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Then you've probably never had to plan cooling for a server room. BTU's are often the only metric you get from the servers datasheet.
by y4mi 9y ago
Then you've probably never had to plan cooling for a server room. BTU's are often the only metric you get from the servers datasheet.
- walrus01 9y agoI find that these are occasionally very inaccurate. If possible put a prototypical server on a watt meter and artificially load cpu, disk and ram to determine its real world max wattage and thermal values. Then compare to what its wattage is while idle.
- altcognito 9y agoAt the scale of a server room, you're estimating over an aggregate and probably want some overhead/room to expand.
- walrus01 9y agoAt the scale of a small to medium colocation facility you define W per cabinet... Such as a typical 44U height cabinet in a row designed for front to back airflow. 5kW per cabinet would be a normal low range, up to 10-12kW. Then figure out your floor spacing and sq ft usage to determine how many cabinets.
- make3 9y ago"Then you've probably never had to plan cooling for a server room." For an American one you mean
- y4mi 9y agoi'm german, so no. but i admit that its incredibly rare to find localized data sheets. they're generally en_us, not that it really matters.