On Thursday 10 February 2005 01:32 pm, Levy, Alan wrote: > David - thanks. This is what that I was looking for. > Let me add to what Dr. David said with a few metrics. The densely packed servers of today draw between .1 and .7 kVA of power. If you take .3 kVA as an average, it takes only 15 servers to match the 4.5 kVA of a z900. Add more CPUs and internal disk to the servers, and it's not uncommon to find a single server rack that exceeds the power requirements of the zSeries with a Shark thrown in for good measure.
I've heard that it's become difficult to add the required power to some of the buildings in NYC to support the server induced power load. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
