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April 18th, 2008 22:00

Storage within blade

Will dell release any storage solution within blade ?

After study the whitepaper and compared to HP c-class system.
Dell have no passive connection between blade and it only possible with I/O modules.

But with some kind of SAS fabric module, it even can build whole storage solution using this blade enclosure.

Consider storage blade using double-width, we got 2 x4 SAS connection to *each* I/O module act as in/out (or 4 x4 SAS but need 2 I/O module for redundancy). That fabric connect each half-height slot 1-in, 2-out, 3-in, 4-out, 5-in 6-out.

Now it possible to get rid of MDx000 enclosure ;-)

Does dell working on these ideas ?

May 1st, 2008 17:00

Thanks for your post. We have received much feedback in terms of adding storage blades or additional direct attach storage capabilities within our PowerEdge M-Series blade solution. While Dell is exploring future blade technologies, we feel our customers will continue to derive greater benefits from the advantages of consolidated, highly available, external storage solutions, such as Dell | EqualLogic iSCSI and Dell | EMC Fibre Channel SANs.

May 1st, 2008 17:00

Thanks for your post. We have received much feedback in terms of adding storage blades or additional direct attach storage capabilities within our PowerEdge M-Series blade solution. While Dell is exploring future blade technologies, we feel our customers will continue to derive greater benefits from the advantages of consolidated, highly available, external storage solutions, such as Dell | EqualLogic iSCSI and Dell | EMC Fibre Channel SANs.
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