[68999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Personal Co-location Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Sat Mar 20 19:41:20 2004
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:40:42 -0500
From: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <405CD6D2.5090401@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 2004-03-20-18:42:10, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
> If someone is doing this, especially wrt to 1U servers, perhaps
> someone could provide a pointer to a reboot solution that would
> allow a single reboot device to control 42+ 1Us in a single
> rack. From my occasional interest in this area, I've seen lots of
> reboot solutions. Most of them take as many as 4-10 U to reboot 40
> machines, which sort of obviates the need to reboot 40 machines in a
> single rack in the first place. Unless you use 10ft racks, I guess.
You could do this with a combination of two vertically mounted BayTech
RPC27[1] units per rack, and one Cisco 3640 w/ 3 * NM-32A and 1 *
NM-1E2W's (and the appropriate octal -> RJ45 serial cables and DCE
headshells) split between two racks. This would provide you with
effectively 44 serial console ports (not counting the 2 per rack
burned on the BayTech units) and 42 remotely controllable outlets at a
space penalty of only 1U per rack. I'm doing something similar right
now...
-a
[1] <http://www.baytechdcd.com/cgi-private/prodlist?show=RPC27>
