Archive for the ‘Servers’ Category

How to configure hardware RAID in Dell Servers

One of the Dell Servers, Dell PowerEdge 2850, in our Cyber Jaya DC had hard disk issues, so I had to replace it. For some reason, I had a little bit of trouble setting up and configuring hardware RAID. Mostly because the terms used in the configuration menus and the menu itself is kinda confusing
So [...]

Project Blackbox – Data Center on the go

Did you know Sun has come up with a Data Center on the go. Project Blackbox is a transportable shock-proof shipping container. It is capable of accommodating up to 250 Sun Fire T1000s or x64 servers, with up to 7 terabytes of memory and as many as 1.5 petabytes of disk or 2 petabytes of [...]

New Mainframes from Sun and Fujitsu

Sun in collaboration with Fujitsu has launched a line of SPARC/Solaris machines targeting very high scale computing environments.
The machines are general purpose, run Solaris without modification, but offer features and scale that were historically the stuff only mainframe customers could love (because no other computers offered them).
The new line will be called M-class, M for [...]