Of course they wouldn’t, blades are blades and enclosures are enclosures. It’s really not that difficult of a concept. The entire point of blades is that they’

Of course they wouldn’t, blades are blades and enclosures are enclosures. It’s really not that difficult of a concept. The entire point of blades is that they’re modular and a chassis can be filled with many different kinds of blades. Calling an enclosure a blade would be like calling a tire a car. Source: I’ve specd out and ordered literally thousands of blade servers and hundreds of enclosures from every major vendor. Edit: an even better simile would have been people who call a whole desktop computer a cpu.