[AusNOG] Server / Appliance Hardware

[Shane Short]

Hi Ben,

I think you might be confusing power supply rating with actual power 
consumption. A dual processor quad core E5 would be tipping about 
200-300W of actual usage, which would be overkill.

If you're looking super low power, Supermicro have some boxes with the 
8-core Avoton/Rangely Atom CPUs. I've got one at home with 8 hard disks 
running <100W total, so they're pretty miserly.

If you're just looking for DHCP though, you could potentially look at 
something like the Ubiquiti Edgerouter line, which are MIPS based and 
run a vyatta fork, or you could run something from Mikrotik (but I'm not 
that full bottle on their product line, I know Mike from Duxtel is on 
list and could probably steer you to the right product)

-Shane

Ben Cummings wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just wondering if anyone knows where to obtain low powered rack-mount
> hardware with redundant power.
>
> I'm looking to setup a couple of Linux based DHCP servers, but I'm
> trying to keep power usage as low as possible (in the realm of 200w-300w
> each if possible, as these will be going in a DC) The servers themselves
> don't have to be high spec processor or memory wise, not particularly
> fussed on processor architecture as long as it can run up Linux.
>
> The problem I'm finding is I can source servers with low power
> requirements, but no redundancy - most servers I have found with
> redundant power are 400w+
>
> Does anyone on the list have any experience or knowledge with any
> companies who sell such a product (without ordering 500+ units)? I'd
> appreciate a helpful point in the right direction.
>
> Ben Cummings
> Clublinks
>
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