Server blade

A server blade or just blade is a self-contained server on which each World of Warcraft realm runs. Multiple blades fit into an enclosure which provides the power, cooling, connectivity, and management to each blade. The blades themselves contain only the core processing elements, making them hot-swappable. HP refers to the entire package as a BladeSystem. By consolidating and housing multiple servers in a single enclosure, energy costs are significantly reduced, cabling is drastically reduced and managing servers is simplified.Charity Auction on Blizzard's website
Blizzard has auctioned off retired blades in the past for charity, including a 15th Anniversary one for the BlizzCon 2019 charity auction.
==Gallery==
Arygos server blade.jpg|Arygos
Lightbringer server blade.jpg|Lightbringer
Lightbringer server blade2.jpg|Lightbringer
ServerHardware.jpg|Lightbringer
The Scryers server blade.jpg|The Scryers
Malygos server blade.jpg|Malygos
Malygos server blade2.jpg|Malygos
Barthilas server blade.jpg|Barthilas, located at a museum
Minahonda server blade.jpg|Minahonda
Azuremyst server blade.jpg|Azuremyst
Alterac Mountains server blade.jpg|Alterac Mountains, taken apart by iFixIt
EU The Venture Co Server Blade.jpg|The Venture Co. (EU)
15th Anniversary Server blade.jpg|WoW's 15th Anniversary
Server Blade Tirion.jpg|Tirion
Nathrezim EU-DE Server Blade.jpg|Nathrezim [DE]
Nathrezim EU-DE Server Blade 2.jpg.png|A different Nathrezim [DE] blade.
Nathrezim EU-DE Server Blade Plaque.jpg|Nathrezim [DE] - Plaque close up
File:Ghostlands-de-serverblade.jpg|Ghostlands [DE]
==Trivia==
*Carlos Lucero has the Proudmoore server blade.BlizzCon 2018 - The Vault | World of Warcraft
* has the Aegwynn server blade.
*The have the The Venture Co. (EU) server blade.
*German (DE) server blades, have different details when compared to the other blades. Presumably because the plaque/plexiglass were done local to Germany, the contractor might not have had the same service capabilities like the ones in US for example. Subsequently, the plaques of DE server blades are a bit thicker, they do not have a lamination layer over it (eg. they are not glossy/reflective) and represent a black textured rectangle with a brushed metallic look to the details (text and border). The brushed look is directional, but depending on how the plaque ended up on the template, the direction can be seen in both up/down and left/right. Additionaly, the plexiglass cover with the World of Warcraft logo is not semi transparent like the rest of the world's server blades, but fully opaque.This can be seen in the picture examples in the gallery. There are at least three different DE server blades, all sharing the same characteristics.
*The 10 year anniversary server blades were specifically the HPE BL20p and HPE BL25p models. They can be differentiated by the number of RAM slots. BL25p has two rows of 4 RAM slots either side of the CPU slots, whereas the BL20p has less. Possibly, other server blade models from the same line were used. 
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