Is Brocade a blade farm manager?
ARM, Tapestry’s Application Resource Manager, is even more of a conundrum. It is based on technology from Therion which company Brocade funded and then acquired. The idea is that enterprises with 500 to 5,000 or more blades in a blade frm will need to alter their characteristics quite often. So it might need to change 50 of them from Windows servers running a SAP business application to Linux servers running a quarter-end financial package. Wouldn’t it be good if the shutdown, operating system installation, system parameters and application installation could all be automated. In fact you could have guaranteed clean files for this, so-called ‘golden files’, stored on the SAN and the software tool would use them to do a complete bare metal install on the selected blades. That’s what ARM does. Plechschmidt said: “Customers want to automate this. It’s much more appropriate than copying 500 reboot files over the LAN. Blade server vendors want to remove disks from their blades. THey get hot
