[Malvern] Rack Mounted Equipment

[Angus Clarke]

The company I work for use HP DL140 G3 and G4 servers, which are 1U 
thickness servers. I doubt they have the same motherboard layouts as to 
those found in desktop PCs, although the technology is pretty much the 
same (if anything more compact.)

DL140s have on board RAID and 2 bays for SCSI HDDs so they are geared 
towards a RAID1 configuration - Im guessing most desktop PCs do not come 
with SCSI or hardware RAID as standard (to point out another possible 
difference.) They also don't have parallel or serial ports.

Also, the sockets on the back are different to my "homebrew" PC: only 1 
USB port, 2 NIC ports (bonded under Linux) and an iLO port (iLO is for 
remote server management) DL140s also has a VGA out, but nothing else.

I would suggest this to be a standard configuration for any (most) 1U 
server these days.

I also manage HP DL760s which have 8 Xeon CPUs, 5 x 9 Gb RAM cards 
available in a RAID 5 configuration (4 in use, 1 as a hot swap spare) -  
no USB ports and  no parallel/serial ports (I would have to check, but I 
dont think they have any!) iLO is not standard on these boxes but 
available as a card extension - DL760s are big servers warranting 
numerous PCI slots.If memory serves, these boxes are about 8U thickness.

Again, I would expect similar configurations from other vendors to HP

Regards
/A

PS: We run Linux for the app servers (DL140s) and Linux/MySQL on the 
DL760s :)


Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Quick question - if you rack mount computers are the mother boards the same
> as what you'd find in your desktop, or are they specific to the rack
> mounting system you're using?
>
> Cheers
>
> E
>
>
>
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