So how would you approach this from a lateral move w/ focus on consolidation and power savings?

[safado]

I've slowly found over the past couple of years my electric bill climbing substantially from peaks during the summer of $350 to this year a eye popping $585 (with no rate increases). The biggest additions have been during that time a 6610 and a 6650 that are located in a garage and run high fans much of the summer. I'm looking to consolidate a 2-node Xeon cluster and thinking about consolidation of my network stack as well.

Basically my current needs are for:

Ten 1gb ports
Four 1gb POE ports
Two 2.5gb POE+ ports
Eighteen 10gb ports (current before consolidation)

It seems finding POE+, 2.5gb and enough 10gb ports in a single unit is a challenge if not impossible.

Wondering what others have done out there that have taken a more power conservative approach to their home labs and did you move beyond the 6610/6650 that are so wildly popular here? Thanks for any advice!

 

[hmw]

Do you have a PDU so that you can measure the power draw for each component ? For example I have a ICX7650-48ZP and a hyperconverged AMD ESXi host for all my VMs. The switch draws 140W and the server is 120W idle. When I had a couple of UNIFI XG24 and netgear MS510’s - power draw was 50 to 60W lower. Using Intel, the power draw was easily 70W idle

would I return to ubiquiti ‘L3’ shite? no effing way

just use the 6610 with 1 PSU and if you don’t need the POE, remove the POE board so you can then run the lower wattage PSUs. Run a more efficient POE switch for the few devices that do require POE

 

[safado]

Do you have a PDU so that you can measure the power draw for each component ? For example I have a ICX7650-48ZP and a hyperconverged AMD ESXi host for all my VMs. The switch draws 140W and the server is 120W idle. When I had a couple of UNIFI XG24 and netgear MS510’s - power draw was 50 to 60W lower. Using Intel, the power draw was easily 70W idle

would I return to ubiquiti ‘L3’ shite? no effing way

just use the 6610 with 1 PSU and if you don’t need the POE, remove the POE board so you can then run the lower wattage PSUs. Run a more efficient POE switch for the few devices that do require POE

No PDU but need to take the downtime and get some measurements to validate the culprit.
I’ve considered the UFI route as I use the AP’s but am hesitant to go fully that direction.
I’ve thought about a smaller separate POE switch. Appreciate that insight!