Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Dell Enables Rapid Blade Provisioning

The latest step in Dell's Simplifying IT strategy is an SD card designed to ease the hassle of deploying and retaining server information in a blade server. Dell's FlexAddress SD Card (define) will help users of PowerEdge M-Series blade servers quickly provision a server and maintain provisioning information.

When a blade server is first deployed, it has to obtain network and storage connectivity from the network, which usually means bringing in several administrators to assign IP addresses, storage connectivity and network access.

Dell FlexAddress allows any M-Series blade chassis to abstract the Fibre Channel World Wide Name (WWN) and Ethernet/iSCSI Media Access Control (MAC) from the blade hardware and, instead, tie it persistently to a slot in the M1000e chassis.

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