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106-505: EqualLogic was a company based in Nashua, New Hampshire . Formed in 2001 by Peter Hayden, Paul Koning, and Paula Long , it raised $ 52 million from investors between 2001 and 2004. The company was considering an initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock-exchange, but accepted an offer from Dell in 2007, and was absorbed in late January 2008. The all-cash take-over transaction of $ 1.4 billion

212-420: A 19-inch rack and is 10 rack units high (44 cm), 17.6" (44.7 cm) wide and 29.7" (75.4 cm) deep. The empty blade enclosure weighs 44.5 kg while a fully loaded system can weigh up to 178.8 kg. On the front the servers are inserted while at the backside the power-supplies, fans and I/O modules are inserted together with the management modules(s) (CMC or chassis management controller) and

318-668: A Can-Am minor league baseball team, played at Holman Stadium from 1998 through 2008, then changed to the American Defenders of New Hampshire in the 2009 season. The Defenders were evicted from the venue in August 2009, however, because of non-payment of rent, and moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts to become the Pittsfield Colonials . Before the Pride, Holman was the home stadium for the independent Nashua Hawks;

424-473: A 40 Gbit/s switch to switch (stack) uplink or, with a break-out cable, 4 x 10 Gbit/s links. Dell offers direct attach cables with on one side the QSFP+ interface and 4 x SFP+ on the other end or a QSFP+ transceiver on one end and 4 fibre-optic pairs to be connected to SFP+ transceivers on the other side. Up to six MXL blade-switch can be stacked into one logical switch. Besides the above 2x40 QSFP module

530-484: A choice of 3 different on-board converged Ethernet adaptors for 10 Gbit/s Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) from Broadcom, Brocade or QLogic and up to two additional Mezzanine for Ethernet, Fibre Channel or InfiniBand I/O A full-height server of the 11th generation with up to 4x 10-core Intel XEON E7 CPU or 4 x 8 core XEON 7500 series or 2 x 8 core XEON 6500 series, 512 Gb or 1 Tb DDR3 RAM and two hot-swappable 2,5" hard-drives (spinning or SSD). It uses

636-645: A combination of their "faceplate" profile and color. NL-SAS SSD NL-SAS NL-SAS SSD NL-SAS SSD The flagship product of the EqualLogic line is the PS Series (formerly PeerStorage ). Its current primary models are the PS4100, PS6100 and PS6500 with 1 Gb Ethernet and 10 Gb Ethernet model options. Within each "series" (i.e. 4100, 6100 and 6500) there are several sub-models that include specific disk configurations. The last generation systems are

742-430: A front-side and a back-side and thus all communication between the inserted blades and modules goes via the midplane, which has the same function as a backplane but has connectors at both sides where the front side is dedicated for server-blades and the back for I/O modules. The midplane is completely passive. The server-blades are inserted in the front side of the enclosure while all other components can be reached via

848-674: A full-size "sleeve" that holds up to four M420 blades. It also has consequences for the "normal" I/O NIC assignment: most (half-size) blades have two LOMs (LAN On Motherboard): one connecting to the switch in the A1 fabric, the other to the A2 fabric. And the same applies to the Mezzanine cards B and C. All available I/O modules (except for the PCM6348 , MXL an MIOA ) have 16 internal ports: one for each half-size blade. As an M420 has two 10 Gb LOM NICs,

954-468: A full-size sleeve to install. The current list are the currently available 11G blades and the latest generation 12 models. There are also older blades like the M605, M805 and M905 series. Released in 2012, PE M420 is a "quarter-size" blade: where most servers are 'half-size', allowing 16 blades per M1000e enclosure, with the new M420 up to 32 blade servers can be installed in a single chassis. Implementing

1060-468: A fully loaded chassis would require 2 × 32 internal switch ports for LOM and the same for Mezzanine. An M420 server only supports a single Mezzanine card (Mezzanine B OR Mezzanine C depending on their location) whereas all half-height and full-height systems support two Mezzanine cards. To support all on-board NICs one would need to deploy a 32-slot Ethernet switch such as the MXL or Force10 I/O Aggregator. But for

1166-441: A group. By combining multiple arrays per group, very large storage groups can be created with maximum capacity in one group of over 1.5 PB . Arrays can be segmented into pools, and from pools, volumes. Volumes are exposed on a SAN network, and used by virtual machine hosts or other computers. Each array comes with two controllers, offering redundancy and load-balancing. A controller offers one or more data Ethernet interfaces for

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1272-498: A household in the city was $ 60,923, and the median income for a family was $ 76,612. Male full-time workers had a median income of $ 60,365 versus $ 43,212 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 30,937. About 4.6% of families and 9.3% of the population were below the poverty line , including 11.4% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over. Nashua has three main commercial districts. Centered on Main Street near

1378-528: A key role in the development of the home video game console market. Ralph H. Baer , an employee of Sanders, developed what would become the Magnavox Odyssey , the first commercial home video game system. The arrival of Digital Equipment Corp. , now part of Hewlett-Packard , in the 1970s made the city part of the Boston -area high-tech corridor. Nashua is in southeastern Hillsborough County. It

1484-559: A low-power station in Boston and subchannels of other stations) across the entire market. As WYCN-CD, it formerly carried a number of smaller networks, along with local programming and community calendar information of interest to Nashuans, until the sale to NBC. The Everett Turnpike is the major highway running through the city. U.S. Route 3 follows the turnpike from the Massachusetts border north to Exit 7E, where it branches to

