On Apr 3, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning <lann...@lanning.cc> wrote:
> Last time I evaluated going with the high density chassis (both 4x1 and
> blades), I found that unless I went into a brand new data center that
> had enough power to light a city, I was limited to about 16 actual
> servers per rack. ("actual server" = 1 blade or 1 of 4 modules, but not
> 7 of 9...)You definitely need to find a "forward-looking" data-center/colo who recognized the importance of increased density in computing (I'm happy to recommend a couple to you off-list). But this is where, amusingly, small-regional facilities fare better than brand-name-megacorp colo providers. At $JOB[-1], both of the facilities we had cabinets in were "non-brand-name" colo facilities, but had build out top-grade data-centers with an eye towards high-density computing, including in one of the facilities, complete chimneyed hot-aisle containment so that we could put four fully-populated HP c7000 chassis per cabinet without issue. And the data-center was built for row upon row of that. As a perk, those sorts of small providers actually tend to give FAR better service, flexibility, and capability-of-staff, because these are the areas they have to differentiate themselves. D _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
