2. INTRODUCTION
A blade server is a server computer with a modular
design optimized to minimize the use of physical space,
cost and energy.
Together, blades and the blade enclosure form the
blade system.
3. COMPONENTS OF BLADE SERVER
Blade Enclosure
Server Blades
Power
Cooling
Networking
4. COMPARISON BETWEEN RACK SERVER
AND BLADE SERVER
Rack Server Blade Server
1. Only one server is mounted inside a
rack.
1. User can increase or decrease
server blades in a rack according to
his/her requirement.
2. It takes more physical space. 2. It takes less physical space.
3. It takes lot of energy. 3. It takes less energy.
4. eg.: Small or medium businesses. 4. eg.: Web hosting, Virtualization,
cluster computing.
5. USES OF BLADE SERVER
Web Hosting
Virtualization
Cluster Computing.
6. MANUFACTURER OF BLADE SERVER
Supermicro (Independent professional computer manufacturer)
HP
IBM
DELL
ORACLE
7. CONCLUSION
Blade servers are used by big companies where a lot of
work of computation is to be done.
They save the lot of physical space, energy and money.