1590-570: A private ambulance service, American Medical Response. The department has five fire commissioners. The commission has overall responsibility for the policy decisions, promotions, discipline, hiring and terminations. The fire chief reports directly to the commission. Their responsibility is to also work with fire administration with planning and prioritizing the department budget. There are two hospitals in Nashua, St. Joseph Hospital and Southern New Hampshire Health System . An episode of MTV's MADE

1696-514: A problem of some kind. This LCD display can also be used for the initial configuration wizard in a newly delivered (unconfigured) system, allowing the operator to configure the CMC IP address. All other parts and modules are placed at the rear of the M1000e. The rear-side is divided in 3 sections: top: here one insert the 3 management-modules: one or two CMC modules and an optional i KVM module. At

1802-537: A quad-core or six-core Intel 5500 or 5600 Xeon CPU and Intel 5520 chipset. RAM memory options via 12 DIMM slots for up to 192 Gb RAM DDR3. A maximum of two on-blade hot-pluggable 2.5-inch hard-disks or SSDs and a choice of built-in NICs for Ethernet or converged network adapter (CNA), Fibre Channel or InfiniBand. The server has the Intel 5520 chipset and a Matrox G200 video card A full-height blade server that has

1908-499: A quad-core or six-core Intel 5500 or 5600 Xeon CPU and up to 192 Gb RAM. A maximum of four on-blade hot-pluggable 2.5" hard-disks or SSD 's and a choice of built-in NICs for Ethernet or converged network adapter, Fibre Channel or InfiniBand. The video card is a Matrox G200.The server has the Intel 5520 chipset A two-socket version of the M710 but now in a half-height blade. CPU can be two quad-core or 6-core Xeon 5500 or 5600 with

2014-441: A range of RAID controller options. Two external and one internal USB ports and two SD card slots. The blades can come pre-installed with Windows 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 2012 R2, SuSE Linux Enterprise or RHEL. It can also be ordered with Citrix XenServer or VMWare vSphere ESXi or using Hyper-V which comes with W2K8 R2. According to the vendor all Generation 12 servers are optimized to run as virtualisation platform. Out-of-band management

2120-476: A virtual KVM switch . And the rear offers 6 bays for I/O modules numbered in 3 pairs: A1/A2, B1/B2 and C1/C2. The A bays connect the on-motherboard NICs to external systems (and/or allowing communication between the different blades within one enclosure). The Dell PowerConnect switches are modular switches for use in the Dell blade server enclosure M1000e . The M6220, M6348, M8024 and M8024K are all switches in

2226-484: A weekly printed edition. Nashua radio stations include oldies station WGHM 900 AM ( ESPN affiliate), talk station WSMN 1590 AM, and 106.3 WFNQ , a classic hits station owned by Binnie Media . WEVS 88.3 and 90.3 serve as the stations for New Hampshire Public Radio . The city is part of the Manchester radio market and can also receive almost all Boston -market stations clearly. One television station

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2332-564: Is 'end of sales' since November 2011 and replaced with the PCM8024-k. Since firmware update 4.2 the PCM8024-k supports partially FCoE via FIP (FCoE Initialisation Protocol) and thus Converged network adapters but unlike the PCM 8428-k it has no native fibre channel interfaces. Also since firmware 4.2 the PCM8024-k can be stacked using external 10 Gb Ethernet interfaces by assigning them as stacking ports. Although this new stacking-option

2438-406: Is a 48 port switch: 32 internal 1 Gb interfaces (two per serverblade) and 16 external copper (RJ45) gigabit interfaces. There are also two SFP+ slots for 10 Gb uplinks and two CX4 slots that can either be used for two extra 10 Gb uplinks or to stack several M6348's blades in one logical switch. The M6348 offers four 1 Gb interfaces to each blade which means that one can only utilize

2544-539: Is a smaller blade system that shares modules with the M1000e. The blade servers, although following the traditional naming strategy e.g. M520, M620 (only blades supported) are not interchangeable between the VRTX and the M1000e. The blades differ in firmware and mezzanine connectors. In 2018, Dell introduced the Dell PE MX7000 , a new MX enclosure model, next generation of Dell enclosures. The M1000e enclosure has

2650-544: Is also delivered in combination with Compellent and PowerVault SAN systems. Both the FS7500 and FS7600 NAS using EQLX SAN offers a maximum system site of 509 TB. The FS7600 is the 2nd generation system which is also available using 10G iSCSI speeds between the FS controller and the storage backbone Nashua, New Hampshire Nashua ( / ˈ n æ ʃ ə w ʌ / ) is a city in southern New Hampshire , United States. As of

2756-522: Is also introduced in the same firmware release for the PCT8024 and PCT8024-f one can't stack blade (PCM) and rack (PCT)-versions in a single stack. The new features are not available on the 'original' PCM8024. Firmware 4.2.x for the PCM8024 only corrected bugs: no new features or new functionality are added to 'end of sale' models. To use the PCM8024 -k switches one will need the backplane that supports

2862-545: Is bordered to the south by Middlesex County, Massachusetts . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 31.7 square miles (82.2 km ), of which 30.8 square miles (79.9 km ) are land and 0.89 square miles (2.3 km ) are water, comprising 2.84% of the city. The eastern boundary of Nashua is formed by the Merrimack River , and the city is drained by

