The temperature in the UK has been pretty high recently, which has had an adverse affect on the temperature in our server room. It’s only taken three years of moaning, but I think the message is finally starting to sink in, helped by the fact that some of our kit is switching itself off with heat errors and one server has burnt out completely.
Why is it people will spend loads of money on fault tolerant kit, then think it’s OK to install it in a sauna?
I must admit to feling a certain amount of satisfaction whilst saying, “I told you so!” 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
Had a similar one happen to us last Summer. Told the boss there was a limit to how many BTUs our air-con could dissipate. He insisted all was fine and I was “just exagerating”. A lot of things may fail, but thermodynamics ain’t one of them yet…
So, the servers started to fail. We went back to single AU blades with a fixed btu rating pronto. Instead of the el-cheapo big-boxed PCs we were getting instead!
Nothing like a sprinkle of reality to get a damager’s mind rattling. 🙂
“A lot of things may fail, but thermodynamics ain’t one of them yet…”
LOL 😉
I think, it’s not a suprise for them ….
Every one know a server will be heated.