SK0-003 · Question #520
An administrator has a single 14U rack. The administrator needs to install fifteen servers; rack- mounted redundant uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), a network switch, and a KVM. Which of the…
The correct answer is A. Blade servers. Blade servers are best suited for high-density computing in a limited rack space because they maximize the number of servers while sharing common infrastructure.
Question
An administrator has a single 14U rack. The administrator needs to install fifteen servers; rack- mounted redundant uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), a network switch, and a KVM. Which of the following server types would be BEST suited for this scenario?
Options
- ABlade servers
- BRackmount servers
- CTower servers
- DWeb servers
How the community answered
(30 responses)- A73% (22)
- B7% (2)
- C17% (5)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
Blade servers are best suited for high-density computing in a limited rack space because they maximize the number of servers while sharing common infrastructure.
Blade servers are designed for extreme density, allowing many individual server modules to fit into a single chassis that occupies minimal rack U-space. This design shares power supplies, cooling, and network connections across multiple servers, making it ideal for installing fifteen servers, along with redundant UPSs, a network switch, and a KVM, within a single 14U rack.
Rackmount servers typically consume 1U, 2U, or more per server, making it impractical or impossible to fit 15 individual rackmount servers plus other components into a single 14U rack.
Tower servers are standalone units not designed for rack mounting and would be an inefficient and inappropriate choice for a rack-based, high-density server deployment.
Web servers describe a server's functional role or application purpose, not its physical form factor, and therefore is not relevant to the question of physical installation density.
Concept tested: Server form factors and rack density
Source: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=servers-blade-servers
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