2968-563: Is done via iDRAC 7 via the CMC. A half-height server with up to 2x 22-core Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 CPUs, running the Intel C610 chipset and offering up to 768 GB RAM memory via 24 DIMM slots, or 640 GB RAM memory via 20 DIMM slots when using 145w CPUs. Two on-blade disks (2,5" PCIe SSD, SATA HDD or SAS HDD) are installable for local storage and a choice of Intel or Broadcom LOM + 2 Mezzanine slots for I/O. The M630 can also be used in

3074-606: Is in Nashua. The three-building campus that once housed a Digital Equipment Corporation software development facility was sold to the John Flatley Company, which has renamed it "Nashua Technology Park". Nashua has had a series of amateur, semi-professional, and professional baseball teams. The Nashua Silver Knights , part of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League of New England (FCBL), is the city's current team. The Nashua Pride ,

3180-507: Is in the city's northwest corner. The nearest airports with scheduled airline service are Manchester–Boston Regional Airport in Manchester and Logan International Airport in Boston. Historically, Nashua was a hub for the trolley system in New Hampshire. Trolleys could be taken south to Boston , as well as north into Manchester and to locations as far east as Hampton, New Hampshire . The trolley also connected different areas of

3286-538: Is in the northwestern part of the city and is a large thoroughfare with commercial centers along both sides. The South Nashua Commercial District, centered on Daniel Webster Highway near the Massachusetts border, is anchored by the Pheasant Lane Mall , attracting many people from Massachusetts taking advantage of the lack of sales tax in New Hampshire. The city is home to a number of technical firms, including Nashua Corporation , which took its name from

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3392-465: Is licensed to Nashua. WBTS-CD (channel 15) is owned by NBC Owned Television Stations , and serves as the NBC owned-and-operated station for the Boston market. The station moved from its own transmitter to a channel share with PBS member station WGBX-TV from their Needham, Massachusetts tower in 2018 upon NBC's assumption of ownership, letting it broadcast the "NBC Boston" service (previously carried by

3498-692: Is no option for direct communication of the server-blades in the chassis and the M4110: it only allows a user to pack a complete mini-datacentre in a single enclosure (19" rack, 10 RU ) Depending on the model and used disk driver the PS M4110 offers a system (raw) storage capacity between 4.5 TB (M4110XV with 14 × 146 Gb, 15K SAS HDD) and 14 TB (M4110E with 14 x 1 TB, 7,2K SAS HDD). The M4110XS offer 7.4 TB using 9 HDD's and 5 SSD's . Each M4110 comes with one or two controllers and two 10-gigabit Ethernet interfaces for iSCSI. The management of

3604-423: Is not seeking reelection in 2024. At the presidential level, Nashua leans strongly towards Democrats. George H. W. Bush was the last Republican presidential nominee to win Nashua, in 1988 . In the 2000 U.S Census, 22,700 residents over age three were enrolled in a Nashua educational institution, approximately a fourth of the city. The local newspaper is The Telegraph , with daily news published online and

3710-467: Is proposed to have two station stops on the line, South Nashua , which would be located behind the Pheasant Lane Mall just north of the state line, and Nashua, which would be located in a rail yard near Crown Street in downtown Nashua and would utilize the existing Crown Street park-and-ride lot. Separately on October 11, 2017 the Nashua Board of Aldermen signed a memorandum of understanding with

3816-577: Is the fact that most interfaces are internal interfaces that connect to the blade-servers via the midplane of the enclosure. Also the M-series can't be running outside the enclosure: it will only work when inserted in the enclosure. This is a 20-port switch: 16 internal and 4 external Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and the option to extend it with up to four 10 Gb external interfaces for uplinks or two 10 Gb uplinks and two stacking ports to stack several PCM6220's into one large logical switch. This

3922-667: Is unclear whether the highway will ever be completed. If finished, the Nashua-Hudson Circumferential Highway would be part of the Everett Turnpike, and would rejoin the mainline highway at a hypothetical Exit 9 in northern Nashua. In 2015, after four years of construction, the city completed the Broad Street Parkway, which connects Exit 6 of the Everett Turnpike to the city's downtown area ("Tree Streets" neighborhood), with

4028-548: Is via the on-board Matrox G200eW with 8 MB memory Each server comes with Ethernet NICs on the motherboard. These 'on board' NICs connect to a switch or pass-through module inserted in the A1 or the A2 bay at the back of the switch. To allow more NICs or non-Ethernet I/O each blade has two so-called mezzanine slots: slot B connecting to the switches/modules in bay B1 and B2 and slot C connecting to C1/C2: An M1000e chassis holds up to 6 switches or pass-through modules. For redundancy one would normally install switches in pairs:

4134-407: The 10GBASE-KR standard on fabric A ( 10GBASE-KR standard is supported on fabrics B&C). To have 10 Gb Ethernet on fabric A or 16 Gb Fibre Channel or InfiniBand FDR (and faster) on fabrics B&C, midplane 1.1 is required. Current versions of the enclosure come with midplane 1.1 and it is possible to upgrade the midplane. Via the markings on the back-side of the enclosure, just above

