Totally agree with all respondents...another worthwhile standard, if you can afford the space, is to mount your rack systems on shelves with a 1U space between each unit. We have put in some very large digital video installations and the 1U gap has transformed the cooling in the 47U rack cabinets...not to mention the ease of changing units mounted on shelves.
In one installation, due to an existing badly designed underfloor air conditioning, we also installed mesh doors instead of steel or glass, this again made a huge difference. A common mistake on large installations is the use of single, large UPS and Air conditioning units. Try and get the installers to provide multiple units so that any one unit can fail without jeopardising the computer system. Hope this helps. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Dorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Server room Environment > On Monday, July 7, 2003, 09:04:35, Troy Hilton wrote: > T> Thanks for this. I'm dealing with the same issue/question right now. There's > T> a debate amongst the owners about proper server room temps. Now I have some > T> ammo to shoot in this argument. > > Another thing to watch out for is hot spots in clustered (i.e. rack > mounted) equipment. > > A perfectly acceptable rack enclosure can be rendered deadly to > equipment by blocked inlets/outlets, bad cable routing, dead or dieing > fans, overloading the rated head load, etc. > > If you can, a simple thermometer placed in various locations in the rack > can help check for hot spots. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too > Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
