Dell PowerEdge
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Dell gives the moniker PowerEdge (PE) to its server product line, which as of 2007[update] brought in approximately 15% of Dell's overall revenue from computer hardware sales [1].
Most PowerEdge servers use the x86 architecture. The early exceptions to this, the PowerEdge 3250, PowerEdge 7150, and PowerEdge 7250, used Intel's Itanium processor, but Dell abandoned Itanium in 2005[2] after failing to find adoption in the marketplace. The partnership between Intel and Dell remained close, with Intel remaining the exclusive source of processors in Dell's servers until 2006. In May 2006 Dell announced that it intended to develop servers using AMD Opteron processors.[3] The first Opteron-based PowerEdge systems, the PowerEdge 6950 and the PowerEdge SC1435, appeared in October 2006[4]
PowerEdge machines come configured as tower, rack-mounted, or blade servers. Dell uses a consistent chip-set across servers in the same generation regardless of packaging,[5] allowing for a common set of drivers and system-images.
OEMs (VARs) also offer solutions based on PowerEdge servers. Loaded with custom software and with minor cosmetic changes, Dell's servers form the underlying hardware in certain appliances from IronPort,[6] Google,[7] and Enterasys.[8]
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Among the standard hardware components of a server, note Dell's proprietary PowerEdge-specific PERC (PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller). The related software in the PERC Fault Management Suite offers facilities such as the Background Patrol read, which aims to fix bad sectors on online RAID disks.[9]
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- ^ Press Release — Dell Reports Preliminary Revenue of $14.4 Million
- ^ Dell to Phase Out Computers Using Intel's Itanium
- ^ Press Release — Dell's International And Enterprise Business Drives First Quarter Revenue Growth
- ^ Press Release — Dell Unveils Four- and Two-Socket Servers
- ^ Dell Extends the Scalable Enterprise with Eighth-Generation PowerEdge Servers
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- ^ Habas, Drew; John Sieber (February 2006). "Background Patrol read for Dell PowerEdge RAID Controllers" (PDF). Dell Power Solutions. Dell Inc. 73-75. http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050212-Habas.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-07-20. "a proactive tool [...] to help avert [...] data problems by fixing the bad sectors when all of the drive array members are online and redundant."
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