What is the specific advantage of a blade server for virtualisation?

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Published on 2012-12-07T14:41:31Z Indexed on 2012/12/07 23:12 UTC
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We are planning to implement a VDI Solution. We had some discussions about Blade vs Rack. As we are only planning to implement 75-100 Clients, we calculated, that we would need 2 Servers with Dual 8C Processors - and a shared storage server. This calculation is based on a paper by ORACLE, that says, 12 active virtual machines per core.

Now, for buying to servers, a blade does not scale financially. But the Blade has some other advantages:

a) The interconnectivity between the blades is super-fast. b) IO Virtualisation

Are there other advantages, that we should consider, that would make up for price - and are this advantages so important, that we should think about investing in the blade?

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