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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.

Server hardware installation and management

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)
  • A
    73% (22)
  • B
    7% (2)
  • C
    17% (5)
  • D
    3% (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.

ABlade serversCorrect

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.

BRackmount servers

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.

CTower servers

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.

DWeb servers

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

Topics

#Blade servers#Rack space management#Server form factors#Data center planning

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