Rack-mounted 8th and 9th Generation PowerEdge servers
Dell, Inc. gives the moniker PowerEdge (PE) to its server product line, which as of 2007 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]
PERC
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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