In the case of using a BLADE Center, we have the following hardware topology:
As illustrated, we have a BLADE Center that contains the following components:
- Blade servers: These are hardware cards, usually located at the front side of the blade.
- Servers: The virtual servers installed on the hardware servers, also called VMs.
- Internal LAN switch: Internal LAN switches that are installed at the front or back of the blade center. These switches usually have 12-16 internal or virtual ports (Int in the diagram) and 4-8 external or physical ports (Ext in the diagram).
- External switch: Installed in the communication ...