[132974] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Fri Dec 3 02:23:28 2010
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
To: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=f18_xL5HeEqRGHo0a0ErzBmCJweMYzuAX66W7@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:23:21 -0600
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:58 -0500, Jay Nakamura wrote:
> I really want to move all newly installed internal and customer racks
> over to all 208v power instead of 120v. As far as I can remember, I
> can't remember any server/switch/router or any other equipment that
> didn't run on 208v AC. (Other than you may need a different cable)
> Anyone have any experience where some oddball equipment that couldn't
> do 208v and regret going 208v? We won't have any TDM or SONET
> equipment, all Ethernet switches, routers and servers. I have control
> over internal equipment but sometimes customers surprises you.
>
In one colo I helped manage, we had some crappy netgear switches which
couldn't handle 208v. Provided you have proper equipment, you should be
fine though. This was a non-profit though, so we were trying to get by
with whatever was the most cost-efficient option.
William
