[OPLINTECH] Ideas for server room & technology work area (esp. server room size)?

[Phil Shirley]

As part of the renovation of the main floor of our library, the 
technology department will be moved to the lower level (ok, "basement"). 
  This will include office space for two full-time people, storage, and 
the server room.  I've looked at lots of other libraries' server rooms 
in touring their buildings, but it's a different thing to have to come 
up with one myself.  Below are some of my thoughts; I would appreciate 
anyone's input on this.

The most important thing we need to decide now is the major requirements 
- size and basic layout of the rooms (but comments about anything else 
would also be appreciated).  Do you think 10 x 14 feet would be good for 
our server room?  Details below.

Server room: Right now we don't have a real server room and don't have 
racks for our equipment or anything like that.  To give you an idea of 
our size, we have:
Rack-mount:
- About 80 data drops
- 3 rack-mount servers
- 7 pieces of rack-mountable network equipment (switches, etc.)
- 1 rack-mount UPS & 1 rack-mount tape drive
- possibly the terminations of about 30 phone lines

Other:
- 3 mini-tower PC workstations
- 1 tower Dell PowerEdge (2' deep)
- 2 free-standing UPSs
- 2 modems and a small tape drive
- possibly a wall-mounted phone system
- 1 KVM switch for everything, with 1 monitor, keyboard, & mouse

We will also have an air conditioner.

I'm thinking that all of this would fit in at most 2 tall racks plus a 
4-foot "LAN Station" like this one: 
http://www.server-rack-online.com/lan-racks.html

That would be just over 7 feet long if you put it all side-by-side.  I 
think we would want plenty of space on all sides.  I think if we put 
this more-or-less in the middle of a 10 x 14-foot room it would be fine. 
(I have 10 x 14 in mind for the 2 offices and 1 storage room, so I 
thought it might work for the server room.)

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Phil
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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary dot org

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