Busy weekend!
As CIX ramps up, we are now adding more than one customer per week. For example, we spent this weekend migrating 10 x 1U HP servers, associated switches and NAS into a half rack space in our data centre. The photographs below show the front and rear of the installation.
Power consumption for this configuration is 2.5kW. These servers are configured to offer fully redundant firewall, virus and spam filtering for up to 100,000 emails per hour.
It is easy to get the front of the servers looking tidy.
Making the rear look neat is a little more difficult.
Early this morning this mail filtering system went live without a hitch.
Over the next two weeks we will be migrating a six rack customer into CIX. This is our largest project to date. The installation involves more than 1,000 cable connections in our infrastructure database and on completion these six racks will consume a total of 26kW of power and will require more than 100MBits/second of connectivity.
Busy times!
May 5th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Where is the KVM cables? or do you only use out of band management cards to control the server from the console?
May 6th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Hi Alan,
This customer is using Integrated Lights Out (iLO). This is HP’s proprietary remore network administration technology. There are two servers clustered at the top of the stack. These control all the other servers. In fact these servers can be managed and powered on and off remotely using iLO. This technology is similar to Dell’s Remote Access Card (DRAC).
The red bundle of patch cables are the iLO cables. Half come from the upper switch and half from the lower switch.