nanog mailing list archives
Re: rack power question
From: "Duane Waddle" <duane.waddle () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:31:53 -0500
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Justin M. Streiner <streiner () cluebyfour org> wrote:
While there are certainly customers out there who think along these lines, most of the enterprise customers I've run across in the past who would be in the market for data center colo would just as soon play the how-many- servers-can-i-jam-into-this-rack game, which is one part of the how-many-racks-can-i-jam-into-this-cage game for some folks... You might get some traction with the responsible deployment angle, but I could only guess at how much traction...
Speaking as one who used to play both of those games, it's a hard habit to break. The folks paying the bills don't like to see empty space, because they translate that into wasted $$'s. It's especially difficult when trying to justify building out an additional cage (or making the one you have bigger if there's empty adjacent space) because your current one is at max kva per ft^2 - but has physical room for several more racks. The trick for us was getting enough management clue in place to where you (gasp!) plan ahead for your power needs first and make raw ft^2 the secondary concern. --D
Current thread:
- Re: rack power question, (continued)
- Re: rack power question Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 22)
- RE: rack power question Ben Butler (Mar 23)
- RE: rack power question michael.dillon (Mar 23)
- RE: rack power question Alex Rubenstein (Mar 23)
- RE: rack power question Barry Shein (Mar 24)
- Re: rack power question vijay gill (Mar 30)
- Re: rack power question Joel Jaeggli (Mar 23)
- Re: rack power question Marshall Eubanks (Mar 23)
- RE: rack power question Ben Butler (Mar 23)
- RE: rack power question Frank Bulk - iNAME (Mar 24)
- RE: rack power question Justin M. Streiner (Mar 24)
- Re: rack power question Duane Waddle (Mar 24)
- Re: rack power question Deepak Jain (Mar 24)
- RE: rack power question Frank Bulk - iNAME (Mar 24)
- Re: rack power question Paul Vixie (Mar 24)
- RE: rack power question michael.dillon (Mar 25)
- Re: rack power question Adrian Chadd (Mar 25)
- Re: rack power question Leigh Porter (Mar 25)
- Re: rack power question Alexander Harrowell (Mar 25)
- Re: rack power question Leigh Porter (Mar 25)
- Re: rack power question Alexander Harrowell (Mar 25)
- Message not available
- Re: rack power question Alexander Harrowell (Mar 25)
- Re: rack power question Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 22)