Now THAT's a blade! HP BL495c: 8 cores, dual 10GbE, 128GB RAM

Being at VMworld in San Francisco last year i was lucky enough to speak with a couple of vendors and talk to them about their virtualization platforms, its gonna be great as these virtualization products hit the street..

Hopefully we will even see a cheaper overall economy as people can spend less money on memory and more money on more boxes :)

/Rene Vester

I recently got a new Dell m1000e chassis.  It can only do 64GB of RAM and the nic's aren't 10G (yet) but the switches can do 10g.  I'm pretty impressed so far, tons of improvments on the lights-out board and chassis management.   Its really interesting to see how well blade technology has evolved in the last couple years.  I used to be very anti-virtualization on blades, but now it's starting to make more sense.

 The thing that I'm just not sold on is power consumption.  The Dell chassis is really good so far at regulating power consumption and cooling based on work-load (so does the HP I'm sure) in relation to density, but it will take me a little longer to really compare the numbers against 2U servers.

My question is will it all support FCoE.