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To: rudedog who wrote (257582)	12/27/2008 8:18:50 AM
From: tecate78732	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

So you say, but as I have said, I have never seen this being done by say IBM :)

To: rudedog who wrote (257582)	12/27/2008 3:24:21 PM
From: bh24	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

>>> Instead, blades with new processors are swapped into a rack That isn't a CPU upgrade, it a blade (aka system) replacement. >>> ProLiant (both pre and post HP) had the ability to shut down >>> and 'hot swap' a processor (and it's related power module if >>> power characteristics changed) without taking the server >>> down - this was true for higher-end 2, 4 and 8 way boxes. As someone who has bought Proliant systems for the past 10 or so years, that news to me. Do you have examples of some models that will allow you to do this. While we mostly buy DL3xx and DL5xx computers now, which only have hot swappable disk, power supplies and maybe some fans, we still have dome DL740's which also had hot swappable memory, but I don't recall any model with a hot swappable CPU.