From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 27 13:56:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from elwood.akitanet.co.uk (elwood.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDFD37BBEA for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:56:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wigstah@akitanet.co.uk) Received: from elwood.akitanet.co.uk (elwood.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.149]) by elwood.akitanet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA48000; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:56:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:56:13 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Robinson To: "H. Paul Hammann" Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote controlled power strips In-Reply-To: <14559.41613.385850.24321@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, H. Paul Hammann wrote: > It would be ideal to have power strips that have the remote > manipulation feature but also have sockets spaced so that there was > one per rack unit (1.75 inches IIRC). If anyone knows of dense power > strips like this I would be most grateful for any information. If > people reply directly to me I will summarize to the list. Thanks in > advance. Well, 2 solutions spring to mind: 1. Instead of power strips, stick rack-mount UPS kit in there that is controllable remotely, that will already by definition have the sockets arranged in a dense manner. Unfortunately, this means that you waste rackspace. 2. Use multiple strips on opposite sides of the case. First rack goes to left, second to right, third to left, fourth to right etc. If you're strips come from different supplies and your servers are clustered, you even get a reasonable amount of redundancy in a dense environment. Well, that's just a thought, but I've never had to do high-density rack-mounting, so what would I know? :-) -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message