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New Data Center Standard
mstansberry writes to tell us that the Telecommunications Industry Association (the people who brought you the CAT standards for unshielded twisted pair cabling) recently published a 148 page document meant to standardize the design considerations for every single aspect of a data center. The standard covers everything from site selection to rack mounting methods.
How boring ... who wants to work somewhere identical to the last place. And identical to your friends' places of work.
... and I'm not bloody paying $250 just to make more work for myself.
How about letting a bit of originality in once in a while?
Oh yeah
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Seriously. If all manuals were that expensive there would have been no 'RTFM'. It would have been 'STFM'.
Loose lips lose spit.
I welcome this standard with open arms. I look forward to the not-too-distant day when I will be able to buy 100m(sq) of Standard Data Centre on eBay for $25. No more un-backed-up un-RAIDed hard drives for my mp3s!
// It had been Fat's delusion for years that he could help people. --Philip K. Dick, Valis
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I never said I was smart, I just said I was smarter than you
A data center shall consist of hardware, appropriate HVAC, and gigabytes of pornography.
My two favs:
/sbin/fsck-y on the console - "It says command not found", says the "engineer".
#1. Driving all the way to the data center at 4 am to find the keyboard plugged into the mouse port - "The keyboard's not responding", says the "engineer".
#2. Driving all the way at to the data center at 3am to see
Installed X and AIM after that and made the "engineers" read the commands off that provided they could get that working.
You would have loved the computer room I did some work in during the 1980s - the builders got the dimensions wrong and there was a 4 foot void under the tiles instead of 4 inches!! The owners had to have special pedestals made to hold up the tiles and they actually put some servers under the floor!
AT&ROFLMAO
Did they later convert that space to a cubicle farm?
I think I worked there.
-- My Weblog.
But without raised floors where am I supposed to hide the bodies?
Don't worry, it's available in PDF. I predict it's available over eDonkey or BitTorrent within the week.
Another one bites the dust
To me, that does not imply buying a cheap rack, getting a T1 and a router, and sticking 5 servers in whatever closet is available in your office space.
You just described our setup almost exactly.
Above sea level. Check.
Somewhere the US/Chinese government won't be monitor ing everything... still looking.
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/