[Info-vax] Office Friendly Kit for rx2620

[Keith Parris]

On 8/16/2011 11:14 AM, MG wrote:
> Doesn't your office have a machine room (with KVM switches, perhaps),
> where you could have placed it? Not that you didn't find a good
> solution down the road, but still.

When I first got the rx2620, it was new technology and I wanted to get 
acquainted with it and hated to stash it away in the computer room.

Now that I'm familiar with it, and after a recent office move put us 
into smaller cubicles, the rx2620 (and its friend the DS10) are now 
basking in cool and humidity-controlled air in the datacenter, and I can 
use the MP to boot and reboot the rx2620 remotely over the network. For 
the DS10, we plan to connect a KVM and also connect the serial port to a 
terminal server for remote access.

> How is it that one can't use two power supplies: no adequate cabling,
> are there different power requirements or are these fans larger, thus
> requiring to (perhaps partially) occupy the area where one power supply
> would be inserted?

My guess is the 2nd power supply generates more heat, which takes more 
airflow, which makes more noise.

> Either way, it's good to hear that one can simply install it oneself
> (as an end-user). Do you perhaps have pictures of this kit, or of
> your rx2620 with the kit in place?

Sorry, I have no pictures. Doesn't look any different from the outside.

> How does the "Office Friendly" rx2620 compare to
> a unmodified rx2600, for instance?

Sorry. I don't have an rx2600 to compare it with.