Every 100 watts of power consumed will cost about $60 per year, at $.068 per kilowatt hour. Converting the z900's 4.5 kva to watts yields 3600 watts, which translates to $2,160 to run it for a year. An average server consumes 320 watts (more or less depending on installed features) which translates to $192 per year. Consolidating 12 servers pays the z900's electric bill. Move 9 more servers to the z900 and you've paid the electric bill for a 1.6TB Ficon equipped Shark to store the data. The z900, or the z800 for that matter, have static maintenance and electric costs that don't change no matter how many servers you consolidate, while each server is an additional line item on your budget.
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 08:55, you wrote: > Does anyone have the details on the SUN models and IBM mainframe (z800 or > z900?) Aren't the z800's the most energy efficient? >
