Updating Dell blade firmware with the Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter
The company I work for recently purchased new Dell blade enclosures to refresh our aging rack mount server population. We had been thinking about moving to blades for several years and this was the...
View ArticleDell Force 10 MXL – First impressions
I recently began a virtual infrastructure refresh which included the purchase of a couple of Dell M1000e blade chassis. The solution had a number of networking options to choose from, including new...
View Article10 Gb Multi-NIC vMotion Testing
With the upgrade of our network core from 1 Gb to 10 Gb and with the installation of new Dell M620 blade servers I wanted to run some quick and dirty tests to see what performance looked like when...
View ArticleA look at the new DXM-A PCoIP offload card for Dell M-series blade servers
It's been along time coming and it is finally here: Amulet Hotkey has just released the DXM-A, a PCoIP offload card for the Dell M-series blade servers. The street price should be in the $2,000 -...
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