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

[Bruce Landis]

2 areas should receive specific attention:

1. Make sure the 'air conditioner' is of adequate size and situated where
condensate won't be a problem.; also explore the possibilities for 'positive
air pressure' in the space to ensure dust control. If you are moving to an
enclosed area from a more open space, you may be amazed at how fast a heat
buildup will occur.

2. Do a full power budget and arrange for a sufficient number of circuits as
well as outlets.  If you supply ILS server or data services to more than one
site, then generator backup should become a consideration.

Best wishes

Bruce Landis
Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]On
Behalf Of Phil Shirley
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:18 AM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Ideas for server room & technology work area
(esp.server room size)?


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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