Rack Power Usage and Audit at Datacenter

[akblackwel]

Wondering if anyone's having or had any power issues at their datacenter that might be able to offer some advice.

1st, What is your total Watts/Square Foot max that you can use in your rack? With our provider, it's 40 Watts/SF. Is that low, normal, high?

2nd, Does anyone have any suggestions on a cheap power meter that will show Watts, Amps, and Volts? The reason I say cheap is because we have 20 servers and I figure I'll have to plug 3 or 4 up at a time over a week to get all the equipment. I'm trying to perform an audit on all of our servers to see what's pulling what. We have 2 120 Volt and 1 208 Volt circuits. I looked at the home ones, but they certainly do not go up to 208V, so I'm looking for alternatives.

Thanks

Kevin

[KenB]

How many racks do you have? You might consider purchasing a rack PDU with built-in metering for each. APC, BayTech.net, ServerTech and Pulizzi all make them.

Ken

[dcrelocation]

you can do PDU Strip with meters on them or you can get a tools that is a clamp meter that allows you to check for voltage on power cord which will do what you are asking. What is the problem you are having and maybe I can help address that - I design computer rooms and make them more Green as well. Let me know how I can help.