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When Hewlett-Packard launched the BladeSystem blade enclosures nearly seven years ago alongside its "blade everything" strategy, no one but Google was doing custom, high-density machines and it looked like blade servers would be the corporate platform of choice. And so HP built the c7000 chassis, and its smaller "Shorty" c3000 …

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  1. Lynrd
    Meh

    While they were fixing the mid-plane, it would have been awesome to maybe make the damned display so it could tilt upward - for those of us that have installed the enclosures at the bottom of the rack.

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    1. Fuzz
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      what do you use the display for?

      Don't think I've ever used the display other than setting the initial IP address when the enclosure was first installed.

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  2. Bronek Kozicki

    250ns

    That's pretty amazing, for network latency.

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  3. seven of five

    Good stuff

    If blades float your boat, the c Series is about as good as it gets. And as you´ll usually get a good deal on the maintenance it is worth considering the c instead of rack servers even if space is not a premium at your site.

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  4. Zed Zee

    Still one power connector?

    Did HP manage to update the blade's power connections while they were at it - from one to two - or is it still a single point of failure?

    "seven years ago...no one but Google was doing custom, high-density machines". Except of course, IBM, which launched its BladeCenter product way back in 2002.

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      Re: Still one power connector?

      It's not a single point of failure as there are no active components to fail on the HP Blade power supply path.

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  5. tin 2
    FAIL

    I can't STAND the new disks, impossible to get an idea of what's actually happening, for the sake of a spinny gimmick!

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