Posted By Rich Miller On March 22, 2011 @ 10:30 am In Data Center Videos | 3 Comments
What does a microserver-driven data center look like? This morning Dell’s Data Center Solutions group rolled out a new line of microservers[1] optimized for web hosting companies. Microservers provide groups of dedicated compute nodes for scenarios where multi-core CPU architecture and extensive virtualization aren’t effective solutions. As Dell’s microserver design evolved, one of the primary customers for its offering was Online.net, a large hosting company based in France. Each system runs one OS and app per server, has one 1 CPU per server and features 12 servers per chassis (see Barton George’s blog post[2] for more details). The end result is a data center with an unusual appearance. It takes a couple of minutes to warm up, but gets interesting at about the 1:30 mark. This video runs about 11 minutes.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] new line of microservers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/03/22/dell-targets-hosters-with-poweredge-microservers/
[2] blog post: http://bartongeorge.net/2011/03/21/dcs-microserver-allows-french-hoster-to-enter-new-market-and-grab-big-market-share/
