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Anyone using the Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade system?



On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> BostonUserGroups and the BLU got burnedwhen we both got new Dell
> Poweredge systems.
> My OPINION is that Dell does not have a long history with servers,
> especially in comparison to HP and IBM. I know some people who swear by
> Dell servers, but our Dell was a problem from day 1. We never got more
> than a month uptime.
>
> On 02/25/2010 02:35 PM, Matt Shields wrote:
> > I'm looking at purchasing a couple of the Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade
> > systems but I'm having a tough time getting straight answers from anyone
> at
> > Dell on how to figure out what power I need and I'm hoping that some else
> > might have either the electrical knowledge or know from experience what
> > power I need.
> >
> > All my existing racks are 2 x 20amp/110v drops, we're allowed to use 80%
> of
> > our available power per fire code which equates to 16amps per drop.
>  Based
> > on server specs and knowing what the power supply wattage is it's easy to
> > calculate how many servers I can fit into a rack.  I'm averaging about
> 14-15
> > Dell PowerEdge 1950's per rack (~2amps/server), less if I have higher
> > powered servers in the rack.
> >
> > When talking with the Dell technical rep he told me that each chassis
> > requires 1 x 208v/20amp circuit to be fully redundant with 6 power
> > supplies.  If I read through their site and their whitepaper (page 29 &
> 30)
> > they seem to hint that for full redundancy I need 2 x 208v/60amp circuits
> > per chassis.  Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Main Product Page:
> >
> http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/servers/pedge_m1000e/pd.aspx?refid=pedge_m1000e&s=bsd&cs=04
> > Product Whitepaper:
> >
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-m1000e-white-paper-en.pdf
> >
> >
>
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We've been using almost exclusively since back in 2000 and have gone through
all the generations of the 1x50 and 2x50 model PowerEdge servers and have
been extremely lucky and haven't had any major issues.  The only time we
haven't used Dell is when we've acquired other companies and they were using
something else, but currently we have over 300 PowerEdge servers in our
network.

-matt
http://www.sysadminvalley.com
http://www.beantownhost.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboston






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