Re: rack power question

2008-03-23 Thread Derrick
About 8 months ago we were faced with an expansion issue where our datacenter upgrade was delayed due to permits. At the time sun had just announced their blackbox, now called the S20. During the road trip I got to walk through one of these. I found the cooling aspect to be very interesting.

L3VPN VPNv4 NLRI - Route Reflector Scaling

2008-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
Hello all. (posted to C-NSP too; please excuse the length of the message) Considering the scaling techniques currently available for VPNv4/L3VPN deployments as regards MP-BGP route reflectors, what do folk think is currently the most elegant way to deploy this that provides an even compromise

RE: rack power question

2008-03-23 Thread Ray Burkholder
> Leo Bicknell wrote: > > > > Dual quad-core Xeons in a 1RU form factor. 600W power supply. 600W > > * 42 = 25,200. > > > Supermicro has the "1U Twin" which is 980W for two dual-slot > machines in 1U form factor; > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/6015/SYS-6015TW-TB.cfm > > If

Re: rack power question

2008-03-23 Thread Petri Helenius
Leo Bicknell wrote: Dual quad-core Xeons in a 1RU form factor. 600W power supply. 600W * 42 = 25,200. Supermicro has the "1U Twin" which is 980W for two dual-slot machines in 1U form factor; http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/6015/SYS-6015TW-TB.cfm If you can accommodate that,

Re: rack power question

2008-03-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:02:49PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > Are there cases where more than 6000W per rack would be needed? For a router/switch data points (this is NANOG, after all): http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps5763/prod_brochure0900aecd80

Re: rack power question

2008-03-23 Thread david raistrick
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Justin M. Streiner wrote: and and I do have some that can draw close to or over 3000W on a continuous basis. A fully populated 6513 with power hungry blades could eat 6000W. Easily. The HP blades I have right now are 14 servers in 10u, 6-7,000W. Breaker on it needs to