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When I was working in our server room, I noticed that it was very cold.
I know that the server room has to be cold to offset the heat of the servers, but perhaps it is TOO cold.
What is an appropriate temperature to keep our server room at?
Started by ffffff on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
This guide says that:
General: It is important to note there ... .
Recommendations on server room temperature vary greatly.
We have one air conditioning unit that services that room).
My server room is set to 69 degrees.
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What is the ideal humidity level (or range) for a room dedicated to servers?
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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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Are everyone else's server rooms noisy?
Do you have continuous sound metering, do you put meters in from time to time, or do you just put up with it?
Does anyone wear ear protectors in a server room?
Started by Richard Gadsden on
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Then again, our time in the server room is often limited to physical playing so that I don't go totally mad when working in a server room or datacenter for any length of time something changes, and....
Who wears ear protectors.
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What is the state of the art in fire suppression for server rooms? What are the top priorities in choosing a good system?
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
If your server room cannot and ask about their services ....
Depending on the size of your server room, get another to stick, halon has been outdated over environmental and health concerns.
It on the way in, or on the way out .
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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...
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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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What do I have to consider when I'm planning a new server room for a small company (30 PCs, 5 servers, a couple of switches, routers, UPS...)?
What are the most important aspects in order to protect the hardware? What things do not belong in a server ...
Started by splattne on
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A dedicated thermostat....
Usually, the server room.
Experience, the ideal server room will have the following:
Large enough to house your cabinet or rack depot has locks that use touch pads so you can assign codes to unlock the door.
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Regarding keeping a server room cool: on the low end, there's box fans. On the high end, there are architectural changes to the building.
What are some practical ways to keep the room cool without resorting to either of these extremes?
Started by Dinah on
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Of course there was ....
Turned out that opening.
server room was on the first floor in a very well ventilated corner of a building, and they kept complaining about the server room getting too hot despite the air-conditioning.
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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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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 have a small server room with its own AC unit. Recently, the AC died, and the temperature increased from 70 F to > 90 F. We rarely go in this room, so I was lucky that someone happened to notice that the fans were running a lot louder than normal...
Started by Jon B on
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The outdoor probe runs through a small channel in the wall to the neighboring server room a point to visit the server....
We use in my office.
Of the PLC have it go to a light or alarm bell outside the server room to alert you.
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I have worked at a few hosting companies and seen two schools of thought on this
Do not allow customers into the server room. The argument is basically it raises security ( this news story is normally provided as a reason that security is only good if...
Started by Robert MacLean on
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If you want to use the server anyone into the....
As for staff, stict controls should be enforced.
However in the server room unattended.
In separate cages etc then i see no reason not to let people in to the server room.
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