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Oct/091
Oct/091
Going GREEN at the Datacenter? Better check your server temperatures!
TechOps Guy: Jason
It seems innocuous enough, but we recently stumbled across the following Windows Event Log error indicating our servers were running at a very cool 8 degrees C…in fact, too cool!
So you’re asking what’s the GREEN connection? It turns out when we contacted our datacenter provider, Internap/Sabey they replied with the following:
“In an effort to be “green” we have been in economizer mode drawing cooling from the chilly outside air. We have adjusted our set points to correct this. I’ve left a message with the customer as well.
Thanks and let me know if there are any other questions”
In short, definitely make sure you have temperature monitoring, not just for heat, but for cold.
October 12th, 2009
Green! I’m not sure if too cold is green
These systems operate in up to 104 degrees ambient temp – http://www.sgi.com/pdfs/4174.pdf
Our east coast facility’s PDUs have been telling us the humidity is getting a bit low, when we moved in it was above 40%, now it’s hovering right at 30%
Our mid-west facility’s PDUs noted a big drop in humidity too in the past week or so, was hovering around 60%, nose dived to ~40% in recent days.
I’d attach graphs but don’t see a way to do that in a comment.