Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : virtual machines

Virtually (and literally) #1

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:41:00 GMT

This week we released VMMark results for the new HP BL490c G6 server blade. The scores establish the BL490c as the highest performing 2-socket server blade for virtualization -- eclipsing blades offered by IBM, Dell, and Cisco. By the way, this 2-socket...(read more)

Virtual Connect now helps converge infrastructure (and lower costs) even more!

kendallmblog — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:41:00 GMT

On Monday, April 20 th , we announced a new Virtual Connect family member and expanded capabilities for all Virtual Connect products. We’ve see a great deal of momentum building behind virtualization and infrastructure convergence - and these enhancements...(read more)

Why it's time to think virtualized infrastructure, not just servers.

newtonja — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:55:00 GMT

Just like 'nature abhores a vacuum', it seems that 'IT hates unbalance'. Thinking 'virtual server-only' leads to ad hoc virtualization and unbalance across your architecture and organization. ...(read more)

Aaron Delp Busts Blade Power Myths

newtonja — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:06:00 GMT

Aaron Delp has started a series on blades titled "Blades and Virtualization Aren't Mutually Exclusive" where he shares a ton of personal research and experience with blades. Check out his first two articles where he busts the blade power myths....(read more)

ESX now supports Virtual Connect Flex-10

newtonja — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:32:00 GMT

We've had a few questions in our forums and blogs about when the 'official' word would come from VMware on Virtual Connect Flex-10 support. It finally made its way to the documents online over the holidays. http://www.vmware.com/resources...(read more)

10Gb Ethernet: Divide and Conquer with Virtual Connect Flex-10

Gary Thome — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:53:00 GMT

Moore's law has usually been used to predict general trends in semiconductors. While not exactly a perfect analogy, we have seen trends in interconnect bandwidth increase. Ethernet has seen bandwidth increase ten-fold every few years, with the latest transition to 10Gb. Usually these transitions take a while because the costs to transition are high, and the transition to 10Gb has followed that trajectory - until now. ...(read more)

Introducing the world's first virtualization blade

newtonja — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:16:00 GMT

If you were going to build a server blade for virtual machines from the ground up, what would it look like? That's the question we posed to the blade engineering team. The ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade was their answer. ...(read more)