server is not to look at the size of the unit network, but to look at the specific application of the server, to see the long-term development trend of the enterprise. Blade servers still have a large part of the market in small and medium-sized enterprises. The key is to see how small and medium-sized enterprises can understand the relatively new things of blade servers. The blade server involves not only a few servers, but also integrates several network devices such as servers, switches, routers, etc., so that the relevant knowledge points of the after-sales service personnel and technical support engineers of the manufacturer must be very comprehensive.

At present, blade servers are increasingly moving toward SMBs, and not only in the form of separate servers, but in the form of a complete solution, which is an important factor in blade server sales. IBM has put forward the slogan "Innovation Solution, Solution in a Box", and is committed to providing customers with an integrated solution that enables customers to quickly and easily build a cost-effective IT infrastructure. Today's blade servers no longer pursue the ultimate goal of maximum density, but pursue the overall balance and scalability of the system. In the blade server design, Dawning always regards the "integration and development of cluster system" as its core design concept, and will be the node subsystem, storage subsystem, network subsystem, power subsystem, monitoring management system, KVM, etc. in the cluster system. Mature technology is effectively integrated into a new generation of blade systems.

In short, the company maximizes the rational use of blade servers mainly based on the needs of users' business development and the needs of specific industry applications, using a new generation of blade servers that incorporate more "new technologies", saving room space and energy, simplifying Server management, convenient for server upgrades, reflecting a cost-effective and highly scalable solution that meets the needs of user applications.