How the blade server should be applied to the enterprise is the most reasonable

Blade servers have been used in a handful of enterprise computing centers, and today, their shadow is everywhere, from the synthesis of 3D special effects video processing computer, Web server, Enterprise Data center, to the SME "rollout" information system. It is predicted that blade servers may even begin to replace desktop computers, and through the popular "Blade PC" technology, more than 10 users can share the resources of a single blade server and build multiple "virtual PCs". So the blade platform is by no means just a solution for a large enterprise data center.




The
Blade server is now one of the fastest growing areas of global server market share. Using blades can reduce the challenges and costs associated with managing many small servers that are dispersed across the globe. Morgan Stanley forecasts that by 2009 blades will occupy more than One-third of all server shipments.





one, blade server in enterprise application




A
blade server is a large number of hot-swappable devices, called blades, that can be accommodated in a 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. The blades are shared with common infrastructure components such as power supplies, fans, CD-ROM and floppy disk drives, Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches, and system ports.





the use of lower-energy processors in some blades can also help users save on power and cooling costs. Blade Server design also includes a variety of high-availability features, such as redundant and hot-swappable components, and even the entire blade itself has hot-swappable features. When you need to remove a server to maintain it, simply swipe a blade out of the chassis in a sliding way, which is very similar to removing a hot-swappable hard drive. This approach makes the implementation of the hot standby server policy very simple and effective. In addition, like other types of servers, blades can failover to another blade through a related configuration.





Advanced blade servers can even provide higher levels of availability to eliminate the existence of single points of failure. Customers can use advanced memory protection methods and built-in mirrors to enable failover of the operating system. The emergence and rapid growth of blades may provide new ideas for customers facing the need for more scalability, versatility, high performance, high availability, maintainability, ease of system management and deployment, and cost savings.





Although the blade server has been on the market for a long while, the majority of business users are on the sidelines, because the first generation of blade server in the manageability of a larger defect, the computational capacity is not dense enough, although the user optimistic about the prospects, but do not intend to buy immediately. And now, Blade server has developed to the third generation, I/O bandwidth, computational density, performance, fever and many other aspects of the problem has been better resolved, blade server will gradually be widely accepted by the vast number of enterprise users.





More importantly, enterprise IT departments can manage their servers more easily. Reconfiguration of the server through bundled software management tools on the blades becomes easier and quicker. For example, an IT administrator can use a specific blade for a Web service within an hour and quickly convert to an e-mail service in the next one hours. We can use the graphical interface of remote management system to drag work through a simple image file to complete the reconfiguration of Blade server (operating system and its application) within 30 minutes.





Second, the enterprise how to use Blade server is the most reasonable





we know that blade servers are widely used, especially for computational-intensive applications such as weather modeling, data acquisition, simulation, digital image design, aerodynamics modeling, and so on. And for industry applications, such as telecommunications, finance, IDC/ASP/ISP applications, mobile phone base station, video-on-demand, web host operations, laboratory systems, etc., blade Server can also be able to work.





now the chassis of the blades will grow larger, because the application of blades is being extended from low-end tasks such as e-mail to high-end tasks such as databases. At present, blade server in the financial, energy, high-performance computing has been very good applications, many domestic manufacturers have also begun to enter the blade server market. Foreign well-known server manufacturers such as IBM, HP and other large manufacturers have begun to enter small and medium-sized enterprises.





For large enterprises, blade server energy-saving, space-saving, easy to deploy, easy to manage the characteristics of the absolute is useful, because their computing demand, network structure is also more complex, in this case, the use of Blade server is absolutely "cut the Gordian Knot." Now the blade server is in fact the upgrade of the server cluster in the past, if there is a cluster in a domain needs, then it should also have blade server needs. If the performance of a small and medium-sized enterprise improves rapidly, if a small and medium sized enterprise can anticipate the development momentum in the next few years, then the blade server is not a good choice in the long run.




The scalability of the
Blade server is very strong, perhaps we currently need a few blades server, but with the promotion of business, the development of the internal information needs, we can continue to purchase blades, when a blade server chassis is filled with blades, blade server's superiority will be fully displayed. At present, IBM, HP and other server manufacturers have launched a similar blade server growth-oriented solutions. Server procurement and application is not to see the size of the unit network, but to see the specific application of the server to see the long-term development trend of enterprises. Blade server in small and medium-sized enterprises still have a large part of the market, the key is to see how small and medium-sized enterprises to understand the blade server this relatively new thing. Blade server involved not only a few servers, it integrated the server, switches, routers and other network equipment, such as the requirements of the manufacturer's after-sales service personnel and technical support engineers mastered the relevant knowledge points to be very comprehensive.





The blade server is increasingly moving toward small and medium-sized enterprises, and not just in the form of separate servers, but in the form of a complete set of solutions that are an important factor in blade sales. IBM offers the slogan "innovative solutions, in Blade Server (Solution in box)", dedicated to providing customers with integrated solutions that enable customers to quickly, easily and efficiently build cost-effective IT infrastructures. Now the blade server is no longer in pursuit of maximum density as the ultimate goal, but the pursuit of the overall system balance and scalability. In Blade server design, the "integration and development of cluster system" is regarded as its core design concept, and the mature Technology of node subsystem, storage subsystem, network subsystem, power subsystem, monitoring management system, KVM and so on in the cluster system is effectively fused to the new generation blade system.





Conclusion:





　　In short, the enterprise to maximize the rational use of Blade server is based on the needs of users ' business development and specific industry application needs, the use of integration of more "new technology" of the next generation of Blade server, save room space and energy, simplify server management, easy server upgrade needs, reflect the high cost performance and high scalability A complete set of solutions to meet user application requirements.