4240-454: The 10GBASE-KR standard. The external interfaces are mainly meant to be used as uplinks or stacking-interfaces but can also be used to connect non-blade servers to the network. On the link-level PCM switches support link aggregation : both static LAG's as well as LACP. As all PowerConnect switches the switches are running RSTP as Spanning Tree Protocol , but it is also possible to run MSTP or Multiple Spanning Tree. The internal ports towards

4346-416: The 2020 census , it had a population of 91,322, the second-largest in northern New England after nearby Manchester . It is one of two county seats of New Hampshire's most populous county, Hillsborough ; the other being Manchester. Built around the now-departed textile industry, in recent decades Nashua's economy has shifted to the financial services , high tech , and defense industries as part of

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4452-522: The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC). The Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps (1997, 1998, 2004, 2007 Drum Corps International Division II Champions and 2019 Open Class Champions) is based in Nashua. The city's government is headed by a mayor and fifteen aldermen : six at-large aldermen elected three at a time every four years, and nine ward aldermen, one for each ward in the city, elected every two years. In

4558-536: The KVM switch . A blade enclosure offers centralized management for the servers and I/O systems of the blade-system. Most servers used in the blade-system offer an iDRAC card and one can connect to each servers iDRAC via the M1000e management system. It is also possible to connect a virtual KVM switch to have access to the main-console of each installed server. In June 2013, Dell introduced the PowerEdge VRTX , which

4664-535: The Nashua River and Salmon Brook , tributaries of the Merrimack. The Nashua River roughly bisects the city. Pennichuck Brook forms the city's northern boundary. The highest point in Nashua is Gilboa Hill in the southern part of the city, at 426 feet (130 m) above sea level . Nashua has a four-season humid continental climate , which has transitioned to the hot summer subtype, ( Köppen Dfa ), as of

4770-554: The Nashua Transit System , which has nine scheduled bus routes in the city. Boston Express , a subsidiary of Concord Coach Lines , operates a Nashua-Boston bus line that runs out of the Nashua Transit Center off Exit 8 on the Everett Turnpike. This line transports passengers to South Station and Logan International Airport in Boston. Nashua Airport (Boire Field), a general aviation facility,

4876-611: The New Hampshire General Court , Nashua is represented in the House by Hillsborough County's 3rd (Ward 4), 4th (Ward 2), 5th (Ward 1), 6th (Ward 3), 7th (Ward 7), 8th (Ward 6), 9th (Ward 5), 10th (Ward 9), and 11th (Ward 8) districts and in the Senate by District 12 (Wards 1, 2, and 5, shared with Hollis , Mason , Brookline , Greenville , New Ipswich , and Rindge ) and District 13 (Wards 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9). In

4982-627: The New Hampshire Senate , Nashua is represented by two state senators: In the New Hampshire Executive Council , Nashua is included within the 5th District and is currently represented by Republican Dave Wheeler. Nashua is included within New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district and is currently represented (until 2025) by Democrat Ann McLane Kuster in the U.S. House of Representatives ; Kuster

5088-470: The PowerEdge VRTX system. Amulet HotKey offers a modified M630 server that can be fitted with a GPU or Teradici PCoIP Mezzanine module. A half-height server with up to 2x 28-core Xeon Scalable CPU. Supported on both the M1000e and PowerEdge VRTX chassis. The server can support up to 16 DDR4 RDIMM memory slots for up to 1024 GB RAM and 2 drive bays supporting SAS / SATA or NVMe drives (with an adapter). The server uses iDRAC 9. A full-height server with

5194-462: The economic recovery that started in the 1980s in the Greater Boston region. Major private employers in the city include Nashua Corporation , BAE Systems , and Teradyne . The city also hosts two major regional medical centers, Southern New Hampshire Medical Center and St. Joseph Hospital . The South Nashua commercial district is a major regional shopping destination, lying directly on

5300-476: The new PC-M8024-k switch the switches need to run firmware version 4.2 or higher. In principle one can only stack switches of the same family; thus stacking multiple PCM6220's together or several PCM8024-k. The only exception is the capability to stack the blade PCM6348 together with the rack-switch PCT7024 or PCT7048. Stacks can contain multiple switches within one M1000e chassis but one can also stack switches from different chassis to form one logical switch. At

5406-466: The upper blades and 9-16 are directly beneath 1-8. When using full-height blades one use slot n (where n=1 to 8) and slot n+8 Integrated at the bottom of the front-side is a connection-option for 2 x USB , meant for a mouse and keyboard, as well as a standard VGA monitor connection (15 pin). Next to this is a power-button with power-indication. Next to this is a small LCD screen with navigation buttons which allows one to get system-information without

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5512-524: The 1991 to 2020 normals, with short spring and autumn transitions, long humid and warm to hot summers, and cold winters full of snow. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from 22.7 °F (−5.2 °C) in January to 70.9 °F (21.6 °C) in July. On average, there are 9.4 days of 90 °F (32 °C)+ highs and 8.7 days of sub-0 °F (−18 °C) lows. Precipitation is well-spread throughout

5618-442: The 2nd on-board NIC goes to interface 5 of fabric A2) I/O modules in fabric B1/B2 will connect to the (optional) Mezzanine card B or 2 in the server and fabric C to Mezzanine C or 3. All modules can be inserted or removed on a running enclosure ( Hot swapping ) An M1000e holds up to 32 quarter-height, 16 half-height blades or 8 full-height blades or a mix of them (e.g. 2 full height + 12 half-height). The 1/4 height blades require

