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Recommended Server Room Temperature

Submitted by dlaverty on Fri, 2009/02/20 - 14:08

An exploration of the recommended server room temperature and the issues surrounding maintaining the recommended temperature.

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Environmental Monitoring - A Server Room Essential?

Submitted by dlaverty on Fri, 2009/02/20 - 11:12

Environmental monitoring is essential in your server rooms & data centers. Environmental conditions have a huge impact on how reliable and long lived your servers, switches and routers will be. Bad environmental conditions can reduce the life of components, decrease reliability, and cause you untold problems and expense.

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Monitoring the Operational Status of Computer Room Air Conditioners (CRAC)

Submitted by Jack Hughes on Thu, 2009/08/27 - 13:38

A breakdown of the status factors to measure and record for each Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC) unit in your computer room, data centre or server room. The paper also gives a justification for why you should record each status factor and what you should do with the information once you've recorded it.

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Monitoring Temperature in the Server Room

Submitted by Jack Hughes on Tue, 2009/08/25 - 09:56

An investigation into the issues involved in measuring the temperature in your server room along with some suggestions for how you should go about it.

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Server Room Thermometer

Submitted by Jack Hughes on Fri, 2009/08/21 - 14:33

An outline of the various options you have when you are choosing a server room thermometer including the pros and cons of each

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Alternating Hot and Cold Aisles Provides More Reliable Cooling for Server Farms

Submitted by Jack Hughes on Thu, 2009/02/26 - 14:05

The creation of "server farms" comprising hundreds of individual file servers has become quite commonplace in the new e-commerce economy, while other businesses spawn farms by moving equipment previously in closets or under desktops into a centralized data center environment. However, many of these farms are hastily planned and implemented as the needed equipment must be quickly installed on a rush schedule. The typical result is a somewhat haphazard layout on the raised floor that can have disastrous consequences due to environment temperature disparities. Unfortunatley, this lack of floor-layout planning is not apparent until after serious reliability problems have already occurred.

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Skimp on Server Room Air Conditioning? At Your Peril

Submitted by Jack Hughes on Fri, 2009/02/20 - 11:51

The following is an excerpt from a reply by Robert G. Brown, Duke University first posted on www.beowulf.org Just how crucial adequate air conditioning is, the relative costs, and the fall-out he experienced for months after an AC failure is clearly illustrated.

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Data Center Environmental Monitoring Recommendations

Submitted by dlaverty on Sun, 2005/02/20 - 16:40

Stable environmental conditions are vital to reliable operation of your data center. This article explains the areas that you should be concerned about and provides best practice guidelines.

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