At Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > centos-bounces at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments