Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:40:34PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jerome BENOIT put forth on 3/14/2011 7:58 PM: Just curious: why the UPS must be at the bottom ? Your attempt at being a smart ass aside, I'll answer your question. The answer, however, isn't the simple one you're expecting.

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dan Ritter put forth on 3/18/2011 12:13 PM: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:40:34PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jerome BENOIT put forth on 3/14/2011 7:58 PM: Just curious: why the UPS must be at the bottom ? Your attempt at being a smart ass aside, I'll answer your question. The answer,

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 15/03/11 03:40, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jerome BENOIT put forth on 3/14/2011 7:58 PM: Just curious: why the UPS must be at the bottom ? Your attempt at being a smart ass aside, I do not think so: I was really curious. I plan to play with UPS soon. I'll answer your question. Thanks a

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-15 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Jason Hsu's message of Mon Mar 14 19:31:00 +0100 2011: How do you protect servers from lightning? [...] Others already answered this, but I'd like to stress the fact that you'll need proper protection on _all_ levels. Surge protectors will only do what they're intended to do if

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-15 Thread Joe
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:43:20 +0100 Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Jason Hsu's message of Mon Mar 14 19:31:00 +0100 2011: How do you protect servers from lightning? [...] Others already answered this, but I'd like to stress the fact that you'll need

OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-14 Thread Jason Hsu
How do you protect servers from lightning? What backup power sources do you use to keep them running during power outages? Unlike a home computer for strictly personal use, you can't just shut down and unplug server equipment every time there are thunderstorms in the area, ESPECIALLY in you

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/14/2011 1:31 PM: How do you protect servers from lightning? During facility construction: www.erico.com/public/library/fep/LT1421.pdf What backup power sources do you use to keep them running during power outages? Generally, one Smart-UPS RT 10KVA RM per rack of

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 15/03/11 01:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jason Hsu put forth on 3/14/2011 1:31 PM: How do you protect servers from lightning? During facility construction: www.erico.com/public/library/fep/LT1421.pdf What backup power sources do you use to keep them running during power outages?

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:58:00AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi ! On 15/03/11 01:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jason Hsu put forth on 3/14/2011 1:31 PM: How do you protect servers from lightning? During facility construction: www.erico.com/public/library/fep/LT1421.pdf What backup power

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jerome BENOIT put forth on 3/14/2011 7:58 PM: Just curious: why the UPS must be at the bottom ? Your attempt at being a smart ass aside, I'll answer your question. The answer, however, isn't the simple one you're expecting. I stated bottom of the server rack explicitly because some SAs