Blade

[Richard Ford]

G'Day,

The chassis is heavy - about 25Kg for memory with normal power supplies.

It all depends on your raised floor and also how the power is  
routed.  In our racks we have two circuits coming from two separate  
PDU's to not only give more power but also redundancy.

As to power - they are very efficient with their blade power  
scaling.  Also - you can now get Low Voltage and Ultra Low Voltage  
Xeons that lower power to something incredible like 44W at full load.

Right now the heaviest rack we have has two chassis in it and a few  
pe1800's in rack orientation, PE1850's, 2850's, PV124T, PV220S,  
KVM's, extra fan units, environmental monitoring stuff. switches and  
the like and it is all dandy.

You can also try the dell capacity planner online for help too (URL  
escapes me now..)

Cheers,
RF.



On 12 Mar 2007, at 12:46 AM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:

> Hi, Richard:
>
> El Domingo, 11 de Marzo de 2007 06:55, Richard Ford escribió:
>> Using 1955's they are great.
>>
>> Insanely fast - integrated chassis management where you can see power
>> draw and usage and set thermal/power limits.  WHole chassis and
>> blades auto step down to conserve power when idle or main power
>> supplies suffer failure (non redundant, 3+1 or 2+2 redundant).
>
> (...)
>
> Well, I see you are bought up the blade thing.  Just a question,  
> though: what
> about power/AC needs and weigth?  It seems to me I couldn't full up  
> a 42U
> rack with those beasts on  my premises, too weigthy, too power  
> hungry, too
> hot.  What are your experiencies about this?
> -- 
> Jesús M. Navarro
> Jefe de Sistemas y Soporte
> Ándago Ingeniería - www.andago.com
>
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