Chris Kevlahan here at Sun has done extensive power measurements of the SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 servers, and put together a spreadsheet to estimate power usage based on machine configuration. I turned that into Javascript so I could embed it in this blog
Notes:
The purpose of this tool is:
- Estimate and calculate the power consumption of a planned configuration.
- Estimate and calculate the cooling requirements of a planned configuration.
| Due to proprietary agreements with Fujitsu, the power calculator has been removed from this blog |
- Total number of memory boards must be 2 or more.
- Total number of memory boards must not exceed 4 (M4000) or 8 (M5000).
- Power usage for PCI/PCI-Express cards is estimated using 14 Watts average; however, 25 Watts is the maximum.