From the cabinets I saw, it was definitely 2U vertical space. It was one of those things that surprised me a little - I would have assumed they'd use blade servers, or at least 1U boxes just to get the rack density. So when I had the opportunity to "sneak a peek", I tried to notice as much as I could, without poking and prodding. Unfortunately, there wasn't much to notice, other than what I mentioned previously. That, and they were all pre-installed in the cabinets before shipping out to the colo. (There were 30 or 40 cabinets in the shipping/receiving area of the colo).
In your standard 42U cabinet, you're talking a half-U per server. Umm.. not happening. Let's just say I happen to know they use 2U servers, for a total of 21 per cabinet. Custom jobs - just the "floor pan" (i.e. no sides, or top for the case), system board, power supply, and I think a single (or possibly dual) hard drive (I didn't want to be too nosy staring into someone else's colo space). Oh, and network. And rumor has it, they're putting in close to 200 cabinets in just this location alone.
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From the cabinets I saw, it was definitely 2U vertical space. It was one of those things that surprised me a little - I would have assumed they'd use blade servers, or at least 1U boxes just to get the rack density. So when I had the opportunity to "sneak a peek", I tried to notice as much as I could, without poking and prodding. Unfortunately, there wasn't much to notice, other than what I mentioned previously. That, and they were all pre-installed in the cabinets before shipping out to the colo. (There were 30 or 40 cabinets in the shipping/receiving area of the colo).
In your standard 42U cabinet, you're talking a half-U per server. Umm.. not happening. Let's just say I happen to know they use 2U servers, for a total of 21 per cabinet. Custom jobs - just the "floor pan" (i.e. no sides, or top for the case), system board, power supply, and I think a single (or possibly dual) hard drive (I didn't want to be too nosy staring into someone else's colo space). Oh, and network. And rumor has it, they're putting in close to 200 cabinets in just this location alone.