5724-770: The AA Nashua Pirates ; the AA Nashua Angels; and the A Nashua Dodgers , the first racially integrated professional baseball team in the 20th century. After minor league baseball began in Nashua in 1885, the team hosted the Nashua Millionaires franchise, with the team playing in the New England League from 1901 to 1933. In collegiate sports, Nashua is home to the Rivier University Raiders, who compete in

5830-684: The Dell Interop 2012 in Las Vegas Dell announced the first FTOS based blade-switch: the Force10 MXL 10/40Gpbs blade switch, and later a 10/40 Gbit/s concentrator. The FTOS MXL 40 Gb was introduced on 19 July 2012. The MXL provides 32 internal 10 Gbit/s links (2 ports per blade in the chassis), two QSFP+ 40 Gbit/s ports and two empty expansion slots allowing a maximum of 4 additional QSFP+ 40 Gbit/s ports or 8 10 Gbit/s ports. Each QSFP+ port can be used for

5936-591: The I/O modules: if an "arrow down" can be seen above the 6 I/O slots the 1.0 midplane was installed in the factory; if there are 3 or 4 horizontal bars, midplane 1.1 was installed. As it is possible to upgrade the midplane the outside markings are not decisive: via the CMC management interface actual installed version of the midplane is visible Each M1000e enclosure can hold up to 32 quarter-height, 16 half-height blades or 8 full-height or combinations (e.g. 1 full-height + 14 half-height). The slots are numbered 1-16 where 1-8 are

6042-565: The Intel 5520 chipset. Via 18 DIMM slots up to 288 Gb DDR3 RAM can put on this blade and the standard choice of on-board Ethernet NICs based on Broadcom or Intel and one or two Mezzanine cards for Ethernet, Fibre Channel or InfiniBand. A full-height server with 4x 8 core Intel Xeon E5-4600 CPU, running the Intel C600 chipset and offering up to 1.5 TB RAM memory via 48 DIMM slots. Up to four on-blade 2,5" SAS HDD/SSD or two PCIe flash SSD are installable for local storage. The M820 offers

6148-424: The Intel C600 chipset and offering up to 384 Gb RAM memory via 12 DIMM slots. Two on-blade disks (2.5-inch PCIe SSD, SATA HDD or SAS HDD) are installable for local storage and a choice of Intel or Broadcom LOM + 2 Mezzanine slots for I/O. The M520 can also be used in the PowerEdge VRTX system. A half-height server with a Quad-Core Intel Xeon and 8 DIMM slots for up to 64 GB RAM A half-height server with

6254-642: The Intel E 7510 chipset. A choice of built-in NICs for Ethernet, Fibre Channel or InfiniBand Also a full-height 11G server using the AMD Opteron 6100 or 6200 series CPU with the AMD SR5670 and SP5100 chipset. Memory via 32 DDR3 DIMM slots offering up to 512 Gb RAM. On-board up to two 2,5 inch HDD or SSD's. The blade comes with a choice of on-board NICs and up to two mezzanine cards for dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet, dual-port FCoE, dual-port 8 Gb fibre-channel or dual port Mellanox Infiniband. Video

6360-725: The Jackson Manufacturing Company was incorporated. In 1836, the New Hampshire half of Dunstable was renamed "Nashua", after the Nashua River; the Dunstable name lives on across the Massachusetts border. The Nashua River was named by the Nashaway people, and in the Penacook language it means "beautiful stream with a pebbly bottom", with an alternative meaning of "land between two rivers". In 1842,

6466-471: The KR or IEEE 802.3ap standards All PowerConnect M-series ("PCM") switches are multi-layer switches thus offering both layer 2 (Ethernet) options as well as layer 3 or IP routing options. Depending on the model the switches offer internally 1 Gbit/s or 10 Gbit/s interfaces towards the blades in the chassis. The PowerConnect M series with "-k" in the model-name offer 10 Gb internal connections using

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6572-417: The M1000e chassis: this SAN will take the same space in the enclosure as two half-height blades next to each other. Apart from the form factor (the physical size, getting power from the enclosure system etc.) it is a "normal" iSCSI SAN: the blades in the (same) chassis communicate via Ethernet and the system does require an accepted Ethernet blade-switch in the back (or a pass-through module + rack-switch): there

6678-456: The M420 has some consequences for the system: many people have reserved 16 IP addresses per chassis to support the "automatic IP address assignment" for the iDRAC management card in a blade, but as it is now possible to run 32 blades per chassis people might need to change their management IP assignment for the iDRAC. To support the M420 server one needs to run CMC firmware 4.1 or later and one needs

6784-477: The MXL also supports a 4x10 Gb SFP+ and a 4x10GbaseT module. All Ethernet extension modules for the MXL can also be used for the rack based N4000 series (fka Power connector 8100). The MXL switches also support Fibre Channel over Ethernet so that server-blades with a converged network adapter Mezzanine card can be used for both data as storage using a Fibre Channel storage system. The MXL 10/40 Gbit/s blade switch will run FTOS and because of this will be

6890-419: The Massachusetts border and taking advantage of New Hampshire's lack of sales tax. It is anchored by the Pheasant Lane Mall and numerous smaller shopping centers. It is one of several U.S. cities nicknamed Gate City , which references a reputation for being a travel gateway—in this case between the Boston region and New Hampshire. A number of civic groups and institutions have adopted the title. The area

