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 be for over 10,000W. (30x208x1.73 for 30A 3 phase) With our 1u servers, we're able to get about 12 or so in a rack with a 20A 208V single phase (my exact budget numbers are behind a vpn I don't feel like firing up...;) plus a pair of switches. At 370W (peak), i'd need 15540W to power 42 of them, 27,972W at the breaker (I prefer 75 to 80% of breakered capacity vs the NEC's 85%). Works out to something like 4 30A 208v single phase circuits and 1 20A. So 29120W at the breaker. That's a lot of hot air. ;) ...david --- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais@icantclick.org http://www.expita.com/nomime.html