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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:12:18 -0400
From:      George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>
To:        "Paul Holes" <paul@sentex.ca>
Cc:        netperf-users@freebsd.org, netperf-admin@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I'd like to make some changes to the Sentex Lab...
Message-ID:  <C621F277-EA90-46FB-A1B5-9FFAE25084F4@freebsd.org>
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On Sep 24, 2010, at 16:04 , Paul Holes wrote:

> ?George,
> yes the elephant as a 1U. Orangutan is 2U.
>=20
> Are those new systems (future bears)  IPMI capable ?
>=20

There is an IPMI 2.0 slot but we'd have to buy the actual card for it.  =
I believe we could get
a price from iX on that.  I'll put that on my list.

> What is hurting us, on the rack, are our power switches as we don't =
have Big capacity UPSes.
> What we have here are upses with around 900 W load capacity which is =
not enough to support 8 devices on boot up or when they are under =
extreme load.

OK, do you have any suggestions as to what we could put in there that =
would be beefier?
Without breaking the bank of course.
In general is there power in the rack that should be able to run that =
many machines?

Best,
George




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