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How dangerous is a wet server room floor

We have a couple of tower servers in a small server room. The carpet is wet as a result of the cooler and no-one else really seems concerned about this but I'm not too happy. I'm only a lowly developer, but I seem to be more concerned than the…
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Server room survival kit?

Trips to the server room can mean extended periods away from the comforts of home, or at least your desk. Especially if it is an off-site hosting facility. What should you take with you, apart from a warm sweater for places with good…
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Where is the best place to label a server?

There isn't much room on server chassis and I'm wondering where a label with the servers name should go. Is there any other information in addition to the name that should go on the label? Does it make sense to label each hard drive in a server or…
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Are bare steel floor tiles suitable for a server room?

We're moving in to a new building, soon. Most of the building has a raised access floor consisting of 600x600mm square tiles; galvanised steel-coated MDF. (The closest equivalent I can find is Tate Woodcore.) These tiles are pre-drilled and screwed…
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Advice on moving a machine room to a new location?

Our company is moving to new offices in a couple of months, and I am responsible for looking after the move of the development servers in the company. most of the dev equipment is in 5, 42U cabinets + rack for switching/routing equipment. How do…
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Strange bipping sound in Server room!

I have since yesterday a weird "bip" every minute in the server room. It comes from the unit, where 2 servers, one switch and a router are installed. Can anyone help me with this? I'm working in an office right near it! Thanks.
waszkiewicz
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Noisy server rooms

Are everyone else's server rooms noisy? Do you have continuous sound metering, do you put meters in from time to time, or do you just put up with it? Does anyone wear ear protectors in a server room?
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How do I locate a high-pitched screetching sound in my server room?

What are the steps to troubleshoot my server room? There is a high-pitched screeching sound that is starting to drive me crazy. I am not sure if it may be a fan, but as there is no tech support in-house; I would like to try and figure out what's…
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How can I identify the manufacturer of our raised floor?

I'm managing servers in a 'hand-me-down' computer room, where we have absolutely no documentation about the floor system, and I'm attempting to determine who the manufacturer was so that I can then attempt to find the rating load of the floor and…
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Controlling heat in the server room

Regarding keeping a server room cool: on the low end, there's box fans. On the high end, there are architectural changes to the building. What are some practical ways to keep the room cool without resorting to either of these extremes?
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server room specification standards

Is anyone aware of any standards or guidelines for server rooms or data centers (of any scale)? I am in the process of making suggestions for a design and although some things come out of experience it would be good to be following some standard…
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Downsizing From a Cage to Racks

When moving from a cage to racks at a datacenter, what is some equipment I might need. I have already thought about pull-out monitor/keyboard and IP KVMs. What else might I need? Also, how do you store the extra stuff such as network cables?
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data room access in a hospital

I am the librarian for a large hospital - Hoping to tap into the collective wisdom of the group for a request that came to our library from our IS department Can anyone provide a resource or (ideally) a policy statement from their hospital re data…
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Cooling for a very small server room?

I reorganized everything in a room to make it into a "official" server room so to speak. It was full of boxes, old junk, etc. and right now there is only a cabinet with office material. The reason I cleaned it out is because I think that random…
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Do all the servers in a server room function as one server?

In a server room..do all the servers function as one server? Is it like a bunch of computers doing the same think (like a cluster supercomputer) and how do they communicate with each other? I have been looking everywhere on the internet but I still…
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