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if you look on the APC website they used to have a good calculator for this very thing.
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if you look on the APC website they used to have a good calculator for this very thing.

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Dear datacenter expertist,<br />
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Right now we are doing capacity planning of our datacenter for new hardware to move in, any measurement we can do for the power consumption planning ?<br />
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i.e., how to measure how many 2U servers a UPS can support?
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Dear datacenter expertist,

Right now we are doing capacity planning of our datacenter for new hardware to move in, any measurement we can do for the power consumption planning ?

i.e., how to measure how many 2U servers a UPS can support?

power capacity planning

Servers are computing devices that are similar to desktop computers in that they have the same basic components, but are significantly different in size, configuration and purpose. Servers are usually accessed over a network, and many run unattended, without a computer monitor, input device, audio hardware or USB interfaces. Many servers do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), and are configured and managed remotely. Servers typically include hardware redundancy such as dual power supplies, RAID disk systems, and ECC memory, along with extensive pre-boot memory testing and verification. Critical components might be hot swappable, and to guard against overheating, servers might have more powerful fans or use water cooling.

Server Hardware

Components are those devices that are internal to a computer -- the PC boards, the central processor (CPU), the memory (RAM), disk and video controllers and so on.