On April 8, 2013 Hewlett-Packard took a fairly dramatic departure from traditional server designs with the release of the Moonshot Server.
Moonshot uses low-power smartphone style processors to optimize data center servers. Although, Moonshot looks traditional, the Moonshot 1500 Chassis contains shared power, cooling, networking, storage and 45 pluggable servers. There are several chipsets available.
Instead of putting together another server that requires intense power and cooling, HP reconstructed the server design. Moonshot provides a vast amount of resources such as scalability while reducing the use of physical space, cooling and power.
Many companies partnered with HP on the Moonshot Project including: AMD, Intel, ARM, Citrix, Cloudera, Redhat, SUSE and many others.
Disadvantages for the Moonshot server could range from an unenthusiastic entrance to the risk of a minimal hardware component failure that could bring down 45 critical servers because an entire rack of servers are set in one box.
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