I have not had that issue and have had my second DC offline for 3 days at a time BUT I don't do it on a regular basis. I put in a small room AC that is a stand-alone in room I got over at Lowe's to cool one of the "server rooms". It works well even here in Florida. I would if at all possible set it to vent outside if you can otherwise the humidity will build up in the room or you will have a puddle on the floor every Monday. We are waiting on our budget but have been told to expect 15% off the top is now gone. This was in addition to the 10% that disappeared last year.
Jon On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:24 AM, John Hornbuckle < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our district is in a situation where massive budget cuts are necessary. > One of the things upper management wants to do is to put everyone on a > 4-day work week for the two months that school is out for summer. They > envision shutting everything off--including air conditioning--on > Thursdays and leaving it off until Monday mornings. > > Each school has one server which is a jack-of-all trades--DC, file, DNS, > DHCP. One site also has a second file/application server. > > Server rooms and IDFs aren't on separate cooling systems, so they would > be affected by this. And also, this is Florida. Our NOC, which has its > own A/C system, will remain cooled. > > My first reaction was that of course the servers would need to be shut > down on Thursdays and staff off until Monday mornings. The more I > thought about it, I came to feel like the switches in all of the IDFs > will need to be shut down, too, due to heat and humidity. So that means > all servers and all switches at all schools would be shutdown Thursday > night, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, then brought back up on Monday > mornings. > > I'm looking for input on the ramifications of this. Obviously, it will > take some time for everything to come back up on Mondays. And while it > shouldn't be so, the reality is that any time you shut down a piece of > equipment there's a chance that it won't come back up or will come up > with a problem. Is there anything else I need to consider? Like any > problems that may come from DCs being offline for extended periods of > time? > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > 318 North Clark Street > Perry, FL 32347 > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
