System Administrator and maintainance

Part 1:
Read Chapter 4 – Servers – answer questions 4 and 5 (See attachment for book)

Part 2:

Read Chapter 5 - Services

1. Read the HP article on Blade Servers at: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/info/what-is-a-blade.html

    

2. Read the Maxi-Pedia article on blade servers at http://www.maxi-pedia.com/blade%20server%20benefits%20advantages%20and%20disadvantages

    

   Answer the following questions:

1. What do you feel is the biggest advantage of blades servers and why?
2. What is in your opinion, the biggest of the drawbacks and why?

Notice that one article is vendor written and does not list any disadvantages. The other is an independent article and it lists advantages and disadvantages.This is one reason why you need to exercise caution when reading articles from vendors.