6996-534: The Mezzanine card it is different: the connections from Mezzanine B on the PE M420 are "load-balanced" between the B and C-fabric of the M1000e: the Mezzanine card in "slot A" (top slot in the sleeve) connects to Fabric C while "slot B" (the second slot from the top) connects to fabric B, and that is then repeated for C and D slots in the sleeve. A half-height server with up to 2x 8 core Intel Xeon E5-2400 CPU, running

7102-572: The PS4100 and PS6100 series systems which continue to be sold. The PS4100 series consists of 4 rack-models and one PS-M4110 for placement in the Dell M1000e blade enclosure. This model is described separately below. The PS61x0 series consists of two main models: PS6100 and PS6110 for 1G or 10G iSCSI Ethernet ports on the controller. All arrays support RAID levels 6,10 and 50. For the PS6100 series and PS6110 series there are 6 sub-models, based on

7208-439: The PS4100, PS6100 and PS6200 while the comparable systems with 10 Gbit/s Ethernet connections are PS4110, PS6110 and PS6210. There have been a number of previous generations, and as long as the software is updated on older systems they can work with the newer models. Within each series there are several options allowing for different types and sizes of hard disk drives or solid-state drives . EqualLogic options combine both in

7314-627: The SAN goes via the chassis-management interface (CMC). Because the iSCSI uses 10 Gb interfaces the SAN should be used in combination with one of the 10G blade switches: the PCM 8024-k or the Force10 MXL switch. The enclosure's mid-plane hardware version should be at least version 1.1 to support 10 Gb KR connectivity At the rear side of the enclosure one will find the power-supplies, fan-trays, one or two chassis-management modules (the CMC's) and

7420-400: The average family size was 3.01. In the city the population was spread out, with 22.1% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 27.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.5 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.8 males. In 2011 the estimated median income for

7526-524: The back of the enclosure. Also possible to use 10G Passthrough modules and external switches. The PS65x0 series consists of in total 6 models scalable SAN solutions. As with the other series the PS6500 is using Gigabit Ethernet NICs and the PS6510 offers 10 Gbit/s SFP+ interfaces. 1000-1030 VA 1400 VA Peak Dell Fluid File System is available in combination with an EQLX array for the storage. FluidFS

7632-540: The back. The original midplane 1.0 capabilities are Fabric A - Ethernet 1 Gb; Fabrics B&C - Ethernet 1 Gb, 10 Gb, 40 Gb - Fibre Channel 4 Gb, 8 Gb - IfiniBand DDR, QDR, FDR10. The enhanced midplane 1.1 capabilities are Fabric A - Ethernet 1 Gb, 10 Gb; Fabrics B&C - Ethernet 1 Gb, 10 Gb, 40 Gb - Fibre Channel 4 Gb, 8 Gb, 16 Gb - IfiniBand DDR, QDR, FDR10, FDR. The original M1000e enclosures came with midplane version 1.0 but that midplane did not support

7738-490: The blades (or even only a SD-card with boot-OS like VMware ESX ). It is also possible to use completely diskless blades that boot via PXE or external storage. But regardless of the local and boot-storage: the majority of the data used by blades will be stored on SAN or NAS external from the blade-enclosure. Dell has put the EqualLogic PS M4110 models of iSCSI storage arrays that are physically installed in

7844-476: The blades and standard two 40 Gbit/s QSFP+ uplinks and offers two extension slots. Depending on one's requirements one can get extension modules for 40 Gb QSFP+ ports, 10 Gb SFP+ or 1-10 GBaseT copper interfaces. One can assign up to 16 x 10 Gb uplinks to one's distribution or core layer. The I/O aggregator supports FCoE and DCB ( Data center bridging ) features Dell also offered some Cisco Catalyst switches for this blade enclosure. Cisco offers

7950-410: The blades are by default set as edge or "portfast" ports. Another feature is to use link-dependency. One can, for example, configure the switch that all internal ports to the blades are shut down when the switch gets isolated because it loses its uplink to the rest of the network. All PCM switches can be configured as pure layer-2 switches or they can be configured to do all routing: both routing between

8056-448: The bottom of the enclosure there are 6 bays for power-supply units. A standard M1000e operates with three PSU's The area in between offers 3 x 3 bays for cooling-fans (left - middle - right) and up to 6 I/O modules: three modules to the left of the middle fans and three to the right. The I/O modules on the left are the I/O modules numbered A1, B1 and C1 while the right hand side has places for A2, B2 and C2. The A fabric I/O modules connect to

8162-433: The city and river. Nashua Corp. was a leading producer of floppy disks through the early 1990s, making the Nashua name well known in the world of personal computers . Defense contractor BAE Systems (formerly Sanders Associates ), computer firm Dell , and software company Oracle Corporation are the largest representatives of the high-tech industry prominent in the region. The Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center

8268-567: The city, with the Nashua line ending at the city dance hall. The trolley system decreased in popularity in the 20th century, finally closing in 1932. Efforts are being made to extend the MBTA Commuter Rail's Lowell Line from Lowell to Manchester, stopping at Nashua along the way. The state legislature created the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority (NHRTA) in 2007 with the goal of overseeing

