Hot Diggety! Jeff Wasilko was rumored to have written: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:20:00AM -0500, Dan Foster wrote: > > > Yeah. We can't get enough power to fill our racks with 1U boxes > > > anyway, so we just go with 2U or larger. > > > > I'm a little confused by that logic. :) > > Sorry, long day :)
No worries. :) > > Or was the main factors related to cooling or ease of access to the > > servers' innards, rather than size of the form factor per se? > > Correct. We tend to need a lot of local disks (the DL380 has 8 vs. the 4 > in a DL360), and the extra PCI slot has come in handy too. 1U boxes tend > to be a bit more fiddly internally, and cooling can be more of a > challenge. > > Ease of access in the back of the equipment is also a point, and the > DL380 has a nice display on the front that points out hardware problems. > > We've found it easier to just standardize on HP's 2U box. Ahh! OK, that makes sense. Sure don't disagree regarding the principles! (Certainly paid my dues in crawling over, under, and around everything, as well as dealing with incredibly tight cabling or physical access constraints. And perhaps more than my fair share of muttered comments.) Does make sense; we have a fair amount of HP ProLiant gear dominating data centres for obvious reasons, as well as a few for my own team's nefarious [and according to my Windows colleagues, quite heinous] UNIXy purposes. -Dan _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
