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February 22nd, 2005 08:00
Calculating Power Consumption.
I'm looking to calculate the actual power consumption in Amps of specific server configurations I have. (To plan comms room PDU loads).
HP have power claculator spreadsheets for this purpose. Is there a similar Dell offering I can take advantage of? I can't find one.
Thanks
Mark.
HP have power claculator spreadsheets for this purpose. Is there a similar Dell offering I can take advantage of? I can't find one.
Thanks
Mark.
bjirgens
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February 23rd, 2005 09:00
You can download a tool called Rack Advisor from here:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=R73797&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
This will let you populate a rack with equipment and give you power consumption and BTU output. Alternatively just right click on a particular server or storage array etc and it will give you the same power and BTU for that one item only.
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February 23rd, 2005 10:00
Cheers
Mark.
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February 23rd, 2005 12:00
I've checked out the 'Dell Rack Advisor' and it does give info on Amps consumed per server. However, this is a fixed value for all configurations. I presume this is a high figure for a fully kitted out server with max mem, proc's and disks.
If a server is being used with say a single proc, 512 Mb of RAM and just a couple of disks the power consumption is going to be much lower.
This will be good as a rough guide but if anyone has any thoughts on a more accurate method of calacuation it would be appreciated... maybe I'll just get a device that measures it for myself... guess someone must make one.
Cheers
Mark.