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Some Stuff on Enterprise Virtualization from DellTechCenter

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Our shipment of four brand new PowerEdge R805 servers arrived yesterday afternoon. We got them loaded up with Quad-Core AMD Opteron 2356 2.3 GHz processors, 64 GB of RAM, and a Quad-Port Intel NIC (in addition to the four onboard NICs). I just love opening up new servers and I was pretty excited to open these up and get them in the rack - but not as excited as this.

http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/NuFWWbBCR6as_uZG8nGoQg92068/GW132H177

Here is a picture of the new servers in our lab from this morning. I have also uploaded a few more pictures in the Photo Gallery that show the inside of the R805, the included VMware ESX Server 3i, and the servers installed in the rack.

The only thing left to do now is use VMotion to get some VMs onto these systems and put them to work.

Todd

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The R805 is Here

Posted by ToddMuirhead May 8, 2008

I leave for vacation for a few days and all kinds of cool stuff is announced (although I did make it into the office a couple of times while on the beach). What I think is a really great server for virtualization is now on the website where you can configure and order it. The new PowerEdge r805 is not just a new version of the 2950 or 2970. It was designed with virtualization in mind and has the features to back it up. It has 16 memory DIMM slots, 4 embedded NICs, plus four more PCI slots, and is still only 2U.

I put together a couple of configurations on the website and the price for an r805 system with two top bin quad-core processors and 64 GB of RAM seems like a great deal to me. I guess that I'm still thinking about some of the old PowerEdge 8450 8-way servers that I tested with back in the day with a list price of over 50K, which was a good deal at the time.

Todd

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