[Info-vax] Decuserve.org - Anyone know why it's down?

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In article <54bab4c3$0$15925$e4fe514c at dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>, MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
>Michael Moroney schreef op 17-jan-2015 om 15:57:
>> VSI has been having problems both with the DNS and the connection
>> itself. Eisner was up and reachable yesterday, now it's not, even
>> if you connect directly to the IP address.
>
>Not sure if this is the case, but...  Maybe the aging DS20 is too
>power-hungry to keep powered on continuously?  With a power rating
>of 675 Watt max. per PSU (optionally redundant), plus with the disks
>in the BA shelf, it sounds like it could be fairly taxing over longer
>periods of time...  (Theoretically speaking, at its maximum potential,
>it could amount to as much as around 16.2 kWh/day!!)  Especially
>considering the fact that VSI is probably having quite a difficult
>time, with cleaning up the mess of OpenVMS Engineering and bringing
>about all the changes and additions to VMS.
>
>Maybe a DS15 (with a 400-Watt max. rating) with (e.g.) one or two
>Ultra160 SCSI<=>S-ATA bridged 2-Tbyte disks to replace the current
>setup would be a good idea?  (Instead of outright emulating on even
>more power-efficient µITX PC hardware, for instance, so it would
>still be the 'real thing'.)  A KZPEA and/or SA5300/A plus one or two
>ACARD cards would do the trick, I'd think.  Or maybe an IPF, like
>the zx2000?  Like that you can simply get a VMS-supported PCI-X SAS
>controller (e.g. LSISAS1064/1068-based HBA) and just split from SAS
>to S-ATA and then you won't need the far more costly SCSI<=>S-ATA
>adapters and can just directly attach one or more inexpensive 3½"
>S-ATA disks.
>
>Might cost a bit at first (especially the DS15 route), but in the
>long run it's probably going to save money on the power bill.  Or
>would there be issues with, say, running software like DEC Notes
>under VMS I64?

FWIW, kWhr rates are fairly low here in the states.


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