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what is the difference between a blade p6 and p6-520 ?

  • 1.  what is the difference between a blade p6 and p6-520 ?

    Posted Wed November 11, 2009 04:09 PM

    Originally posted by: alaix


    Hello

    Now that the ibm blade p6 support virtualisation etc... Why would you buy a small p6-520 ? I'm still not sure the difference between the blade p6 and small p6-520 (the price is different - blade cheapper)

    Let me know what would you choose for dev / test env and also some production servers (not critical)

    Cheers
    Al
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  • 2.  Re: what is the difference between a blade p6 and p6-520 ?

    Posted Sun November 15, 2009 06:51 PM

    Originally posted by: phastjay


    Blades are designed primarily as a way to provide physical consolidation of multiple servers. So if you needed multiple individual servers, then blades are a good answer. Remember that each blade must be placed in a BladeCenter, so if you only need one or two servers, then you might be better off with p6-520s.

    520 tend to have more I/O choices that blades, for example supporting 12x Infinband Remote I/O drawers. The 520 also supports Hardware Management Console (HMC) management and redundant Virtual I/O Servers. In contrast, the Power6 blades use the Integrated Virtual I/O Server (IVM) and do not currently support redundant VIOS servers.
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