8374-432: The city. The population density was 2,719.9 inhabitants per square mile (1,050.2/km ). There were 37,168 housing units at an average density of 1,202.8 per square mile (464.4/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 83.4% White , 2.7% African American , 0.3% Native American , 6.5% Asian , 0.03% Pacific Islander , 4.6% from some other race , and 2.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.8% of

8480-418: The configured VLAN's as external routing. Besides static routes the switches also support OSPF and RIP routing. When using the switch as routing switch one need to configure vlan interfaces and assign an IP address to that vlan interface: it is not possible to assign an IP address directly to a physical interface. All PowerConnect blade switches, except for the original PC-M8024, can be stacked. To stack

8586-533: The development of commuter rail in the state. The proposed line would connect Lowell, Massachusetts , to Bedford, New Hampshire , with the end station being near the Manchester–Boston Regional Airport . As of November, 2022, an ongoing study by AECOM and the State of New Hampshire for design and financing is due to be completed by early 2023, and the project is awaiting federal funding. Nashua

8692-570: The enclosure one can place extra mezzanine cards on the blade. The same applies to adding a Fibre Channel host bus adapter or a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapter interface. Dell offers the following (converged) Ethernet mezzanine cards for their PowerEdge blades: Apart from the above the following mezzanine cards are available: In most setups the server-blades will use external storage ( NAS using iSCSI , FCoE or Fibre Channel ) in combination with local server-storage on each blade via hard disk drives or SSDs on

8798-591: The first M1000e I/O product without a Web graphical user interface . The MXL can either forward the FCoE traffic to an upstream switch or, using a 4 port 8 Gb FC module, perform the FCF function, connecting the MXL to a full FC switch or directly to a FC SAN. In October 2012 Dell also launched the I/O Aggregator for the M1000e chassis running on FTOS . The I/O Aggregator offers 32 internal 10 Gb ports towards

8904-457: The geographic center of the city, Downtown Nashua is the oldest of the commercial districts, featuring commercial, entertainment, and dining venues, near historic commercial buildings and homes as well. Recent plans have incorporated the Nashua River into the design of a pedestrian-friendly walkway. The downtown Nashua Riverwalk is a large, public/private venture funded through the use of tax increment financing (TIF). Amherst Street ( Route 101A )

9010-413: The goal of easing traffic congestion and opening up Nashua's old mill-yard as part of the city's economic development. The new parkway provides a third crossing of the Nashua River and a way for traffic to avoid Library Hill, a busy downtown intersection. The idea of a road connecting Broad Street with Hollis Street within the city had been discussed since the 1960s. Public transportation is provided by

9116-586: The iSCSI traffic and one management interface. A typical array has 2 or more iSCSI Ethernet interfaces and one management interface. The arrays with model PS XX00 have Gigabit Ethernet ports while the PS XX10 offer 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for iSCSI traffic and a 10 Mbit /s / 100 Mbit/s management port. Depending on the model the interfaces can be either copper-based Gigabit Ethernet or 10GBASE-T or fiber-optic interfaces using small form-factor pluggable transceivers . Controllers can be readily identified by

9222-525: The mills in the city over an attempted wage cut and hours increase. The textile business started moving to the South during the Great Depression , with the last mill near Nashua closing in 1949. But then Sanders Associates , a newly created defense firm that is now part of BAE Systems , moved into one of the closed mills and helped restart the city's economy. Sanders Associates also played

9328-537: The need to access the CMC/management system of the enclosure. Basic status and configuration information is available via this display. To operate the display one can pull it towards one and tilt it for optimal view and access to the navigation button. For quick status checks, an indicator light sits alongside the LCD display and is always visible, with a blue LED indicating normal operation and an orange LED indicating

9434-429: The northeast along the two-lane Henri A. Burque Highway to Concord Street and then heads north into the town of Merrimack. Other New Hampshire state highways in the city include: Maps of the Nashua area often show a stretch of freeway forming a circumferential highway through Nashua and the neighboring town of Hudson . Only a small section of the south end of this highway (Exit 2 off U.S. Route 3 ) has been built, and it

9540-539: The now bankrupt Boston Surface Railroad Company for the creation of a rail line. The fire department of Nashua, Nashua Fire, has 176 full-time members and is responsible for 31.9 square miles (83 km ), protecting a population of 91,322. In the city, there are six stations. There is one fire chief, one assistant chief, and four deputy chiefs. The department has six engines, three ladder trucks, one haz-mat/rescue truck (known as Special Hazards 1), two brush trucks, two spare engines, and one spare ladder truck. Nashua uses

9646-402: The on-board I/O controllers which in most cases will be a dual 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet NIC. When the blade has a dual port on-board 1 Gb NIC the first NIC will connect to the I/O module in fabric A1 and the 2nd NIC will connect to fabric A2 (and the blade-slot corresponds with the internal Ethernet interface: e.g. the on-board NIC in slot 5 will connect to interface 5 of fabric A1 and

9752-410: The population. There were 35,044 households, out of which 28.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.9% were married couples living together, 11.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.6% were non-families. 29.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and

9858-474: The rival Amoskeag Manufacturing Company upriver in Manchester , the Nashua mills prospered until about World War I , after which a slow decline set in. Water power was replaced with newer forms of energy to run factories, such as coal, and cotton could be manufactured into fabric where it grew, saving transportation costs. In 1922, it was affected by the 1922 New England Textile Strike , shutting down

