Questions tagged [physical-environment]

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with the physical environment of a system/deployment (e.g. dust, vibration, etc.) with no better, more specific tag.

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with the physical environment of a system/deployment. Examples include questions asking about "special" environments, like:

  • Substantial shock/vibration
  • High dust levels
  • High levels of EM interference
  • Extremely hot or cold temperatures, or wide temperature swings
  • Extremely humid areas

If a more specific tag exists, please use that instead.

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Maximum safe hard drive temperature?

I have two new-ish 1TB hard drives in my server, both running at 38 degrees C at the moment. Should I be worried?
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Server Room Temperature Control - Does anyone have a similar setup?

Our Server room is located in the middle of our building and has no access to a window or outside ventilation. I had a quote done by a local heating/air conditioning company to install a room specific temperature control module, but this was going…
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Dealing with dust?

I know I'm pretty allergic to dust. However, dealing with servers and workstations on a day to day basis, I encounter it all the time. How do you deal with dust?
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Power and Cooling Cost compared with Server/Hardware Cost

Has anyone done, or is aware of any, calculations to compare the cost of power and cooling compared to the cost of hardware (servers) in a typical data center? This is to compute a true total cost of ownership of self-hosting servers. Of course real…
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Heat generated by a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 entry EU servers

I have to buy a stand alone server rack to be placed in a machine room. The temperature can reach 30°C in the room (I have no choice with regards to the location). In order to correct for this I will use active cooling with the used air being…
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HP DL380G6: Where is the Temp. Sensor #29 (System Zone)?

The Temp. Sensor #29 of my HP DL380G6 seems to give me a wrong number. It says that the temperature is more than 50C (Caution: 60C, Critical: 65C) while the actual value is 13C. And I think it may be the reason why all fans run madly at 78% of the…
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How to simulate air flow in a datacenter?

I have an idea for a datacenter architecture which, I believe, would be very effective in terms of passive cooling. I need to do air flow simulations to be sure that the idea is as great as I believe, before suggesting it to companies who design…
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automatic get server temperature via HP iLO

I have a couple of HP servers in 2 offices. They have iLO interfaces and i can read the temperature from there. How can i read this temperature automaticaly over the network ? does iLO have any sort of API ?? best regards.
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Server room in shipping containers

I was wondering if anyone have experience with building server rooms in shipping containers, how viable it is, and what to look out for. We need more space, but can't build due to restrictions, so we are wondering about placing down some permanent…
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Cleaning soot out of a server

Cleaning dusty servers is one thing - but I have a slightly different problem: Soot in the servers! During some warm summer months, we needed to open the windows at our server room. Unfortunately, the windows are located directly above the exhaust…
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Regarding temperature in our server cabinet

We have a floor standing server cabinet, which sits in the corner of our office. There is no AC in the office, and the average temperature is around 21C (70F). The server cabinet currently contains 2 tower servers, a switch and a router. It's well…
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A computer in a dusty environment (factory)

We have a computer in a dusty environment. Worked for more than a year and then PSU died, probably because PSU fan wasn't cooling enought good. I tried to rotate the fan by hand and it was rotating hard. We have a need for another computer in…
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how many blade enclosures can you fit in a rack?

Considering the power and cooling requirements of HP's or IBM's newest blade (10U) chassis fully stacked, how many of them can you fit in a standard size rack (42 U) ?
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Determining amount and cost of cooling needed

I have a system that is using 2.02kWh per day, and I'm trying to figure out its heat output, cooling needs, and cooling cost. I've worked it all out to the point of determining the amount of cooling needed (hopefully that's right), but I don't know…
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How to check CPU/HDD temperature under XenServer 5.6?

Is it possible to check the temperature of the CPU and locally attached SATA/IDE HDDs under XenServer 5.6? Can I install lm-sensors?
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