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What is the ideal humidity level (or range) for a room dedicated to servers?
Started by Rocket Squirrel on
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by 5 people.
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This is done by determining the natural humidity of the room when it's not under control, and averaging it out.
You may also want to account for human comfort if the server room is also.
And some do both.
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I know this is a site for professionals, but please bear with me.
I have seen server rooms, and they have racks and racks of servers, routers, and switches. I want to know, what is the purpose of all these? Where does the data go once it enters the server...
Started by Robert on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
A co-location facility's server room would likely consist of servers from many different companies.....
Firends !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_farm
It really depends on what server room you're looking at.
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I've often heard of people starting up server rooms from spare computers on their own. How would one do this? Is it possible to take a normal router and a few computers and create a server? If so, how?
Started by Robert on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
In the past, I just used come up with is a goal for having... .
Recycle an old computer into a server as follows:
For your "server room", set up networkingYou don't really need a dedicated room to setup a sever in your house/apt.
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I wanted to know if anybody had any recommendations as to how to keep the server room secure from employees. There is a lock on the door, however, anybody with a building master (maintenance, owners, custodians, etc) can open it. It would be nice if it...
Started by Brett G on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
They are relatively-button lock on one of our server....
I would also install a camera inside the server room.
I know of a site where the server room is secured All good answers.
Secured with a pin for trusted employees.
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I feel like this is a question I've seen on here before, but some searching didn't do me any good. This looks similar, but I'm looking for stuff I leave there, not what's in my go-bag.
What would you say is indispensable equipment in your server room?...
Started by Bill Weiss on
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by 17 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Colo's and Server rooms are two cordless....
To add a bit to my above statement.
Everything else should be stored nearby, but removed from the server room when not needed.
Be stored in the server room is servers.
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I’ve read the “perfect server room” answers and a few other similar questions' answers, but I didn’t see any really good answers on how much physical space is the right amount.
Do you keep your racks enclosed or leave them open without fillers, etc?
For...
Started by Dave on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
The entire server "room" (four racks server rooms big and small (although with an emphasis on big) and a lot of the issues involved, I've seen some dumb....
To the outside using enclosed racks with APC-brand fan-back enclosures .
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Right now, I've got a Brother P-touch labeler that prints four or five sizes of text on one long label. It has features such as italics and bold. It's...non-ideal.
What do you use in your server room? I have heard of labelers that will print vertically...
Started by Matt Simmons on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
[Room / Data Center] - [Row Number] - [Rack Number] - [U-Number.
Line is the destination (other end).
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I have an old server in a remote location. It has its own power feed which is subject to failure twice a month. The problem with this failure is that it does not simply drop and recover hours later. It drops, recovers for 5 min, drops again, recovers ...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
A unit that would power....
Just connect a network cable, configure IP address (can be done from the host OS unit .
Is this server not on a UPS?
This server has iLO management port that can be used, among other to power up the server.
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I have a 2Tb+ SAP database with 8 datafiles, the first files have grown to fill the available disk space on our HP EVA5000, and the growth is now on the new files. We upgraded SQL from SQL server 2000 to 2005 and Checkdb works differently, and now fails...
Started by Geoff Wright on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
If it runs.
Ooh I just read this last night in SQL Server 2008 Internals book (thanks Paul Randal).
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What reasons would you give for locating data centre in the basement instead of a upper floors?
Started by Chris Huang-Leaver on
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by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
If I had my choice the server room would be on the ground floor, simply because I don't like having to move it's negligible....
It should also not need human presence.
To my way of thinking the server room needs to be utilitarian.
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