[gruez]

>Unless all 32 servers have redundant AC power feeds present, you've traded one single point of failure for another single point of failure.

Is this not standard? I vaguely remember that rack severs typically have two PSUs for this reason.

[glitchcrab]

It's highly dependent on the individual server model and quite often how you spec it too. Most 1U Dell machines I worked with in the past only had a single slot for a PSU, whereas the beefier 2U (and above) machines generally came with 2 PSUs.

[thfuran]

But 2 PSUs plugged into the same AC supply still have a single point of failure.

[glitchcrab]

Which is why you have two separate PDUs in the rack which are fed by different power feeds and you connect the server's 2 PSUs to opposing PDUs.

[growse]

This works brilliantly, right up to the point where your A side fails, and every single server suddenly doubles their demand on B.

Better have good capacity management so you don't go over 100% on B when that happens! (I've seen it happen and take a DC out).

[jeffbee]

Rack servers have two PSUs because enterprise buyers are gullible and will buy anything. Generally what happens in case of a single PSU failure is the other PSU also fails or it asserts PROCHOT which means instead of a clean hard down server you have a slow server derping along at 400MHz which is worse in every possible way.

[sidewndr46]

you could have 15 PSUs in a server. It doesn't mean they have redundant power feeds