Server Room in Retro Fit Project
Server Room in Retro Fit Project
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Hi,
I'm designing a retrofit project for a small office. Total area is 5,400 sq.ft. The office is located in an old 2-story office building where there's only one AHU serving everything. The office I'm working on doesn't have access to the t-stat. The client would like to put a server room in the office, but we do not have the chance to put any extra cooling unit of any kind into the space. That mean we can only redirect the existing ductwork to do temperature control.
The server room, right now only has one server, one monitor (usually off), one small UPS, and several routers and modems. Therefore, the load, I'm guessing would be below ~3000W (~10000 btu/h).
What is the best strategy to deal with this server room, with the limitation I have?
Thanks.
Michael
I'm designing a retrofit project for a small office. Total area is 5,400 sq.ft. The office is located in an old 2-story office building where there's only one AHU serving everything. The office I'm working on doesn't have access to the t-stat. The client would like to put a server room in the office, but we do not have the chance to put any extra cooling unit of any kind into the space. That mean we can only redirect the existing ductwork to do temperature control.
The server room, right now only has one server, one monitor (usually off), one small UPS, and several routers and modems. Therefore, the load, I'm guessing would be below ~3000W (~10000 btu/h).
What is the best strategy to deal with this server room, with the limitation I have?
Thanks.
Michael





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Spot cooler seem to be a good idea. Could you give me some direction on this?
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I'm not a real engineer, but I play one on T.V.
A.J. Gest, York Int./JCI
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Also, size your system for possible server expansion. You never know when they might consider adding more equipments.
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The load on your computer room will be very different from the rest of the building. I believe that you are asking for trouble if you do anything other than a separate system for this room. Computer room owners can be very difficult to satisfy.
---KenRad
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I would also suggest that you would consider twin systems to ensure you have cooling should one system fall over. This will of course depend on how critical the server is to your client.