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.
HP cranks up bandwidth on BladeSystem sheaths, adds pretty platinum stripe
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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Tuesday 19th February 2013 20:54 GMT 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.