[AusNOG] What's Typical Power Density in Colo?

[Paul Wilkins]

It's pretty easy to do the sums on what an outage will cost you vs the cost
of whatever DR you're implementing.


Paul Wilkins

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:13 PM, John Edwards <john at netniche.com.au> wrote:

> On 03/05/2012, at 8:13 PM, jason andrade wrote:
>
> > Is it fair to say that expecting 10-15kW in a rack is _not_ something
> > most DCs are interested in doing ?
> <snip>
> >   It's not uncommon for it to be perfectly
> > acceptable to have N+1 aircon but that's not so common say for your
> > primary DC switchboard.. where 2N is much nicer?..
>
> I think that in an age of cloud computing, clustering technology aimed at
> commodity hardware, and cheap international networks - if your solution
> needs 2N power on a single 15kw rack cooled to 22 degrees with a five-nines
> SLA, you're doing it wrong.
>
> If you're a datacentre providing this facility to someone willing to pay
> for it - you're doing it right :)
>
> John
>
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