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Configuring a Density System
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flexibility of the Density Series system provides
you with the opportunity to configure a system
that best meets your projects requirements. The only difference in
configuring a Density System from a typical
servers is that a Density System contains
multiple server blades. Everything else is
about the same.
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- Quantity and
performance of each server blade.
- Server blades can be
mixed to provide the level of performance
required for each application. For instance, it
is possible to mix PentiumŪ III blades with Dual
processor blades in the same chassis. The same is
true of Celeron™ blades. Because each blade
is completely independent from its neighbors,
blades can be mixed and matched to the project
requirements.
- RAM memory for
each blade.
Different applications require different amounts
of RAM memory. Each blade's memory can be varied
or standardized across a group of blades. Memory
capacity will vary from 512MB to 2GB.
- Hard drives for
each blade.
Though most chassis
options support a single driver per blade, as many a
three can be support in some configurations.
- Pentium III and
Celeron blades support ATA drives. Dual processor
blades and some single Pentium III blades support
SCSI drives. Also the Dual processor blade
supports optional internal hardware RAID 5 with
as many as 3 drives.
- Operating
systems for each blade.
- Because blades are
independent, it is possible to mix and match
operating systems to the application. If a
project requires two servers to be NT or Win2000,
four more to be Linux, another to be UNIX and the
last one to be Solaris, they can all coexist
peacefully.
- PCI expansion
slots for each blade.
- Some servers require
expansion slots – others do not. Some
projects need additional network interfaces,
external RAID or telephony applications require
specialized cards. Cubix offers a PCI slot with
most server blades. There are chassis options
that provide two or four PCI slots per blade.
There is a density trade-off – if you need
more expansion slots, the fewer blades can be
hosted in the chassis.
- Optional remote
management console.
If a GlobalVision
console is added to the configuration, a supervisor
processor blade must also be added to support the
console. This blade usually doesn’t require a
very powerful processor or large hard drive. A single
supervisor blade will support as many as 254
processor boards or 32 chassis. It does not require a
PCI slot but does require the Microsoft NT
Workstation or Server operating systems.
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