Obviously this is a very broad calculation due to the fluctuation of electricity usage, but we used it to come up with a simple approximation of our DC’s power usage.
Example:
23,360 kWH / 30 days / 24 hours = 32.44 kW
32.44 kW x 1000 = 32440 Watts
32440 W / 0.9 (pf) = 36040 volt-amps (VA)
36040 VA / 240 V / 1.732 = 86.7 Amps
We recently switched our barracuda system from using two equally weighted MX records to using one MX record that points to two same-named A records. We are hoping that this will help better load balance the Barracuda cluster. I wrote a quick-n-dirty batch script to remove the second barracuda MX record from our DNS zones:
for /f %%h in (domains.txt) do dnscmd /RecordDelete %%h @ MX 10 servername.net /f
This script takes the input file domains.txt and processes each domain contained in the text file. The format is one domain per line…