9964-481: The same capabilities as the half-height M610 but offering an expansion module containing x16 PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 expansion slots that can support up to two standard full-length/full-height PCIe cards. A half-height server with up to 2x 12 core Intel Xeon E5-2600 or Xeon E5-2600 v2 CPUs, running the Intel C600 chipset and offering up to 768 GB RAM memory via 24 DIMM slots. Two on-blade disks (2,5" PCIe SSD, SATA HDD or SAS HDD) are installable for local storage with

10070-688: The same chassis and automatically migrate the most frequently accessed data to the SSDs. All PS series systems, except the PS-M4110 blade chassis system, are 19-inch rack systems in a 2 rack unit form factor or a 4 RU chassis for some of the PS61x0 models and the PS65x0 dense models. EqualLogic Arrays can be combined with up to 16 arrays per group. Groups can mix different members, including multiple hardware generations, as well as different RAID types, in

10176-469: The same family, based on the same fabrics ( Broadcom ) and running the same firmware-version. All the M-series switches are OSI layer 3 capable: so one can also say that these devices are layer 2 Ethernet switches with built-in router or layer3 functionality. The most important difference between the M-series switches and the Dell PowerConnect classic switches (e.g. the 8024 model )

10282-539: The switch in bay A2 is normally the same as the A1 switch and connects the blades on-motherboard NICs to connect to the data or storage network. Standard blade-servers have one or more built-in NICs that connect to the 'default' switch-slot (the A-fabric ) in the enclosure (often blade-servers also offer one or more external NIC interfaces at the front of the blade) but if one want the server to have more physical (internal) interfaces or connect to different switch-blades in

10388-550: The switch to full capacity when using blades that offer 4 internal NICs on the A fabric (=the internal/on motherboard NIC). The M6348 can be stacked with other M6348 but also with the PCT7000 series rack-switches. The M8024 and M8024-k offer 16 internal autosensing 1 or 10 Gb interfaces and up to 8 external ports via one or two I/O modules each of which can offer: 4 × 10 Gb SFP+ slots, 3 x CX4 10 Gb (only) copper or 2 x 10G BaseT 1/10 Gb RJ-45 interfaces. The PCM8024

10494-418: The town of Nottingham West (now the town of Hudson, New Hampshire ) created out of the eastern portion. The previously disputed boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was fixed in 1741 when the governorships of the two provinces were separated. As a result, the township of Dunstable was divided in two. Tyngsborough and some of Dunstable remained in Massachusetts, while Dunstable, New Hampshire ,

10600-476: The town split into two towns. Eleven years later, they joined back together under the name "Nashua", and were re-incorporated as a city. During the split, the northern area, known today as "French Hill", called itself " Nashville ", while the southern part kept the name Nashua. Six railroad lines crossed the mill town , namely the Nashua and Lowell , Worcester and Nashua , Nashua and Acton, Nashua and Wilton, Concord and Nashua, and Rochester railroads. Like

10706-469: The type of disks used: The PS-M 4110 is a SAN array in the form-factor of a dual 1/2 height blade-server and can be installed in the Dell M1000e blade-chassis. There are 4 models of this "datacenter in a box" solution where servers, storage and networking are all combined in one blade-enclosure The SAN communicates with the blade servers in the chassis and/or external servers via Force10 MXL switches , PowerConnect M8024-K or Brocade based PC-M8428-K in

10812-433: The year, though winter is the driest. Snowfall, the heaviest of which typically comes from nor'easters , averages around 55 inches (140 cm) per season, but can vary widely from year to year. Nashua recorded the New Hampshire state record high temperature of 106 °F (41 °C) during the deadly 1911 heat wave . As of the census of 2010, there were 86,494 people, 35,044 households, and 21,876 families residing in

10918-646: Was filmed in 2004 at Nashua High School North . Russian dressing was created in Nashua by James E. Colburn, likely in the 1910s. In the American version of The Office , a branch of the fictional paper company Dunder Mifflin is located in Nashua and features in several episodes. Dell M1000e#MXL 10 The Dell blade server products are built around their M1000e enclosure that can hold their server blades, an embedded EqualLogic iSCSI storage area network and I/O modules including Ethernet , Fibre Channel and InfiniBand switches. The M1000e fits in

11024-568: Was incorporated in 1746 from the northern section of the town. Like many 19th century riverfront New England communities, New Hampshire's Dunstable was developed during the Industrial Revolution with textile mills operated from water power . In 1823, the Nashua Manufacturing Company was incorporated. The company eventually had four mills and employed approximately 1,000 people. The following year,

11130-527: Was part of a 200-square-mile (520 km ) tract of land in Massachusetts called "Dunstable", named after Edward Tyng of Dunstable in England. Located at the confluence of the Nashua and Merrimack rivers, Dunstable was first settled about 1654 as a fur trading town. Nashua lies approximately in the center of the original 1673 grant. In 1732, Dunstable was split along the Merrimack River , with

11236-426: Was the highest price paid for a company financed by venture investors at the time. At the time of acquisition, the company was backed by four venture capital investors: Charles River Ventures, TD Capital Ventures, Focus Ventures and Sigma Partners. EqualLogic systems use iSCSI via either Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers. The now end of life (EOL) systems with 1 Gbit/s connections are

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