[nflug] Server room A/C

[anthonyriga]

The room is like a closet. Its 20sq feet or so. The
rack sits in the middle of the room. There is only 8
servers on the rack. They is Uniland building. They
are front to back cooling
. --- Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com> wrote:

> The bigger issue is usually airflow, and not
> tonnage. Whats the layout of
> the servers, room, ac unit, and rack?
> What type of servers are they (front to back cooling
> or top to bottom). If
> you take a 1 tone ac unit and stick it right in
> front of a heater in a room,
> they'll battle each other out all day and your
> overall room temperature
> won't change.
> 
> Especially if you have newer type servers that cool
> from front to back.
> Sticking an AC unit in the back or the rack isn't
> going to do a thing. Those
> types of servers need cool are in the front..One
> other question, who is
> "They" and what is the problem that is making them
> state that you need a
> larger ac unit?
> 
> FYI, you could always go nuts and pull up the specs
> of each server. It'll
> list the btu outputs. But again, it's more airflow
> than general cooling with
> front to back cooling servers.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
> [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> anthonyriga
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:59 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: [nflug] Server room A/C
> 
> Comany I am doing work for has a room thats about
> 20sq
> ft. The ac died and I have a temp ac in the room
> now.
> The A/C is a 1 ton and they are saying we need a
> bigger ac for the server room. There are 8 2u all on
> a
> rack with 2 swiches one router. I think a 1 ton btu
> is
> good for the room but they are suggesting a bigger
> one. Any suggestions?
> 
> 
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