Resource Pool

The Resource Pool contains a one-blade to twelve-blade blade system chassis. Each chassis contains server blades that you can provision to a server farm. The resource pool within an I-Fabric starts out as a blank physical infrastructure with no predefined logical structure. The infrastructure can be configured into many different logical structures under the control of the N1 Provisioning Server software. The different logical structures, called logical server farms, are dynamic and securely partitioned.

The following diagram shows an example of the Resource Pool (unallocated server blades) and two farms (allocated server blades).

Figure 1–3 Example Server Farms and Resource Pool

Each server blade in a farm is allocated to the farm as an individual server, and securely networked to prevent access from other server farms. When the user is finished using a farm, the server blades that were assigned to the farm are returned to the Resource Pool.