Published by Admin on 16 Jul 2008
Christmas comes early! - SPARC processor in IBM Blade Form
We use the IBM Blade Center H chassis in our Data Center along with blades from other vendors including Sun Micro. I have told both our IBM rep and Sun Rep that our life would be so much easier if we could get a SPARC based processor in an IBM Blade. <insert visual of well dressed sales guy rolling in the floor laughing> Now that wish is a reality. However, it is made by a third party and I haven’t heard/asked yet as to what using this in a IBM supported Blade Center would do to the support contract.
The article where I got this information from can be found at the register.co.uk website. A single T2 processor with up to 32GB of memory can be in configured in the blade. To see more of the specs, check out this website for the vendor Themis Computer. If anyone is out there deploys this blade or even tests it, let me know. I would love to get one to put in our lab.
If this works out, we could get to the point of only using IBM Blade Center H chassis and not have to maintain and support both the IBM and SUN blade centers. I so love consolidation and the end to server proliferation.
