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Construction workers filled my SAN with concrete and mineral dust
Update: EMC has dropped our warranty and support, so this is going to be an insurance case. Dell says's that we can get a professional cleaning agency to refurbish the servers and keep our warranty. ...
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How dangerous is a wet server room floor
We have a couple of tower servers in a small server room. The carpet is wet as a result of the cooler and no-one else really seems concerned about this but I'm not too happy. I'm only a lowly ...
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How to extinguish a small fire in a server rack to minimize damage to surrounding equipment?
Suppose I have a rack with several servers and other stuff. One of servers overheats severely and either starts smoking or catches fire while there's a serviceman nearby.
If anything similar happens ...
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Engineers are using explosives to remove hard rock outside our office building. What countermeasures should we take?
Our building is located approx. 100 meters from the explosive charges. They happen several times per day, and really shake the entire building a lot. This is going to go on for many days and the ...
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Ionization option on our A/C turned on or off in a server room?
Our server room is a converted closet, and we have a pair of wall-mounted air conditioning units to cool the room. These are both pointed towards the front of the server racks, and there are a couple ...
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routing calls from landline to end user cell phones
I have to setup a server to route telephone calls coming to a particular landline no to cell phone phones depending upon the availability of user.
I want to know what technology call centres or ...
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Blade server in a nutshell?
Can anyone give a real description of a blade server and what it's advantages are besides space? Are there any disadvantages? And also, do you think smaller companies (think around maybe 4-5 actual ...
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How to build and run a machine room?
The last guy quit (I think a lot of adventures begin this way?) and I've been given the job to build a new machine room. I am coordinating with 2 engineers, campus ITS, campus Facilities Management, ...
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server room specification standards
Is anyone aware of any standards or guidelines for server rooms or data centers (of any scale)? I am in the process of making suggestions for a design and although some things come out of experience ...
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Walk-In Cooler Server Room?
Thanks Everyone!
I'm pushing the ROI angle now trying to make them see good common sense. Thanks for your input!
After searching a little bit, I wasn't able to find any specific information on this, ...
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Why datacenter water cooling is not widespread?
From what I read and hear about datacenters, there are not too many server rooms which use water cooling, and none of the largerst datacenters use water cooling (correct me if I'm wrong). Also, it's ...
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data room access in a hospital
I am the librarian for a large hospital - Hoping to tap into the collective wisdom of the group for a request that came to our library from our IS department
Can anyone provide a resource or ...
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Which is better for heat: 120v or 220v?
I've got the following gear in a small 120sqft room. While AC is supplied it's a home/office and in the summer both the central air at full go and a standup indoor portable AC on full barely keep it ...
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Terminate short CAT5 uplinks?
My employer is moving to a new building and i'm in charge of creating/moving the IT infrastructure. There are 3 floors with a patch closet on each floor, then CAT5 uplinks down to the server room on ...
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Advice for reorganization of machine room?
I am a n00b sysadmin and have been asked to completely reorganize an existing machine room with some 30-40 servers. Currently, the place is a pigsty, and wires are jumbled everywhere, so there is good ...
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Moving server room to another part of the building
This question is a bit different than the typical we are moving our server room to an off site location or we are moving the whole office to a new building.
Management wants to add some more office ...
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Implement a rule to access physically the server room
We have a server room and right now it's like in wild west: the strongest one can get in and do whatever he wants.
I would like to prepare a list of rules to follow to monitor the access and ...
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Is there a good way to build a DIY LCD KVM?
I've wondered for some time whether it would be possible to build an LCD KVM. My server room has two KVM switches with CRTs, and I really don't want to shell out $1000+ on one of the nice 1U rackmount ...
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Rear mount or front mount switches
Where I work all the switches in a rack are mounted in the rear of the rack, but this presents a problem with hot isle cold isle cooling. The alternative is to mount the switches in the front of the ...
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Rackmount cable length calculations & best practices
I'm redoing the cable management for a small company with a modest server room. It's my first time trying to organize an absolute mess that their former IT-guy left.
A huge problem that I'm finding ...
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Biometric scanner that scans the blood veins pattern in the palm
Is there some kind of a biometric scanner that can scan the pattern of blood veins in our palm?
Related questions:
Reputable Biometric Fingerprint Scanner & Access/Attendance Solutions?
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Storage Chassis Rack Location
There are so many configurations of racks, it's not even funny. Where do you guys keep your storage located?
I think the problem I'm having is that they're currently set too high in the rack and ...
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APC InRow Cooling for a small server room
We recently added some hardware to our server room, and our 12000 BTU Mitsubishi Mr. Slim isn't cutting it (was undersized to begin with). Our humidity is also too low (~30%).
To meet our needs, ...
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My server room has flooded
We recently went through a hurricane and our server room became flooded. Hooray for insurance. Anyway, I need to save as much data off one of the hard drives as possible. Yes, it was submerged for ...
