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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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Where do I put the server in a cramped office?

We have very limited options for our first server in our small office and none of them look good. We are buying one HP Proliant ML350 G5. Per the HP power calculator with our system specs, we're looking at 1500-1750 BTUs/hr. Our options for…
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When do I need to consider 3 phase power?

Ok, I'm trying my best not to make this too subjective and provide all the information I can and if you can help make this a better question then please suggest. My friend an I have a small software development business. We are looking at hosting…
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Walk-In Cooler Server Room?

After searching a little bit, I wasn't able to find any specific information on this, so here I am. We've got a single 42U rack with 6 servers and some switches. It is currently housed in a coat closet with a 14,000 btu portable air conditioner (our…
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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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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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Terminate short CAT5 uplinks?

My employer is moving to a new building and i'm in charge of creating/moving the IT infrastructure. There are 3 floors with a patch closet on each floor, then CAT5 uplinks down to the server room on the first floor. The uplinks are run down the…
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Moving server room to another part of the building

This question is a bit different than the typical we are moving our server room to an off site location or we are moving the whole office to a new building. Management wants to add some more office space and to do so they want to move the server…
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Cabling: What to keep in stock?

I have worked a few different places, each one with a different solution, so I would like to hear your suggestions and ideas. I am looking at a situation with multiple server-rooms. We have a mixture of copper (both ethernet and telephone),…
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Heat shrink cat5 cable labels

I'm looking for some feedback from someone who has used heat-shrink labels for cable management/identification in a server room environment. Specifically, I'm looking at the Brady IDXPERT printer with something like the XPS-375-CONT (.645" x…
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The Truth - Server Inventory And More

All IT shops that reach a certain number of servers have some of form of inventory. In web operations , but not limited to, there is some incarnation of the Truth concept - a comprehensive database that describes all the equipment, relation between…
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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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Rear mount or front mount switches

Where I work all the switches in a rack are mounted in the rear of the rack, but this presents a problem with hot isle cold isle cooling. The alternative is to mount the switches in the front of the rack with patch panels. But this wastes rack…
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Groupings for Network Cable Colors

I noticed a thread Network cable color conventions? that talked about what types of colors to use for cabling in server rooms and closets. I thought that if there was a general consensus as to the best set of functional cabling groups (i.e. see…
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Does the power consumed by an air conditioner adds to the total heat generation in a server room?

I have to size up the air conditioning in my server room. I have calculated a total load of all the power consuming equipment in my server room, i.e. servers, networking devices, SAN, lighting, UPS, and PDUs. Since the air conditioner also consumes…
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