208 x 30 = 6240 watts. That is like having 4 portable electric heaters plugged in inside your rack.
Obviously they have to have HVAC capable of pumping that out of the building. From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 11:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT NOC server choice 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 Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 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?
