Blade Server Design Essentials Intel expert Kundu told

These two years, in the server domain, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13737.html "> Blade server is undoubtedly the biggest bright spot." It is now supported by many manufacturers and users. Many users already know that Blade server is definitely the future of the server products, various analysis agencies this year before the forecast of the market. However, the current blade server market is still a lot of problems: for example, there is no uniform technical standards in the market, each product is not compatible with the expansion of many products and power consumption are no specific measures.





the IDF General Assembly, Mr. Aniruddna Kundu, a technical engineer from Intel, gave you a detailed description of how to design and plan your own blade server to make it a universal product for the industry as a whole.





first of all, because the blade server is a high-performance and high-density server, but also to put it in the cabinet, so some specifications are designed to be considered first. Surveys show that 50% of the cabinets in the data center can only provide power below 4KW. Therefore, this requires you in the design of the blade server maximum power at about 4KW, the maximum can not exceed 6KW.





In addition, is the blade of the internal design standards, the requirements of the blade is 1U high standard height, backplane size is also indicated that for the dual-road blade server design, preferably in 160 square inches above, so you can guarantee that there are 8 DIMM expansion slots. Also consider the product's network interface, including Ethernet, PCIe, and InfiniBand.





of course, the server design is not just hardware, but also includes software components, such as monitoring, alerting, and dynamic power management, hot plug, KVM and so on. In addition, remote start-up and management, the thermal design of models and power management, is also a very realistic problem.





Intel's design is to build a generic chassis into a blade server with different application requirements through different combinations.





Intel calculates the processor density and energy consumption, and concludes that placing 10 blades in a 8U chassis is the most reasonable design. This is the current industry with the usual 7U and 9U discrepancies, I hope that the current manufacturers pay attention to this.





In this way, you can design the blade server to meet our conventional said extensibility, versatility and manageability.





Aniruddha Kundu introduced





Aniruddha in 2001 for Intel's first blade server design engineer. Before this, he had led for ATCA? Develop a framework. Aniruddha has over 25 years of professional design experience in a variety of computer systems and component designs and has received 9 authorized patents (and a number of declared patents). He has always provided technical support to numerous national and international conferences, such as the IEEE, IEE, OIF and IDF.