WARNING: You could be making these Summertime Slip-Ups with your company’s server! (AND DATA!)
Excess heat is a huge problem for all of the equipment in your server room; it is even bad for laptops and Desktops. If proper attention isn’t given to your server and network equipment during the summer, all the heat outside can cause serious damage to your server, frying your system- literally!
Here are few steps you can take to insure that your server equipment and network don’t overheat this summer:
- Tidy up the server room; an uncluttered space will increase air flow. (Not to mention, a clean server room is easier to work in. If you have cables everywhere it’s easy to unplug the wrong one, and cause an outage.)
- Arrange multiple servers in a row so that the cold air comes from the front and is expelled out the back.
- Use a redundant A/C that is specifically designed for computers.
- Consider a rack enclosure with a built in cooling system.
- Install a temperature monitor that can automaticlly email you when your server room gets too hot; we like to use the one by APC.
- Keep the temperature below 77 degrees.
- Make sure you keep the doors to the server room closed, the seal prevents dust from entering the space and building up. Dust contributes to electronic equipment overheating by clogging up and slowing down fans.
- If you have any empty spaces on your server rack, install blanking panels to fill them. Empty spaces in your rack reduce air flow.
- Consider virtualization as tool to reduce the amount of heat in your server room, by reducing the number of servers.
Hope everyone is having a great summer, and let us know if you would like us to schedule a network audit and come out to take a look at your server room. Cheers!
