We have customers infrastructure hosted on physical HP boxes across several racks and finally we are planning to migrate them to Vsphere.Data is stored on NFS SAN.It was suggested to use c-Series Dell servers for hypervisors. In the past I have been involved in projects that used blades for virtualization and using c-Series feels like a unusual choice for me. I am trying to figure out what are the pros and cons of using blades or c-Series in our scenario.Does anyone has experience with c-Series and Vsphere deployments?
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Well its probably fair to say that the C-series allows higher concentration of hosts in a rack, but perhaps less resources per host, in particular, network connections might be limited compared to those possible on a blade like the m610, for example.
That might or might not be an issue for you, only you know the exact details of your requirements.
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Not sure. Ehcek th new mico blades - quarter height. That is 32 (!) blades, 2 sockets each, in one center. Dell finally gets it.– TomTomMay 28, 2012 at 11:44
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@tomtom yes I like the Dell blades, we've had various models of Dell blade for quite a while and overall I like what they're doing now.– Rob MoirMay 28, 2012 at 16:21
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I am still to see Dell's answer to FlexFabric.I could not get a good answer from Dell sales rep on what they can suggest to replace explosion of the cables at the back of the chassis.– SergeiMay 28, 2012 at 16:36
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That is a problem. The backs of the cabinets we've deployed blades into and maxed out the network connections into each blade look like party time at Cthulu's house.– Rob MoirMay 28, 2012 at 18:29
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? Sorry? What about using some in chassis switches with 10gb going out, or an infiniband fabric? I fail to see how one could need more than a handfull of network cables PER CHASSIS ;)– TomTomMay 28, 2012 at 20:22