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Rack server grounding: connecting the yellow-green earth wire via a 3-pin plug
I have a question regarding the connection of the yellow-green earth wire of a server rack.
The current setup is as follows:
All metallic devices in the rack are connected to each other via a yellow-...
Score of 3
2 answers
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How to delay startup after power restored until network switches are operational? (Red Hat)
Recently, since upgrading to use Red Hat IDM (FreeIPA) instead of NIS, we had to shut everything down for a scheduled day-long power interruption to our site. Starting up again, there was a problem. ...
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Windows Server 2016 shuts down unexpectedly
I have windows server 2016 and in the past few days the server is shutting down it's self. I have manual power up the server and then it shuts down again ramdomly. I do have UPS which protects this ...
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Linux soft RAID5 does not come up after multiple power failures on some discs, what to do?
I have a backup of all important data. At the end a restore is needed. But I want to first try something before I would go this way and it is a good situation to learn something about all the stuff I ...
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Hp proliant Dl380p gen 8 power issue
Hi my hp proliant dl380p gen 8 sometimes lunches into the hp loading screen then shuts off other times it doesn't get to loading screen and just try's to start up you can hear it and see it send power ...
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VMware Virtual Machine Power Consumption
I know there is a way to view the power consumption in Watts for a specific VM, but is there a way to view or output the total power consumption for a set of VMs over a given period?
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Server crashing every 14 days, no bugcheck
Every 14 days one of our Windows servers crashes. We have been trying to figure out what causes this but to no avail.
Today we noticed a pattern in the shutdowns of the server, happening every 14 days ...
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Is there any Linux mechanism to emergency-flush filesystem buffers on power loss?
A common "gotcha" with computers can happen when power gets cut to the computer without warning. Because the system loses power suddenly, it doesn't have a chance to flush cached filesystem ...
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who is setting my link_power_management_policy?
I am experiencing issues with my sata connection.
Thus, I want to change /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy to max_performance.
For that, I execute on boot a script:
cat /etc/...
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What is considered in the PUE calculation?
Looking into PUE calculation for a small datacenter, I have here some questions :
With standard air-cooled servers, it is simple, get the power draw of the servers (i.e. IT power), get the power draw ...
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Why so much need for density? [closed]
In today's world, we are looking everywhere for power savings. In the datacenter environment, I see more and more focus on the power efficiency, yet, I also see that the servers keep on being made ...
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Dell R815 power button does not turn off
I have powered my R815 on/off using DRAC. That works fine.
But today I had some physical maintenance, and wanted to use the power button. I can turn on the server using the button, but I cannot turn ...
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"hdparm -s 1" on USB disk -> bricked? - USB drive is on power on in standby mode which cannot be reverted with hdparm
I have a disk which was apparently put into PUIS mode with hdparm.
As the disk does not spin up on power on automatically, I think I need to send it directly to the USB device (which is not even ...
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1 answer
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Reducing power usage on windows server
I have a Proliant Microserver Gen8 running windows server 2019 with a Xeon E3 1260L, one SSD for OS, and two 3TB 5400 RPM disks for storage (software raid).
The server acts as a NAS and has a few ...
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2 answers
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Power limit in a 2x1600W server
I have a server with two 1600W power supply units (a Gigabyte GS-R22PHL if that helps).
Should I assume the maximum rated power is 1600W, and that the second unit is for redundancy, or that the ...