BLADE HEMAL RANA BLADE TECHNOLOGIES PRESENTED BY HEMAL RANA COMPUTER ENGINEER GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE,MODASA

WHAT IS SERVER??? A server computer is a computer, or series of computers, that link other computers or electronic devices together. Many servers have dedicated functionality such as web servers, print servers, and database servers. For example, when you enter a query in a search engine, the query is sent from your computer over the internet to the servers that store all the relevant web pages. The results are sent back by the server to your computer.

ANCIENT SERVER

MODERN SERVER-----BLADE SERVER Optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy. A single motherboard that contains a complete computer system, including processors, memory, network connections and related electronic devices

BLADE SERVER TECHNOLOGIES Blade servers allow more processing power in less rack space, simplifying cabling and reducing power consumption. Blade servers can experience as much as an 85% reduction in cabling for blade installations over conventional 1U or tower servers. With so much less cabling, IT administrators can spend less time managing the infrastructure and more time ensuring high availability.

Each blade will have its own software and operating system installed on it. Blades such as storage blades with hard disk drives or those supporting Gigabit Ethernet switches and Fiber Channel storage switches can be added to a blade server. A blade server also works well with thin client devices (a client/server architecture in which no data is stored). BLADE SERVER TECHNOLOGIES

The individual blades in the chassis (also called a cabinet) are connected using a bus system. Combined they form a blade server and all share a common network connection, power supply and cooling resources. BLADE SERVER TECHNOLOGIES

HISTORY Blade server technology was initially developed in the early millennium through a partnership between IBM and Intel. Later, a number of major companies, led by IBM, formed an “industry community” in February 2006, with a website base at blade.org. The mission of the community is to “accelerate the growth and adoption of [blade] technologies in the market.”

FEATURES Lower hardware costs : Sharing of power and cooling equipment. Management of hardware and cabling systems

Simplified deployment and maintenance : Time-consuming and resource-intensive process Sharing a number of redundant power supply, so to minimize the wiring of the rack Administrators can operate through a network FEATURES

To maximize the use of data center space: Blade servers can make the server than the current density of rack-optimized 1U system increased 100% to 8000%. FEATURES

USES Blade servers function well for specific purposes such as File sharing Web page serving and caching SSL encrypting of Web communication The trans-coding of Web page content for smaller displays Streaming audio and video content

Uses low-power processor. Low power consumption because fewer components. USES

ADVANTAGES Condensed, high-density Load balancing and failover Power consumption & power management Lower management cost Flexibility, modularity, and ease of upgrading Deployment and scalability Disaster management

DISADVANTAGES  Expensive configuration  Expensive tool  Vendor-lock  Heating and cooling

COMMON BLADE SERVER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS Blades are frequently deployed in data centers and high-performance computing environments, and can serve as application servers, databases, or Web servers, and more. Large data centers and telecommunications service providers benefit from the use of blades as they provide the means for a large business to respond quickly to changes in business conditions.

Where a business or group would use several different servers for different applications, it makes sense to combine the multiple servers into one blade server to make for better manageability. COMMON BLADE SERVER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

Blade servers are well suited to seismic data analysis, data manipulation, visual rendering via FireWire interfaces and data storage. Military applications are beginning to utilize blades as well, such as signal detection and analysis, surveillance, data analysis and manipulation, and visual rendering of data. INDUSTRY ADOPTION:

The Emergence of Fully Capable Blade Servers: High-performance, open standard computing is becoming more commonplace across an increasing number of technology-rich industries. INDUSTRY ADOPTION:

FUTURE SCOPE At the component level, there are improvements going on at the chip-level from Intel and AMD like quad-core and beyond. Virtualization assist is now happening at the hardware level, which is making the next level up the server virtualization software run substantially faster.

Continuing improvements in the power and cooling efficiencies and capabilities. The newer generations of blades systems have improving substantially, to the point where a blade server generates less heat and is more efficient. FUTURE SCOPE

CONCLUSION Blade servers can greatly improve the reliability of business systems. It is clear that by close review of the application and it’s power requirements decisions can be made that will allow for future expansion, denser cabinets, greatly reduced costs.power redundancy and will optimize cable and CDU requirements.

It is only through making the power requirements a priority at the beginning of the project rather than an after thought that these goals are achieved. CONCLUSION

REFERENCES www-3.ibm.com/ IEEE Computer magazine, Sep-2006 IGI.Publishing.Advances.in.Ubiquitous.Computing.Future.Paradigm s.and.Directions.Mar.2006

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