Dell unveils blade servers for virtualisation
Published: 11 Sep 2008 17:50 BST
Dell has introduced two new blade servers, the PowerEdge M905 and M805, geared for virtualisation performance.
The company said it had achieved the number-one blade-server position in VMmark testing with its full-height, four-socket M905 PowerEdge unit. In the VMmark test, run by virtualisation company VMware, the blade server supported 11 'tiles' (the logic units that virtual machines are grouped into for testing) and 66 virtual machines.
Dell offers a choice of three hypervisors — Citrix's XenServer, VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V — while the servers can be bundled with integrated support for Hyper-V.
The price of the servers is $1,699 (£972) for the M805 and $4,999 (£2,859) for the M905.
In addition to the two servers, Dell introduced10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb fibre channel switches and mezzanine cards for increased bandwidth.
The company also announced support for software from PlateSpin, the Novell-owned company, including PlateSpin PowerConvert. PowerConvert is software that is intended to help optimise datacentres by streaming server workloads over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts and image archives, the company said in a statement.
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