PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!
Few days ago I've purchased a certified refurbished Dell poweredge R710 from amazon with following specs :
Processors: 2 x 2.80Ghz X5660 Hex Core
Memory: 16 x 8GB PC3-10600R
Hard Drives: 6 x 2TB x 7.2K SATA 3.5"
Drive Bays: 6 hotswap 3.5"
Power Supplies: 2 x DELL 870W
RAID Controller: PERC H700
Network Interface: x Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet
Video Card: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000
Optical Drive: DVD-ROM Included
Remote Access Controller: iDRAC Enterprise
I've purchased this server for virtualization purposes (to install Vmware ESXi) in a home lab, however i stupidly forgotten to take in consideration the very basic electricity bill factor, the server runs at 1740 Watt (2PSU= 2*870Watt = 1740 Watt) in my country we are charged at a 0.8$/KWh rate (What a government haa :/ !) and hence we are speaking about 1036$ monthly bill for a 24*7 operation (1295 KWh * 0.8), if i manage to run it on a single PSU and do best effort keeping it idle (powering on VMs only when needed) we are speaking about 297$ (500 Watt per hour and that would 372KWh * 0.8) which is way more what one can afford !
anyone knows if this server can be optimized to operate on 200Watt Smiley Happy i think this is absolutely impossible but thought giving it a try.
Few days ago I've purchased a certified refurbished Dell poweredge R710 from amazon with following specs :
Processors: 2 x 2.80Ghz X5660 Hex Core
Memory: 16 x 8GB PC3-10600R
Hard Drives: 6 x 2TB x 7.2K SATA 3.5"
Drive Bays: 6 hotswap 3.5"
Power Supplies: 2 x DELL 870W
RAID Controller: PERC H700
Network Interface: x Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet
Video Card: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000
Optical Drive: DVD-ROM Included
Remote Access Controller: iDRAC Enterprise
I've purchased this server for virtualization purposes (to install Vmware ESXi) in a home lab, however i stupidly forgotten to take in consideration the very basic electricity bill factor, the server runs at 1740 Watt (2PSU= 2*870Watt = 1740 Watt) in my country we are charged at a 0.8$/KWh rate (What a government haa :/ !) and hence we are speaking about 1036$ monthly bill for a 24*7 operation (1295 KWh * 0.8), if i manage to run it on a single PSU and do best effort keeping it idle (powering on VMs only when needed) we are speaking about 297$ (500 Watt per hour and that would 372KWh * 0.8) which is way more what one can afford !
anyone knows if this server can be optimized to operate on 200Watt Smiley Happy i think this is absolutely impossible but thought giving it a try.