NEC Raises the Bar for High Density IT Solution Platforms for the public and Private Cloudhttp://www.acnnewswire.com/http://www.acnnewswire.com/Press Release: NEC Corporation – 35 minutes ago


ricky l • a second agoRemove
46 servers in 2 RU chassis - is more compact than any known similar plaform.
Just wonder whether any support for FCOE to connect SAN storage or still using FC for connectivity to SAN storage, backup?

Seems like Hadoop storage is the preferred storage solution here - that make use of local harddisk storage space of so many servers.

Thought virtualised platform will be a prerequisite to support the public and private cloud - thus SAN storage will be right storage solution for hosting cloud services.

Hadoop storage technology are meant for social media storage, Big Data storage and data crunching for business and data analytics.
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ricky l • a second agoRemove Another issue will be the chassis server uplinks to the Ethernet switch.
With such high density chassis with so many servers per chassis - normal Ethernet switch of 1 Gbps or even 10 Gbps for chassis uplinks especially if many Virtual Machines can be spawn per physical servers will be insufficient and grossly oversubscribed in bandwidth - result in congested server uplinks.

This piece of information is missing unless the chassis can support 100Gbps or 40Gbps. ricky l • a second agoRemove
If FCOE is not supported, then traditional FC switch will be needed to store data in SAN storage and connectivity to backup.

Separate Ethernet switches that must support at least 100Gbps, 40Gbps, 10Gbps and 1Gbps will be required.

2 set of separate cabling - fibre cabling for FC switches and copper cabling for Ethernet network switches will be required.