Blade servers and virtualization transforming enterprise computing while cutting costs - Goldworm, Barb (Wiley Technology Pub., 2007)
Title from title screen
Includes bibliographical references and index
Ch. 1. Blades and virtualization -- building blocks for next-generation data centers -- Ch. 2. Evolution of computing technology -- setting the stage -- Ch. 3. Evolution of Blade and virtualization technologies -- Ch. 4. Blade architecture -- Ch. 5. PC Blades -- Ch. 6. Networking and related technologies -- Ch. 7. Blades and storage -- Ch. 8. Virtualization -- Ch. 9. Clustering and Blades -- Ch. 10. Managing Blade systems -- Ch. 11. Industry organizations and related standards -- Ch. 12. Assessing your needs -- Blade system hardware considerations -- Ch. 13. Power and cooling -- Ch. 14. System software considerations -- Ch. 15. Differentiating and selecting products -- Ch. 16. Key vendor and product analysis -- Ch. 17. Case studies -- Ch. 18. A look into the future
Blade server systems and virtualization are key building blocks for Next Generation Enterprise Data centers.; Blades offer modular, pre-wired, ultra high-density servers (up to 10x traditional servers) with shared components (power, cooling, switches) - reducing complexity and cost, and improving flexibility, availability, manageability, and maintainability.; Virtualization enables consolidation of physical servers by allowing many virtual servers to run concurrently on one physical server - improving system utilization, reducing the total number of physical servers, reducing costs, and incre