On 4/14/2011 11:36 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > >> I have a Dell PowerEdge T310 *tower* server.. I have to buy an ups by >> apc... anyone could help me giving an hint ? >> a simple "smart ups 1000" could be enough ? > > It depends on how long you want it to run. Your choice is a small UPS > to give your > server just enough time to shut down or a big UPS to allow you to > carry on working > for some time. > > In general a fileserver will only need a minimum of 5 to 10 minutes to > shut down as > your workstations are probably already dead. Obviously this has changed now > that > people have laptops. If you're running big processes on the server then you > need > long enough to let them complete or shut down gracefully. > > Of course this assumes reliable power. If you regularly have outages > or bad brownouts > then scale up.
Don't forget that you need to keep your network equipment powered as well if you expect to do more than a graceful shutdown. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos