From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 27 14: 6: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.prophetnetworks.net (mail.pns.net [63.71.252.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6328537B9ED for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:06:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bvaughn@pns.net) Received: from shell01.pns.net (bvaughn@shell01.prophetnetworks.net [63.71.252.10]) by mail.prophetnetworks.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA06847; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:07:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bvaughn@pns.net) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:58:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Ben Vaughn To: Paul Robinson Cc: "H. Paul Hammann" , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote controlled power strips In-Reply-To: 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 Try the APC Masterswitch, http://www.apcc.com. These are really cool, and we have a couple here. -biv ---- Ben Vaughn Prophet Network Systems On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Paul Robinson wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message