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What's the definition of a blade? I thought it was a diskless server but this one used to have a hard drive.
by guard-of-terra 12y ago
What's the definition of a blade? I thought it was a diskless server but this one used to have a hard drive.
- wmf 12y agoMaking diskless servers work is too complex for most admins, so blades are generally sold with disks. Blades are generally cable-less and share power, cooling, and networking within the chassis.
- incision 12y ago>'What's the definition of a blade?' I'm not sure there's any hard and fast definition. Generally, a blade is going to share power at least, likely network uplinks as well. Diskless configurations are common, with some sort of shared storage being used, but local disk is finding its way back into blades via SSD.
- benjarrell 12y agoTo me a blade is a server that you have to have a blade chassis in order to use it.