Keeping up with the rising costs of energy and ever present space constraints are two of the greatest challenges facing IT departments. Making changes to current infrastructure is expensive and difficult. The ability for IT managers to proactively plan is critical. Partnering with Dell Professional Services enables businesses to better plan and deploy more efficient Data Center Solutions.
Dell Professional Consultants help businesses assess, scope and plan datacenter power and cooling requirements for planned deployments. Businesses are provided comprehensive assessments and remediation plans for HVAC, cooling and power delivery systems.
Partner with Dell to consolidate and optimize current or future data center deployments to reduce IT complexity and maximize energy efficiency.
New Quad-Core low voltage processors designed to increase performance per watt
Controls fan speed based on thermal requirements of the system.
Draws significantly less energy, helping to maintain cooler internal temperatures.
Designed to increase performance per watt.
Blade servers help reduce the space requirements for servers in the data center.
Through the use of a specially designed chassis, blade servers are installed vertically, like books in a bookshelf, instead of horizontally, in a 19" industry-standard rack. By removing the power and cooling components from each individual server and moving them to the rear of the chassis, customers can reduce the amount of space required.
Up to ten blade servers can be installed in a chassis that consumes 7U of rack space. Compared to 10U of rack space that ten 1U servers would normally require as individual servers, the PowerEdge 1955 provides up to 43% better density with up to 60 total servers in a 42U rack. Compared to the maximum of 42 1U servers, this provides quite significant space savings for space-constrained data centers.
Rack mounting helps move servers from distributed locations into the data center. The ability to put up to forty-two computing devices in a single rack means that a tremendous amount of cabling is required. Cabling is mostly an art and less of a science.
The blade server chassis greatly simplifies the cabling process by aggregating cabling of ten servers at once. Up to 70% of network, power, and KVM cabling required for ten 1U servers can be reduced by moving to blade servers in a single chassis. Redundant power cables can be reduced from twenty cables (two per server) to four cables. A single keyboard/video/mouse controller allows for a single connection to replace the thirty connections required for ten individual servers. These cabling reductions continue across networking, SAN connectivity, and management controllers.
Reducing the number of cables not only helps speed up deployment of servers, but it also can reduce troubleshooting issues down the road by presenting fewer physical connections to the servers.
