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Outfitting a Brand New Datacenter?
An anonymous reader writes "We completed our new 4,000 sq. ft. data center (Tier II/III, according to The Uptime Institute) and just recently moved our core systems from our old data center to the new. We've been up and running for several months now and I'm preparing to close out the project. The last piece is to purchase some accessories and tools for the new location. The short list so far consists of a Server Lift, a few extra floor tile pullers, flashlights and a crash cart. We'll also add to the tools in the toolbox located in one of the auxiliary rooms — these things seem to have legs! What are we missing? Where can we find crash carts set up more for a data center environment (beyond the utility cart with and LCD, keyboard, and mouse strapped to it)?"
A zero point module to only be used for defence of the datacenter , powering the shield, or incase of power outages.
My UID is prime is yours?
We recently had a catastrophic failure of our data center. We had a planned generator test that went horribly wrong. Unfortunately we'd added so many computers that our battery backups only had 10 or 15 minutes of power. Unfortunately the computer operator missed something and everything went down hard. Except for one computer system.
The Tandem that houses our main clinical application had this big array of D batteries. We'd always made fun of the administrators because of it, but miraculously it stayed up when everyone else went down. I now bow down before their primitive greatness.
Whoa there. Don't lose your cool - what the commenting system is for, ultimately, is an exchange of ideas, yo.
First off, it's not like the guy is asking for advise on critical systems like cooling or something. It's more like a last minute gizmo checkup(or a way to rid themselves of budget leftovers?) Some people can come up with things the "asker" or the other readers hadn't thought of - for example, it would never occur to me about tarps in a DC(credit: a few posts below) because mine is sandwiched between 10-12 floors of office space and an underground parking lot. But maybe to the next person it will be of some use. Besides, the lower one is on the n00bness-to-pro scale(and I am!:D), the more useful this kind of old pro information is.
P.S. Funny how appropriate my sig is today, eh?
P.P.S. Pedant alert - I took the liberty of correcting your title:) o-c-y instead of o-c-i-t-y.
Microsoft put the "sucks" in "success".