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April 18, 2005 at 5:24 am #2187409
S. room Temp. suggestion
Lockedby johnnywatt · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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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April 18, 2005 at 6:45 am #3246892
Server room temperature
by craig herberg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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.
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April 18, 2005 at 11:27 am #3248083
Yes
by johnnywatt · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Server room temperature
There is a separate thermostat. It appears to be room tempature around 76.
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April 18, 2005 at 7:41 am #3246848
Operation parameters
by cactus pete · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to S. room Temp. suggestion
Look at the parameters for the hardware you have. Should be in the manual.
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April 18, 2005 at 11:27 am #3248082
No
by johnnywatt · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Operation parameters
No manuals, sorry.
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April 18, 2005 at 3:11 pm #3247967
Website
by cactus pete · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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…)
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April 18, 2005 at 5:34 pm #3247945
What Dell says
by craig herberg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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
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April 19, 2005 at 6:12 am #3248498
DELL and Compaqs
by johnnywatt · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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.
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April 19, 2005 at 6:13 am #3248497
Thank you
by johnnywatt · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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?
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April 19, 2005 at 7:34 am #3248453
S. Room temp
by newu · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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.
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April 19, 2005 at 12:28 pm #3248318
Length of time?
by johnnywatt · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to S. Room temp
How long have they been running under those tempatures? Just curious
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July 14, 2005 at 5:55 am #3190187
RE: Length of time
by newu · about 18 years, 8 months ago
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For about 36 months now.
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April 19, 2005 at 9:04 am #3248411
68 if constant, is good
by cactus pete · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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.
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April 19, 2005 at 9:22 am #3248402
Don’t forget the hum-diddy
by angry_white_male · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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.
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April 19, 2005 at 12:31 pm #3248317
It’s dedicated
by johnnywatt · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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.
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April 19, 2005 at 4:30 pm #3248199
Don’t forget the portables
by jmgarvin · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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.
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April 19, 2005 at 4:34 pm #3248194
Portable A/C
by craig herberg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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.
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April 20, 2005 at 8:17 am #3248999
That’s a good point, too
by cactus pete · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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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