[76545] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Server Room Environment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Gilmour)
Tue Dec 14 12:10:39 2004
From: Ken Gilmour <ken@playersonly.com>
To: Erik Sundberg <sunder@appscorp.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:10:11 GMT
In-Reply-To: <IFEFLJEJBOICBMLCIKGKGEHDECAA.sunder@appscorp.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Captain's Log, stardate Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:00:16 -0600, from the fingers of=
Erik Sundberg came the words:
>
>=A0I have a couple of quick questions about environmental settings for
>=A0server rooms.
>
>=A0What is the ideal temperature and humidity for a server room? What
>=A0is too cold for a server room? What should the humidity range be?
>
>=A0Thanks
>=A0Erik
I'm not sure what the *Ideal* temperature should be but we keep our cabinets=
at 21 degrees centigrade inside. And the outside room temperature at=
between 6-16 degrees centigrade. The reason for the outside room=
temperature being so cold is because the cabinets have extractor fans which=
extract the hot air from the top of the cabinet and exhaust it into the=
room. It's then re-cooled and recirculated back into the underneath of the=
cabinet, as much as it needs to stay between 19-23 degrees.
The thermometers are kept in the center of each cabinet away from the fans=
at the back of the machines. (which also have thermometers in them and suck=
cold air from the front and extract hot air through the back.)
HTH
Regards,
Ken
