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How do electrical load, server cooling affect server virtualization?

How do electrical load, server cooling affect server virtualization?

Q: What are the electrical load and cooling needs for blade servers?

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Martin MacLeod is an IT consultant based in London with several years' experience deploying and supporting blade servers in volume. He also blogs at bladewatch.com, where he tracks news on blade servers, grids and virtualization. Listen to the rest of Martin's answers on blade server virtualization by downloading our blade server virtualization podcast.

The energy considerations and the cooling considerations for blade servers are that you're going to have more condensed servers in a condensed area with blade server virtualization, so you have to be more careful to ensure that you've got adequate energy for each cabinet to host these blades, and more importantly, that you've got adequate cooling. You need to make sure the air is going straight through the blade and there are no pockets of air building up behind the blade or around the cabinet, which could cause you issues in terms of reliability. And you get the benefits of being a bit more flexible and portable with the infrastructure, so if blade 7 fails, the SAN, the ESX server and virtual machines running on it are just [cut over seamlessly] to blade number 8.

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