Even if you keep the room in the mid 70's you should get a reading right
next to the servers in the rack you will see about a 15 to 20 degrees
difference. Tell your boss it is like running a temperature yourself. You
can survive and function at 104 degrees but you are miserable, you don't
give accurate information, and you are sluggish. You could possible slip
into a coma if your temp goes up a degree or two and you could lose brain
function and memory loss. If that is what he wants by saving a few dollars
then yeah raise. Hell shut it off and hope the internal fans keep it cool
enough. If the AC is pulling to much power maybe a wiser approach is to get
an energy efficient AC unit...
Just my thoughts.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:25 AM
Subject: RE: PROPER OPERATING TEMPERATURES FOR SERVERS
Eh?
I've had racks of HPs running @ 100+ during HVAC events...
-sc
-----Original Message-----
From: Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: PROPER OPERATING TEMPERATURES FOR SERVERS
I'm surprised they run at that temp. HP servers will typically shutdown
around 90F.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: PROPER OPERATING TEMPERATURES FOR SERVERS
I've got a cheapskate boss so I've run them 95F+ for long periods of
time.
They're not properly rackmounted - due to our crappy and proprietary
Panduit racks we have no choice but to use shelves - which may have
helped them survive.
Don't be surprised if you get warranty rejections from the excessive
heat.
Murray Freeman wrote:
Like many companies these days, we're looking to reduce our expenses.
With the hot weather almost here in the Chicago area, I'm being asked
to
up the thermostat in our server room, to allow it to get warmer and
thus
save some money. We have been keeping the temperature around the mid
70's, and I'm concerned about higher temps in the server room causing
servers to crash or at least reduce their lifetime. What od you think
is
the maximum operating temperature for a room with servers? We humans
are
not in the room that often, so it's strictly a case of a safe
temperature for the hardware. There's no need to determine how many
servers I have or how large the room is, just the temperature
necessary
to safely operate servers.
--
Phil Brutsche
[email protected]
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