No, definitely full rack limitation. I asked if there was a single rack
in another part of the building (this is a large data center) which
could take 5 Kw as this is what we would require, but they said we need
to expand to five racks.
/Kevin
David Golden wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 20:47, Kevin Brennan wrote:
>>> We currently have a 1/4 of a rack filled and it is drawing 1.38Kw of
>> power, this is 7x1U servers and 2x1U switchs. We are told by our
>> hosting centre (don't want to mention names) we are exceeding the
>> power draw for a full rack
>>>> That seems suspiciously low to qualify as a "full rack". 4x that I
> could understand - though it would indeed still be terribly low for the
> modern world of rack-dense-1U and blade systems, a lot of server room
> designs used to allow for only 5 or 6 kW/rack until relatively recently.
>> - So maybe they meant if you scaled your load up to a full rack you'd be
> exceeding their limit?
>>>>
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