Varrow Blogs

Power supplies aren’t the most exciting thing to talk about…but have you ever arrived to install new gear and found that the plug in your hand didn’t match the outlet on the wall? Then it gets real exciting…. The great thing about Cisco is they have a module and a cable to make anything talk [...]

Interesting little article came out yesterday about something I’ve been wondering for a while but haven’t had the resources to really test.  How cold do you really need to keep that data center?  I spend a good bit of time in different data centers and some are like a meat locker.  I always question the [...]

Last week I wrote a bit about vSphere’s Data Recovery feature.  There are a lot of good things to talk about in vSphere so this week I thought I’d cover Dynamic Power Management, or DPM.  Many users of VI3 are probably familiar with DPM.  It was available, but not fully supported since it was marked [...]

This isn’t going to be a deeply technical post, but it’s something I run in to a lot.  Most IT organizations don’t know what it costs them to operate their data centers.  It’s really not their fault.  Usually they never see the power bill for the facility.  The only time they put much thought in [...]