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    S. room Temp. suggestion

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    by johnnywatt ·

    Fellow IT’ers, can I get a recommendation on a server room tempature for small room, 3 servers and phone system?

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    • #3246892

      Server room temperature

      by craig herberg ·

      In reply to S. room Temp. suggestion

      If you can keep the room in the low 70s F., that would be good. Do you have a separate thermostat in the room? Don’t forget ventilation.

    • #3246848

      Operation parameters

      by cactus pete ·

      In reply to S. room Temp. suggestion

      Look at the parameters for the hardware you have. Should be in the manual.

      • #3248082

        No

        by johnnywatt ·

        In reply to Operation parameters

        No manuals, sorry.

        • #3247967

          Website

          by cactus pete ·

          In reply to No

          The model can probably be found on the website of the manufacturer. If you have any trouble, post the models and I’ll help you out (probably someone will even beat me to it…)

        • #3247945

          What Dell says

          by craig herberg ·

          In reply to Website

          According to this Dell article, typical room temp is 68 F. http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/rack_coolingdense.doc

        • #3248498

          DELL and Compaqs

          by johnnywatt ·

          In reply to What Dell says

          1 DELL PowerEdge server, 2 Compaq Servers and 3 other workstation PCs in the room. Also a PBX, dMarc , Adtran and Cisco 1700 router. Relatively small room. I am starting a new job and would like to offer a recommendation on room tempature. When I popped in during my interview it was room tempature and I thought to myself, this can’t be good.

        • #3248497

          Thank you

          by johnnywatt ·

          In reply to Website

          Thank you for your help. I don’t have the model number at this time. Do you agree with the post of 68 F for server room tempature?

        • #3248453

          S. Room temp

          by newu ·

          In reply to Thank you

          If you keep it in the 68-70 range you shouldn’t have any problem.

          I have seen a server room that had servers running in 79-91 degree heat. Despite repeated suggestions to get the room better AC they decided not to do anything about it. The interesting part is that the servers in the room haven’t had any problems……yet.

        • #3248318

          Length of time?

          by johnnywatt ·

          In reply to S. Room temp

          How long have they been running under those tempatures? Just curious

        • #3190187

          RE: Length of time

          by newu ·

          In reply to Length of time?

          For about 36 months now.

        • #3248411

          68 if constant, is good

          by cactus pete ·

          In reply to Thank you

          Remember to put enough cooling there to accomodate future growth. What is just as important is a constant humidity level. You don’t want it too dry or too wet in there… We keep ours around the low 30s.

    • #3248402

      Don’t forget the hum-diddy

      by angry_white_male ·

      In reply to S. room Temp. suggestion

      We keep our server room around 68 degrees with the humidity at around 35%

      If you see regularly condensation in your server room – you’re gonna have problems.

      Work with the person who takes care of the HVAC for your facility – make sure everything’s at the right level. Ideally the server room should have it’s own dedicated HVAC system and a good air filtration system – otherwise, by keeping the server room cool – you may be deep freezing the people working in that part of the building.

      Also consider that if you have a halon or other type of fire extinguishing system that smothers the flames, that if the server room has a common cold-air return to that of the rest of the building, you may cause problems for the rest of the building’s occupants. So really you need to have the room phyiscally isolated from the rest of the building environment.

      • #3248317

        It’s dedicated

        by johnnywatt ·

        In reply to Don’t forget the hum-diddy

        There is a separate HVAC and thermostat in the room. I believe when I stepped in there, the tempature was 76F.

      • #3248199

        Don’t forget the portables

        by jmgarvin ·

        In reply to Don’t forget the hum-diddy

        You might want to keep a couple of portable A/Cs in the room as well…just in case.

        68F is usually pretty good and you probably don’t want to go above 72F-74F. You should have an alarm that signals if you get above or below threshold.

        Also, make sure the air actually circulates, if it doesn’t you might still have heat problems.

        • #3248194

          Portable A/C

          by craig herberg ·

          In reply to Don’t forget the portables

          If you use portables, make sure they vent outside the room. As far as I know, they haven’t improved them to 110% efficiency yet.

        • #3248999

          That’s a good point, too

          by cactus pete ·

          In reply to Don’t forget the portables

          Make sure the cool air is goign to the intake of the equipments’ fans. Don’t cool the exhaust, or you won’t really do much. If possible, have the hvac pull ait from behind the devices and blow air into the front.

          If you have a UPS in there, you can probably add an environmental monitor to the device and have it alert you when temp and hum. fall outside your preferred paramters.

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