At Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly there's another $800 for a "system common planar" that's "required". Googling only finds specs with it - does anyone know what it is? I mean, it's not like it's the motherboard, right?
From a fast & furious google-fu workout, I conclude that the "System
Common Planar" is in fact the motherboard. Look at your configuration options ... Do you see another motherboard item there?
Nooooo... but I was assuming the chassis, along with the embedded slots, NIC, etc, were all one item with the base price.
If they're charging for a m/b in addition, I'm appalled.
Are these 'blade' servers? If so, this 'motherboard' could be the backpane the servers 'plug into'. That is there is the large chassis that can hold a bunch of 1U servers. Instead of the 1U servers just being a something that mounts in a standard rack, with hot-swap (?) disks and some running lights on the front and the usual collection of places to plug in Ethernet, serial console, keyboard/mouse, USB, and power cord, there is some sort of grand connector thing that mates to a back plane connector, which in turn has a common place for a fat power cord, plus a built in Ethernet Switch and KVM / console switch. Or something like that. Just guessing here though...
mark
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