Let's Check Out an Old Blade Server System with 32 CPUs!

Many, many servers these days run as virtual machines -- but there was a time when virtualization was still just catching on, and companies needed physical servers to be as dense as possible. So let's look at a blade server system from around 2010 that packs 32 CPU sockets and weighs 500 pounds!

Image of C7000 chassis will full-height blades: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

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