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Dell has introduced its new range of full-height blade servers, the PowerEdge M905 and PowerEdge M805 which have built on the ground-breaking virtualization design of the PowerEdge R805 and R905. Based on a four-socket blade, the PowerEdge M905 delivers ultimate virtualization performance. It is also the first blade server that supports as may as 11 tiles along with 66 Virtual Machines in VM mark testing. The PowerEdge M805 offers equal number of DIMM slots in a two-socket blade that needs a four-socket blade from HP or IBM. The servers are available in markets worldwide at a starting price of USD 1,699 and USD 4,999 respectively.

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Making use of its existing networking investments, Dell has unveiled Dell FlexAddress, a patent pending tool for blade chassis virtualization and persistent identity. With this, the company is following up on the successful introduction of its PowerEdge M-Series blade server solution. Any M-Series blade enclosure can now abstract the Fibre Channel World Wide Name (WWN) and Ethernet/iSCSI Media Access Control (MAC) from the blade hardware and, instead, tie it persistently to a slot in the M1000e chassis with the help of Dell FlexAddress.
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Dell has announced its broadest lineup of dedicated virtualization solutions ever, with dozen new servers, tools, and services simplifying the deployment and management of virtualization in Enterprises of any size. Dell has simplified the path to purchase and deploy virtualized Dell PowerEdge servers with updated on-line tools, new e-commerce capability and expanded factory integration. With the updated Virtualization Advisor tool, customers have more options for building validated configurations on-line for virtualization deployments before purchase. From the article:

Virtualization is quickly moving beyond hypervisors and hardware consolidation. Enterprises are looking for a broad array of servers, storage and services designed specifically for virtualized environments. Having been a leader in the first wave of virtualization, today we are signaling our intent to lead the second.”

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