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Server Room Temperature Control - Does anyone have a similar setup?
Our Server room is located in the middle of our building and has no access to a window or outside ventilation. I had a quote done by a local heating/air conditioning company to install a room specific ...
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Groupings for Network Cable Colors
I noticed a thread Network cable color conventions?
that talked about what types of colors to use for cabling in server rooms and closets. I thought that if there was a general consensus as to the ...
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Computer controlled winch
It was a long time coming but I've just had AC installed in my server room. I've also purchased a MiniGoose II from ITWatchDogs which I can't say enough about. So I'm covered by cooling, and I'll be ...
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How is fire spread in server rooms and datacenters?
Every now and then I read that a severe fire has happened in some datacenter, lots of equipment has been damaged and customers have gone offline. Now I wonder what is there to support and spread fire?
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What's the standard for server closet HVAC?
My organization is in the process of looking for new space in Manhattan. We have 25 employees and are looking at offices that are around 7,000 sq. ft. I don't anticipate us ever needing more than a ...
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question on server rooms?
okay..im really sorry for this noob question..but..in a server room..do all the servers function as one server? is it like a bunch of computers doing the same think (like a cluster supercomputer) and ...
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Cooling for a small server room
I have a server room about 12 feet square with an unfinished ceiling (exposed ducts and wiring). It houses a few servers (about ten, 1U and 2U) and some networking gear (four 1U switches, three ...
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Server Room Protocols/Server Room Management
I'm new to this site but have found the articles and feedback very useful. We have a Server Room which our Organisation owns and controls, yet there are several thirs party companies that have open ...
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Portable server room air-con options
We are looking for portable industrial air conditioners for our server room which whould blow hot air to the ceiling cavity, split-system is not an option.
Something exactly like this would be ideal, ...
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Data Center Design and Preferences
When either selecting a data center as a co-location facility or designing a new one from scratch, what would your ideal specification be?
Fundamentally, diversified power sources, multiple ISPs, ...
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Cabling: What to keep in stock?
I have worked a few different places, each one with a different solution, so I would like to hear your suggestions and ideas.
I am looking at a situation with multiple server-rooms. We have a mixture ...
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Should I consider running servers under a UPS that can not fulfill the estimated VA?
I currently have a 2200 VA UPS unit (APC Smart-UPS 2200XL) in my rack and may need a 3000 VA unit to be able to load additional servers. Under my assessment, based upon whitepapers for each server, ...
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Website Reference about Server Placement
I have to do a student research project about "Server Placement in a Server Room". The paper should contain something like "place the racks about 3 meters away from any wall", "mind the maximum ...
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Rack layout tools
I'm wondering if there's any tools (preferably offline) that would allow me to layout all of the new equipment that will be going into several standard racks. Currently I'm using Excel to map out all ...
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Heat shrink cat5 cable labels
I'm looking for some feedback from someone who has used heat-shrink labels for cable management/identification in a server room environment.
Specifically, I'm looking at the Brady IDXPERT printer ...
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Solution for TC / server closet in TIGHT area?
A non-profit volunteer organization that I do some admin work for is in the process of planning a major renovation to their building, which is more or less a converted house (no basement, uninsulated ...
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Downsizing From a Cage to Racks
When moving from a cage to racks at a datacenter, what is some equipment I might need. I have already thought about pull-out monitor/keyboard and IP KVMs. What else might I need? Also, how do you ...
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What network equipment do I need for a small quarter-bay server farm?
I've just bought four servers, rented a quarter of server bay, bought some Internet connectivity, bought a specialized line to a private network I'm using, and now I need to buy a router (or two?) to ...
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Server room door security
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, ...
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Best labeler for the server room?
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 ...
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Data center equipment vendors? [closed]
I'm wondering where people purchase their data center / server room components from. In particular, I'm looking to install an Emergency Power Off switch in our server room and have been looking for a ...
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Server Room Physical Size and Layout
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 ...
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Advice on moving a machine room to a new location?
Our company is moving to new offices in a couple of months, and I am responsible for looking after the move of the development servers in the company. most of the dev equipment is in 5, 42U cabinets + ...
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Where to locate power outlets on server rack?
I'm building a new server room, and have to decide where I'll be locating the power outlets (120V 30AMP locking connectors) that my UPSs will be powered from. In the past I've put the outlets on the ...
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Strange bipping sound in Server room! [closed]
I have since yesterday a weird "bip" every minute in the server room. It comes from the unit, where 2 servers, one switch and a router are installed.
Can anyone help me with this? I'm working in an ...
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How do I calculate cooling cost per server?
I'm attempting to figure out the power/cooling draw for some old servers that I'd virtualized.
Starting with info in this question, I've taken the 880W the old boxes appeared to be drawing (according ...
