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* Topic: Blade Challenges Objective: Describe the challenges faced by traditional blade server deployments This topic describes challenges faced by traditional blade server deployments. * The consolidation of discreet servers into blade chassis provides a number of advantages in the data center: Reduced physical footprint Shared networking and SAN switching Reduced cabling Rapid provisioning of additional resources * As the physical density of a blade environment increases relative to rack mounted servers, there may be more power and cooling required in the same physical space. This can cause challenges in powering and cooling the data center. The relatively high density of compute resources in a blade environment often requires significantly more bandwidth and cabling to fully utilize the deployment. Each chassis in a blade environment will typically have a management IP address and require monitoring for system and blade health. Additionally, each local LAN or SAN switch (if installed) also adds management overhead and overall network design challenges. * * * ? 2009 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. DCUCI v1.0—1-* ? 2009 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. DCUCI v1.0—1-* Understanding the Benefits of the Cisco Unified Computing System Explaining Challenges with Data Center Server Management Objectives Describe the evolution of server scalability Describe the management challenges that exist in modern data centers Describe the challenges faced by traditional blade server deployments Evolution of Server Scalability Scalability: The Server Evolution Scale Up Scale Out Scale In ? The 1990s Early 2000s Now Monolithic servers: Large number of CPUs Proprietary platforms Proprietary Operating System Many apps per server Commodity servers: Few CPUs X86 platform Commoditized Operating System One application per server Blade servers: Multi-core CPUs X86 platform Commoditized Operating System Virtualization High cost Large failure domain Under-utilized servers