What are the reasons for the data center to deny the blade server

The following article is mainly about seven reasons for the data center to say no to the blade server, the data center of the secret weapon, blade server in addition to their market status of hype, after the purchase also have to face the reality. Users must provide training for hardware personnel because the blades need their own blade chassis because of the extra rack space in the data center, special power supply and network connectivity. Michael Bach, chief executive of Tulsa Connect, explains 7 reasons not to buy or deploy blades in a data center: 1. The upfront cost of deploying blade data centers is high. 2. No matter how much redundancy is built into the blade server, there is a possibility that all blades are down and down. 3. For enterprise users with one or two blade centers, it may not be cost-effective to purchase spare parts (e.g., standby chassis, etc.). 4. Most blade centers have special power requirements, which may mean additional upfront costs for special cables. 5. Blade Centers typically use dedicated network adapters and KVM peripherals, and sometimes special cables or drivers are required. This is a problem with what operating system is running on your blade server. 6. Most of the 2.5-inch hard drives commonly used in blade centers are usually higher than the traditional 3.5-inch SATA hard disk failure rates used on non-blade servers (this defect is being improved over time). 7. Once you promise to use the blade Center, you will be limited by the manufacturer when you purchase the blade server, which is disadvantageous to the supplier from the price point of view. Does this mean that the blade server is limited in scope? Of course not, but replacing the current infrastructure with a blade server device is now neither easy nor cheap. The blade server and your old server are not 1:1 replacement proportions. You can't just buy a blade server, put it on a rack, and then copy the data and eliminate the old system. A single blade server system requires a chassis, its own power supply configuration system (full sealed chassis-dc power of about 2000 watts to 4000 watts) and enough free space to accommodate the chassis (7U to 12U chassis). This means that a single blade server occupies up to 7 to 10 standard 1U chassis space. Blade server is like an egg, to buy more than a dozen to economic benefits. Tilted Planet, a Chicago-wide service hosting company, Krisp Richard also did not deploy blades in their network hosting data centers. "We've been focusing on blades, but given our special power and cooling requirements, blade servers are not cost-effective," he says. Blade servers will cost us dearly to rebuild our data center. Blade strategy with the reduction of data center space and the reduction of energy consumption as the focus of data center managers and operators, enterprise users began to seek alternatives to standard 1u,2u and larger servers. The blade server chassis provides high-density computing power per unit.84 Dual-processor blade servers can be plugged into a standard chassis (IBM Blade Center E chassis). This gives a very high rate of return to the hosting company that intends to invest in the blade infrastructure. For the advantage of blade servers, Archbrooklaguna, director of infrastructure services at the New Jersey Company, is Edward Edwards. Many said: "Blade server can reduce the data center of greenhouse gas emissions, the demand for energy consumption than traditional servers, but also a superior virtualization platform, easy to manage and monitor." HP Blade Server chassis is deployed in our data center and is applied to most production servers. With the standardization of life cycle stability of blade server, Blade Server can save a lot of server purchase cost to enterprise users. Over the next few years, all new systems will be built on the blade architecture as Blade server systems become more environmentally friendly and virtualized. The increase in the utilization rate of solid-state hard disk is expected to relieve the heat generated by mechanical hard disk, reduce drive failure rate and power consumption of standard structure hard disk. Whether the blades can be used for you may depend on the user's budget and their willingness to use the technology with a bit of controversy. In addition, you may find that transferring to the blade server architecture can save you money in several different ways. Remember, these are the costs associated with the blade server system, which is not limited to the chassis and the price of the blades plugged into the chassis. The new and planned expansion of the data center should not hesitate to adopt blade architecture. A large amount of investment for standard architectures or mitigation of space limitations may take some time.