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| Dell Adds Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7100 to Its Quad-Socket Servers Dell has enhanced its quad-socket servers with Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7100 series processors and system management software to simplify data center operations. Dell PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 servers featuring the new processors can deliver performance gains of up to 123 percent and improved performance per watt of up to 129 percent. To reduce data center complexity, Dell OpenManage now delivers improved hardware deployment, monitoring and management with Dell IT Assistant 8.0. The enhanced systems management capabilities and tight partner integration are designed to give customers greater flexibility, security and control over their server environments. These servers are designed for demanding enterprise applications such as database, server consolidation, virtualization and migration from costly RISC-based systems. The combination of scalability, availability, hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT), and Hyper-Threading technology can provide the headroom and optimization required to handle applications in virtualized environments. The quad-socket PowerEdge servers can be configured with large 16MB cache processors to efficiently handle large data-blocks typical in database environments. Customers can realize benefits from the quad-socket, dual-core processor speeds, 800MHz Front Side Bus and Hyper-Threading technology available on PowerEdge 6800 and 6850 servers for applications that take advantage of processor-intensive performance. The Dell OpenManage product family coupled with tightly integrated partner solutions for enhanced management provides a comprehensive selection of deployment, monitoring, and change-management tools for Dell hardware. The availability of Dell IT Assistant 8.0 reflects Dell's strategy to improve hardware management capabilities while providing a high degree of flexibility and choice of management tools for Dell servers. IT Assistant 8.0 provides more comprehensive hardware management capabilities from a centralized console including: - Agent-less server management using IPMI - Customers can manage Dell servers with IT Assistant 8.0 using the standard IPMI 2.0 management controller provided without loading an agent on the server. - Performance Management - Monitoring, alerting and reporting of server performance statistics such as CPU, pages I/O, disk free space, disk I/O, and NIC traffic. - Enhanced Deployment/Change Management - Gives customers the ability to push OMSA agents to Windows servers - Additional Device Support - for Dell printers, Dell/EMC storage and PowerVault tape libraries, allows customers to minimize their management tool set while maintaining overall control of a wider variety of IT devices. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |