I’m looking at my new server’s IDRAC console and it’s idling at 260 watts. That seems high to me. I’m new to this so some help would be appreciated. It only has ESXI 7 installed, no virtual guests yet. So nothing really requiring processor power. Thank you!

2x E5-2650 v3

32GB Ram

12x 4TB SAS drives

2 extra NICs

  • Electric_giraffe8@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’ve just bought a R730XD with 12x6TB 3,5 SAS in the front, 4x4TB 3,5 SATA inside, 2x300GB 2,5 SAS in the back and 3 controller cards. It was 300W+ on idle running fresh proxmox, no VMs. Took the cards out because i don’t plan to use them yet and were running hot, and the consuption dropped to 255W. Planning to take some HDDs out to have some spares after planning the TrueNAS/VMs i want to use. A little sad about it because the 12 drive bays in the front packed full with hdds looks really nice.