In some older carrier hotel and IX sites it can be totally common to run out of power and air conditioning capacity in a suite before you run out of physical space. Or run into a power system bottleneck like needing a $70,000 NRC to upgrade new air conditioning and riser power capacity before you can add any more new 208V 20A or 208V 30A circuits.
At a certain point it makes very logical operating-cost sense to consolidate a bunch of older 1RU servers down onto one, newer, physical much more powerful 1RU system (such as a dual socket, 32-cores of Xeon with 128GB of RAM) running xen, kvm or esxi. On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 5:47 AM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > We utilize a combination of blade systems and 1U/2U servers …. Wouldn’t > say blade systems are going away. Basically the biggest sell point for > them is space/power (footprint). If space/power is at a premium (ie. 3rd > party data center) and you need to put many servers into it then it can > make sense …. In our case this is exactly why we continue to deploy Cisco > ACS blade systems in particular – they work well and footprint is small. > > > > In areas where we have abundant space/power then 1U servers are preferred > > > > Paul > > > > > > *From: *Af <[email protected]> on behalf of Josh Luthman < > [email protected]> > *Reply-To: *<[email protected]> > *Date: *Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 4:04 PM > *To: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] OT NOC server choice > > > > Servers for what? > > > > Blades are kind of a thing of the past, I think. It's way easier and > cheaper to do something like HA with ESXi. > > > > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> > Suite 1337 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> > Troy, OH 45373 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> > > > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 2:03 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I need a pair of servers, prefer DC powered but not absolutely stuck on > that. Like to have nice blade server system with hot standby etc. Been > some time since I spec’d out servers. > > > > Any suggestions? > > >
