Malaysia VMware Communities » rack http://malaysiavm.com/blog Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:50:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cisco Transforms Rack Mount Server with UCS integration http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-transforms-rack-mount-server-with-ucs-integration/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-transforms-rack-mount-server-with-ucs-integration/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:26:28 +0000 craig http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=2172 The recent release firmware for Cisco UCS version 1.4 had enabled the support of new blade B230M1 and C series rack mount server integration allow server management from UCS manager. This is a big major changes to the IT market today. Now you will enjoy service profile functionality similar to blade system in Cisco UCS even though if you choose to deploy a rack mount base solution. Not every environment will go with blade system only, therefore Cisco UCS C series rack mount solution integrate with UCS manager is important. It is interesting to monitor the respond from others server vendor such as HP, IBM, DELL, SUN and etc  for this major improvement.

Here is the sample screen shot

]]> http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-transforms-rack-mount-server-with-ucs-integration/feed/ 0 Cisco offer R series Rack for UCS http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-offer-r-series-rack-for-ucs/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-offer-r-series-rack-for-ucs/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:13:07 +0000 craig http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=2155 This morning when I woke up, I receive an email from my counterpart regarding Cisco UCS R-Series. At first, I I thought it was just another model of blade or rack mount system Cisco had added to their product line. Once I open up the official link and found that is nothing related to the blade or rack mount base UCS machines. Is a RACK!!!! after years of Cisco UCS come into the market, there had been number of users asking why Cisco UCS does not come with their own rack? Finally, I think Cisco has the answer to the customers who had asked the similar question before. Not a bad idea to add the R series as part of the offering, which may looks cool to deploy the full set of UCS & Cisco solutions in Cisco Rack itself now.

Read more information from the official link here

]]> http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-offer-r-series-rack-for-ucs/feed/ 0 Cisco UCS C Series Rack Server http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-ucs-c-series-rack-server/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-ucs-c-series-rack-server/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:41:48 +0000 jlchannel http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=1582 Found an interesting video about Cisco UCS C Series Rack Server from Musings of Rodos.

Cisco UCS C Series Rack Server from Rodney Haywood on Vimeo.


If you have any issue with the video, probably you should check it out here or here.

]]> http://malaysiavm.com/blog/cisco-ucs-c-series-rack-server/feed/ 0 Reduce numbers of Server Racks in Data Center http://malaysiavm.com/blog/reduce-numbers-of-server-racks-in-data-center/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/reduce-numbers-of-server-racks-in-data-center/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:49:48 +0000 craig http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=1353 With my last 3 years of experience, I had seen numbers of companies require significant expansion in the data center to support the business growth, just because of the additional 200 to 2000 servers or storage shelves they need to put in to the data center. With the technology today, it does help us to reduce the space we need to slot in the servers, and storage thanks to the success of virtualization and higher capacity disk drives in the market. To run a full solution of data center with less number of server racks for SME and enterprise, will no longer be a dream due to some facts below,

  1. Higher consolidation ratio in virtualization with the latest CPU, memory and servers performance
  2. Higher capacity disk drive which significant reduce the number of storage expansion require
  3. Virtual I/O which allow the higher utilization of the available bandwidth in data center
  4. UCS to provide consolidation and higher capacity of bandwidth to support network and storage utilization in the data center

I may had not included all the facts here, but these should be good enough to point out the changing happening to the current market. I had been impressed with the IBM 3950 M2 previously but now, the Unisys alliances with VMware is another choice which provide similar features for the large environment which contains large number of machines running. The unisys Enterprise Server ES7000 could be the ideal machine in this case. 16 physical cpu sockets which contain 6 core each from Intel Xeon 7400 series of processor, and maximum of 1TB of memory with 8GB memory module in a single server. If we do a calculation, you should able to have 96 cores of CPUs in a single server. This will allow more virtual machine to be consolidated into it.

You can view here for more information about the hardware details.

So, with all the technology available, we should able to have our data center running with less number of server racks for servers, storage and networks. This had significant reduce the space require to run a data center, and allow the users to expand the life cycle of the data center in a longer term. If I have to choose to invest 1 Million on DC expansion VS 1 Million of Virtualization, servers and storage, I will definitely choose the 2nd option which provide additional capacity and reduce the space require by a data center. In a longer term, the real estate cost, power & cooling always cost us a big sum of dollars to keep the data center running.

In the near future, there will be 8 cores and 12 cores CPU in the future market. When it come to the time for us to refresh the current ESX servers which run on quad cores or 6 cores base server, the new servers capacity may be double the current servers that we using, and for sure it will allow more machine to be consolidated.

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