Category: PowerEdge

  • Server BMC Security Concerns – What They Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You

    As anybody who has been a parent will tell you, children are voracious eaters (especially teenagers). Something my wife or I might buy as a component for a family dinner often becomes a single meal for one or more of our children as soon as it is discovered in the…

  • OpenAPI: What’s Cooking Under Redfish!

    As we discussed in our previous SoundBytes, the Redfish API is becoming a more and more popular way of managing PowerEdge servers. It provides the flexibility of an API while providing the full functionality of iDRAC, but what is Redfish based on? As it turns out, when Dell implemented Redfish…

  • Redfish: Its What’s for Dinner; How Does it Work and First Steps

    The Redfish API is just one piece of a larger puzzle. While you can do some things with it by itself there are other components required to make it a viable solution for systems management. In our last video we started talking a little about the Redfish API, what it…

  • Liquid Cooling in the Datacenter: Why, What, How?

    Traditionally, servers have been cooled by sucking cold air on one end of the server and expelling it at the other end. Datacenters have been designed to optimize this method of cooling by creating cold isles and hot isles, thus ensuring the coldest air goes on the intake of the…

  • Sustainable Infrastructure Part 2: PowerEdge 15G Innovations

    Designing better servers isn’t solely about making them more powerful. That’s why PowerEdge prides itself in engineering servers that are also more sustainable with each generation. In part 1 of this series, we learned about some of the most critical aspects of server sustainability. For refreshers, the three pillars that…

  • The Catch of the Day for Systems Management is Redfish

    IPMI has been a critical part of large data center infrastructure for many years but has many limitations and vulnerabilities that have been historically difficult to mitigate. That infrastructure isn’t going to manage itself… or is it? Redfish is a relatively new, high protein, low fat alternative to traditional IPMI,…

  • Sustainable Infrastructure Part 1: How to Be a Sustainability Star

    As the environment affects the well-being of our future, I’ve always been passionate about ensuring its sustainability. However, it wasn’t until recently that I recognized the integral role of technological innovation in progressing our path towards a more sustainable future. Take PowerEdge, for example. As generations of this platform have…

  • Dialing in with 15G xa and xs

    Modern server design teams require flexibility in terms of cost, performance, and scalability to achieve their ideal configuration and keep up with emerging workload needs. To help customers strike an effective balance, PowerEdge 15G has introduced two new classes of optimized rack servers, the xa and xs models. The xa…

  • What’s HOT in 15G?

    The 15th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, PowerEdge 15G, was launched on March 17th, 2021. As any new product would, PowerEdge 15G brought significant performance improvements over PowerEdge 14G, but also created some challenges. In this blog post and in the first episode of PowerEdge Soundbytes, we will look at…

  • Are All Servers Created Equal?

    As a technical resource coming from the storage world, I always have considered servers to be a commodity necessary to run applications, meaning that, for me, a server was just a server as all servers in the market share the same components. As I am diving deeper into the PowerEdge…