Immutable Laws of The Server Room

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To get warm? Dude, have you ever been in a real server room? You'll likely freeze your nipples off, bro!

 

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Wow. My first - and last - OS/2 Warp install was 12 years ago, in my first real IT job. Haven't seen it since.

 

The place i work gets really cold so i go sit in the server room and read a book. It only has fans and gets quite warm.

 

If it's warm in your server room... you're not doing it right.

 

LOL, this can't be for real as in any well ventilated server room it should be the opposite. In interpretation meaning very cold and not warm by any means, unless purposely turned down or malfunctioning.

 

LMFAO @ this - last week I had two USB drives shipped from our parent company in the US (long story short, it was faster to copy 1.7Tb of images to them and ship them here rather than do it across the WAN). I set a robocopy job up to copy them from a PC on our workbench across to a server in the colo (no USB 2 card) and it punked about an hour and a half after I left the office. Nothing in the event viewer the next day when I got in - and the PC was turned off, so I put it down to a power blip. Set the job up again before I left that day - and it punked about ten minutes later than the night before. Couldn't for the life of me see what was causing it - then I hit on the idea of checking the CCTV cameras. Sure enough, a f*&$in' cleaner was unplugging it to plug her sodding vaccuum cleaner in!

Eastern European non-English-speaking cleaning staff FTL!

 

I worked at a place that had call recording software running on OS2. Horrid, horrid POS that was.

 

Our server room occasionally gets VERY warm as the various people involved in setting up the necessary for it 5 years ago when we bought the office never communicated directly so the damn things not hooked into the UPS which was specced specifically to be able to handle it. Any time the power goes out the unit goes off and the temperature shoots up so high that the phone system with its ailing fans which would involve business crippling downtime to replace (it was designed by total morons) overheats and shuts down.

The rest of the servers on the other hand continue running as if nothing at all has happened, but only since I jammed an upright office fan at the back of the rack to suck some of the hot air out...

The architect and the company who specced and installed our air con have both since gone bust.

 

Our UPS monitoring software provides monitoring and shutdown control in the event of a power outage, but only if you buy the agent for every server. Every time the subject comes up my boss waves it off and says we can handle it manually. I'm going to keep pushing this one though, particularly bearing in mind the insider information I gained on the current state of the grid near our office.

Also going to keep pushing for a vent to the outside world at the back of the rack so I can pull that damn fan out.

As said our UPS is seriously over specced for our server requirements so we would have a reasonable amount of battery time, but the information just didn't get passed around.

Oh, and just to throw a little extra bit of extra screwiness in, we generate our own power with a sodding great waterwheel but because of money constraints we couldn't hook it up to power the building directly (has to go out to the grid and back) so it can't act as the most kick ass backup power supply ever when the powers out.

 

...except when the water's frozen.

 

Thankfully it doesn't tend to get anywhere near cold enough for that

 

Stick around. When the Atlantic conveyor fails due to melting of the North polar ice cap it will. Of course, your office will be under about 45 feet of non-seasonal tundra then, so keeping a waterwheel (or, indeed, your office) runmning will be the least of your troubles!