> I've been asked to put together a proposal for a modest > server room (i > mean closet actually, roughly 8 x 8) and was fishing for > some guidance, > suggestions, links, etc. from the veterans out there. I've > been told > to shoot for the moon so that we can still wind up with some decent > hardware after the high-ups have their say. We're looking > to get a new > rack, some form of climate-control and UPS. I'm a newbie > at this so > please tell me if I've grossly overlooked vital parts of any > reputable, > scalable server room. > > Thanks in advance, > Jurvis
>From a EDU, sounds like someone's homework assignment....... If it is, please STOP here. you went to college to LEARN new things and how to SOLVE new problems. Do your own research, picking peoples brains for the answers is not going to help you longterm..... Dad. ============================================================ ======== You first need to define the Need......... 1) what do you already have and will keep in the new environment 2) How much downtime can you afford if systems fail? = # AC and UPS units 3) raised floor or vinyl? I prefer raised with a minimum height of 8 inches. but you need to be able to raise the ceiling up as well. 4) 8X 8 is kinda TINY for an equipment room. You will need to go vertical for maximum capacity by installing tall 82" or higher cabinets (watch your ceiling height). 5) You will need a minimum of 2.5 Feet for the depth of most equipment cabinets, 2 feet behind the cabinets and 2 feet in front. You will also need two feet of walk around room. All of this is subject to local building and fire codes. This gives you one row of cabinets maximum. If you figure in a modest console table, two monitors, that eats up five feet of your overall length- so that is out. So you need to rack mount the consoles and that means flat panel LCD monitors in 1U slide out drawers connected to a KVM switch (Belkin). I would get a 2X8 Matrix belkin unit or equivalent and have two consoles available in the cabinets for all the systems. At most you are going to get Three cabinets in this room - they are two feet wide for 19inch retma's. This means wall mount or ceiling mount Air conditioner. Check out LEIBERT for ceiling mount units. You need at least a three ton unit but the AC sales rep will size it for you. cabinets should have vented doors and cooling fans. No taller than 6 inches from the as built ceiling height. UPS - APC (www.apcc.com) A Smartups or Symettra rack mount unit, You will need at least two to support three cabinets. A Symettra installed in the central cabinet would be adequate if sized properly to run all three cabinets. You will need rack mount power strips preferrably with AMP meters on them to tell you the load. One or two (or more) per cabinet. If you have a lot of routers and front mount comm gear, then you might want to substitute a Chatsworth or Newton IDF frame for a cabinet to hold that equipment. Fire control - FM-200 or Water? you will need automatic power cutoff with either. The walls of your data center will need to reach from the underlying slab to the very top of the ceiling level (the bottom of the floor above, be constructed of fireproof wall board and stuffed with open faced fiberglass batting to cut down on noise. A raised floor will have to come out from the entry door and have steps to descend to ground level. You will need a portable ramp to drop on the steps to give you an inclined plane to roll equipment in/out of the data center. You cant afford the space for a built in ramp within the CUBE. A 7 X 9 room would actually give you more usable space. allow 5 inches for wall thickness -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
