Questions tagged [physical-environment]

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with the physical environment of a system/deployment (e.g. dust, vibration, etc.) with no better, more specific tag.

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with the physical environment of a system/deployment. Examples include questions asking about "special" environments, like:

  • Substantial shock/vibration
  • High dust levels
  • High levels of EM interference
  • Extremely hot or cold temperatures, or wide temperature swings
  • Extremely humid areas

If a more specific tag exists, please use that instead.

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finding out heat generated due to applications

One of my server is heavily heated randomly.There are a couple of applications running on it. Is there some way I can track which application is generating more heat or consuming more CPU cycles.
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Dell PowerEdge 750

Can I use Dell PowerEdge 750 just 1U without a rack at home? Does it need cooling? I want to have a low end server for learning.
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What's the standard for server closet HVAC?

My organization is in the process of looking for new space in Manhattan. We have 25 employees and are looking at offices that are around 7,000 sq. ft. I don't anticipate us ever needing more than a single rack (which puts us squarely in the server…
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fedora halt - not sure why

Got a brand new server (IBM x3500) yesterday, installed Fedora 12 on it and thought we'd run some code to see how it performs. After around 7 hours of running, the system seems to have halted. The symptoms were - The fans were still on ie system…
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Must a patch panel be initially terminated in the rack?

If Cat6 Ethernet cables were terminated to a wall mounted patch panel, is there a method to move the patch panel to a rack (without having to cut them and reterminate them)? Is a patch panel coupled to the rack, so that you need to have your rack in…
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Can a Vertical PDU be mounted in an enclosed rack?

I purchased an enclosed 12U rack as well as Vertical (0U) PDU, but can't figure out how to mount it in the rack vertically. I assume I need to mount it on the side posts of the enclosure, since, if I mount it on the front posts, it blocks all the…
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VM image vs Phyical server image?

I often hear its easy to create the image of one VM and setup it another VM(even instance types are of different types) than creating the image on physical server. In fact one of the devops guy in the past told me image from physical server can not…
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Can a 69,85 cm hp ssf proliant sit in a 800mm rack.

Hi can a hp proliant that is specified to be 69,85 cm in length fit into a 800mm closed rack. No air holes at the front of the rack. But there is a cooling unit attached to the rack. There will be a cat 6 copper LAN cable at the back and c13…
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Are there HDDs which tolerate high ambient temperatures?

For certain reasons I won't go into, I have this small server machine which tends to overheat. I don't have exact temperature measurements, but let's say something like... ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED …
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Do all PowerEdge servers have thermal CPU protection?

Cant seem to find anyhting about it. I could test it tho, but a quicky for anyone having the answer. Do all PowerEdge servers have a upper CPU temp limit for shutting down? I'm currently playing with my old 2650, so will it turn off if it gets too…
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How can I figure out the physical location of my cloud server?

I'm renting a linux cloud server at a larger server provider somewhere in the US. I do not have physical access to the server - I have no idea where it is. Customer support wasn't able to pinpoint the exact datacenter that the server is located in.…
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understanding Openstack physical architecture

So, please correct me if I am wrong: I want to build my own cloud computing platform using openstack. I buy a rack server- https://www.serverstack.in/ I install say 1TB of Hard disk. 30 GB of RAM and the processor is already built in. I install…
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HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 has high fan speed after installing second CPU

Today I installed a second CPU in our HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8, and after booting the fans all went to 99.96%. This causes the server to make an enormous amount of noise. Could it damage the server? What could I do to fix this? I already removed all…
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VmWare image to HDD

!Hello, I am virtualizing a Windows 2003 Server in VMWare Server 2.0.2. My goal is to take the virtualized HDD and make it a physical one so that i can boot a real server from it and run it outside of a virtualized environment. I know of this answer…
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Replacing a loud fan in a 1RU server

I just bought a firewall that is very loud. The biggest problem is the two fans in the back (2 x Sunon 40mm fans) running at full speed. The firewall is 1RU with pfSense installed on it.The CPU is a Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ with a heat sink on top. The air…
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