I am considering revamping my home lab built this summer and I am trying to find out how much power will I save if I upgrade my servers with E5 series cpu from x5600.
Today I am paying about $300 for electricity every month, and I want to see if I can justify the upgrade from lower monthly electrical bill.
My systems are connected to a dedicated 40AMP 220V outlet that I purposely get just for the lab, and My old ups and PDU does not have any power meter,
My compute node is running on C6100 (only 2 are active) each configured with dual x5650 with 96GB ram (16 x6).
I am running 2 storage unit on 2 separate supermicro 836 chassis, both are running dual L5520 with 48gb ram. One of them running 16 x 450Gb 15K sas drive and the other running 16x 2TB hitachi. (IPMI shows on average power draw for both of these chassis are about 600W combined). I also have plenty of networking hardware, but I am not going to touch that.
My plan is to convert my (2) 836 chassis with dual E5 motherboard, and configure hyperconverged setup for storage. I am curious if anyone here ever measure their dual E5-2620 system for average power draw from the wall ? I want to see roughly how much much power saving will I gain from going with the new setup.
Today I am paying about $300 for electricity every month, and I want to see if I can justify the upgrade from lower monthly electrical bill.
My systems are connected to a dedicated 40AMP 220V outlet that I purposely get just for the lab, and My old ups and PDU does not have any power meter,
My compute node is running on C6100 (only 2 are active) each configured with dual x5650 with 96GB ram (16 x6).
I am running 2 storage unit on 2 separate supermicro 836 chassis, both are running dual L5520 with 48gb ram. One of them running 16 x 450Gb 15K sas drive and the other running 16x 2TB hitachi. (IPMI shows on average power draw for both of these chassis are about 600W combined). I also have plenty of networking hardware, but I am not going to touch that.
My plan is to convert my (2) 836 chassis with dual E5 motherboard, and configure hyperconverged setup for storage. I am curious if anyone here ever measure their dual E5-2620 system for average power draw from the wall ? I want to see roughly how much much power saving will I gain from going with the new setup.