[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=24461633#p24461633:25j1j1p7 said:dredphul[/url]":25j1j1p7]that the Cisco UCS C240 M3S is advertised as a 2U product, but actually requires 3U of space as all the air vents are on top of the unit.
Found buried in the install guide:
Do not block the air vents on the top of the server's cover. Do not stack another server directly on top of the C240 server. Doing so blocks the proper airflow, which could result in overheating, higher fan speeds, and higher power consumption.
Glad this was discovered before the units were racked.
How can Dell manage to do it with the R720XD and not have those issues?
I'm also specifying those in a tender response right now, this will put a dent in my design. High level right now until we move to 2nd round, but still.
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also, I have to work with idiotic staff. One of the "seniors" is so fucking lazy, he's going to test king his way through the VCP as opposed to knowing the material. We had a huge latency issue with our VNX today, write latency in the order of 3s but read latency still sitting on 2ms. To me, that screams there's a configuration issue or some sort. His response "I'll log it with EMC later". I go poking around, notice a very very very very very slow SDRS move operation and cancel it, suddenly everything is fine.
Maybe learn storage you fucking dimwit. And Exchange. And Active Directory. And VMware.
When I was managing this infrastructure, we were capacity managed/planned - right now, there's no idea of wtf is going on. We're at >90% memory usage on all the hosts right now, never mind that they havent had 5.0U1 applied.