A little bigger than your handful of servers, but we for a while self-hosted about 2 racks worth of equipment, which consisted of a UPS and between 15 and 30 servers. We needed two air conditioners (for redundancy), not counting the building AC to cool them. When we moved them out, our power bills went down by about $1000 per month. On top of that, we didn't have external power generation for when the UPS runs out of juice. Then there's the noise. Older generation Dell hardware is especially loud. Their new servers (T-series and R-series) are MUCH quieter though. There's a lot of benefit to using colo....
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Dustin Puryear <[email protected]>wrote: > We’re moving a few servers from a colo back to the office. Basically, we > have the following: > > > > 2 Dell 1850 – dual power supply - 1U > > 1 Dell 1950 – dual power supply - 1U > > 1 Dell NAS – dual power supply - 2U > > > > We have the space for the servers. We’re only concerned about the UPS and > A/C. I can calculate the UPS needs, although if someone knows of an online > calculator to do this that would be great. > > > > But the real question is A/C and heat. The goal is to put this into a rack > in a small server closet, along with a VOIP PBX, ASA 5505, 48-port switch, > and aforementioned UPS. > > > > The new office is being designed as we speak, so we have some say in terms > of ductwork and airflow in the server closet. However, we don’t have much > impact on the dimensions. The server closet is going to have enough room for > one rack and the ability to sneak behind the rack itself. > > > > What are your thoughts on our A/C and airflow needs? How do I calculate our > needs the best? And should we look into a rack/cabinet that has some type of > A/C and airflow solution built into it? > > > > --- > > Puryear IT, LLC - We see IT differently. > > Baton Rouge, LA - 225-706-8414 > > http://www.puryear-it.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
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