Blade Servers are one of the most efficienct ways to maximize datacenter space and capacity.
A blade-based solution offers superior density and management capabilities than standalone
servers with significantly reduced cabling complexity and greater power efficiency. Each
enclosure is architectured for non-blocking throughput on all network and I/O devices. The
modular, fault-tolerant design makes it easy for technicians to add and remove devices
without interrupting service.
MDI has several turnkey Enterprise solutions based around Blade Servers, outlined below.
Two Quad-Core Xeon 5500 CPUs, Up to 96GB of RAM,
3 x 2.5" HDDs, 4X DDR (20Gb) InfiniBand Node
MDI's BladeSpace Capabilities and Advantages
- High Computing Density: Up to 40 CPU's, 160 Cores, 640GB RAM
- Gigabit Ethernet, 10 GigE, InfiniBand DDR and QDR Support
- High Power Efficiency & Highly Effective Cooling Design
- Powerful Remote Manageability, System Monitoring, Notification
- Supports Intel® Xeon® 5500/3500 Series (Nehalem) and
AMD® Opteron™ 2000/8000 Series (Istanbul)
Advantages of BladeSpace Computing Architecture
- Up to 14 Blades in a 7U Space (double normal rack density)
- Drastically Reduced Cabling and Lower Power Consumption Than Conventional Racks
- Hot-Plug & Redundant for High Scalability and Mission Critical Deployments
- High Availability N+1 Redundant Power Supplies, Energy-Efficient (93%)
- Consolidated Power and Cooling Across 10/14 Servers
- Variety of Blade Servers for high-end and low-cost applications
- Oriented Towards Both Datacenter and Office-centric Environments
- Datacenter Blades
- 14 Dual Processor blades in 7U
- Up to 672 CPU cores in a standard 42U Rack
- 3x SAS/SATA drives per server blade, RAID support
- Office Blades
- 10 Dual Processor blades in 7U, 20 Quad-Core Xeon processors
- Low noise (50dB for 10 servers)
- 2x SAS/SATA drives per server blade, RAID mirror support
Green Computing
With BladeSpace servers, you can help preserve not only our green planet, but keep red ink
off your books with green cash savings. A BladeSpace server can save more than 100 watts
over a traditional discrete 1U rack-mount server. These savings add up quickly when your
BladeSpace chassis is fully populated with 10 servers. By eliminating the overhead in 1U
discrete servers and using the high efficiency (up to 93%) power supplies, BladeSpace can
save you $700-$1,000 per year in power* for your servers and even more when you add the
reduced cooling costs. At the same time, you will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions
by over 5.5 metric tons**, the equivalent of planting 1.7 acres of trees.
*Your electricity costs will vary by location. **According to Energy Information Agency
(a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy), saving one kilowatt hour of
electricity reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 1.43 pounds.
Remote Manageability
The chassis management module (CMM) provides total remote control of individual
server blades, power supplies, cooling fans, and networking switches remotely. System
administrators enjoy the management ease and reassurance of continuous onboard instrumentation
monitoring (temperature sensors, power status, voltages and fan speed). Remote power control
capabilities to reboot and/or reset the server are available as well as remote access to the
BIOS configuration and operating system console information vial SOL (Serial over LAN) or
embedded KVM capabilities. Because the controller is a separate processor, all monitoring
and control functions operate flawlessly regardless of CPU operation or system power-on status.