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Questions tagged [airflow]

Use this tag for questions related to the flow of air (airflow is a critical aspect for maintaining the performance and reliability of equipment running inside of a modern datacenter as well as their overall energy efficiency)

Airflow is a critical aspect for maintaining the performance and reliability of equipment running inside of a modern datacenter as well as their overall energy efficiency. As new advances like passive cooling techniques, modularization of the datacenter environment, and highly configurable and manageable network equipment emerge understanding how air flows will become increasingly important.

Use this tag for questions related to the flow of air.

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Cisco Catalyst 2960 Switches - Can I reverse the air flow?

I have some equipment that will be moved to a new datacenter soon. At the current datacenter, the switches are mounted in the back of the racks so the air flow for the switches is reverse in comparison to the rest of the equipment on the…
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Server corrosion, air conditioning and climate control

We made the unfortunate discovery that our servers in our in-office server room are rusting away. This came to light after the first one had failed. One obvious candidate is the AC unit, that something is wrong with its humidity regulation. So, I…
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How to decrease humidity level in a server room

We have a small server room and the humidity level inside the room is far from the ideal. We have been measuring it between 60% and 68% for 3 months. Ambient room humidity inside the building is about 50%. Using dry mode of the air conditioner did…
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Does the power consumed by an air conditioner adds to the total heat generation in a server room?

I have to size up the air conditioning in my server room. I have calculated a total load of all the power consuming equipment in my server room, i.e. servers, networking devices, SAN, lighting, UPS, and PDUs. Since the air conditioner also consumes…
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Dell Motherboard failures - condensation?

Since April 2018 I've had multiple motherboard failure on my Dell servers (at least 12). We've operated dell servers in this location for over 20 years without a problem. Since April however its been non stop problems. The one environmental change…
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How can I get Airflow on Linux run a VBS script that is automatically downloading SAP data?

I have an Airflow installed on CentOS and I am able to run scripts/commando's on my Windows 10 machine. However, I have a VBS script that starts Excel and SAP Logon and then automatically logins, fills in some fields and download a file. When I run…
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Which server specs to look for for a Scheduler in a data stack?

I'm in the process of building a data stack for a small company : the choice has been made to have a UNIX server running as a "Scheduler". The goal of this scheduler is just to extract data from different applications and send it back to a in-cloud…
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How should "CPU usage per node" be interpreted in Google Cloud monitoring?

In the monitoring tab for Composer (Airflow) on Google Cloud there is a graph showing "CPU usage per node". How should the values in this graph be interpreted? What value would indicate that the load is reaching the limit and that there might be…
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