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To: tecate78732 who wrote (257587)	12/27/2008 12:19:05 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"I have never seen this being done by say IBM :)" Oh, dear... you need to get out more. IBM and HP have been hotly competing on exactly this front for more than a year - IBM with BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager, and HP with Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager. Each controls 100 blade chassis. IBM as 14 servers per chassis, HP has 16 per chassis, so IBM can manage a 1400 server fabric, HP a 1600 server fabric. These products support rolling migration of a single blade, a chassis, or larger groups. There is a trend to set up a container as a fixed configuration of blade chassis, so that a container can be swapped out as a unit. Both companies are now offering 'investment protection' on installations which allow upgrades to processor model, I/O, and other system components on the fly as well as full beta testing of subsystems in a 'sandbox' which can then be propagated through the fabric in a very short time. IBM Enhances Management Of Blade Servers InformationWeek November 19, 2007 12:43 PM Blade server market leaders IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) continue to battle feature for feature on new enhancements to their platforms. IBM on Monday introduced I/O virtualization capabilities that can enable businesses to manage up to 100 separate blade chassis from a single console. more at informationweek.com