[chbot] IBM Blade server, and Linux

[Mark Beckett]

Seems Red Hat will go on.
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5086939

There should be another number, sometimes on the rear.

Good luck, it will be noisy when it ramps up.
Is there a reason you want this one to go, or are you just doing your 
bit for the environment.?

Mark




Mark Atherton wrote:
> The blades are HS12
>
> At 03:27 p.m. 8/01/2014, Mark Beckett wrote:
>> Got a model number
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Mark Atherton wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have been looking at a rather large and very noisy, and very very 
>>> power hungry blade server made by IBM around 2005.
>>>
>>> 24 x (1G RAM, 74G HD, 3G Xeon processor -- HS12), with 4 PSUs, each 
>>> capable of 2kW
>>>
>>> As well as console and quad NIC, there are several other interesting 
>>> plug in cards on the frame.
>>>
>>> I am probably being wildly optimistic that it might be possible to 
>>> run and open source Linux x 24 on this beast without having to take 
>>> a small percentage of a lifetime to learn the pre-requisites.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any experience with such a setup before it goes to 
>>> meet it's maker ?
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
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