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RE: DATACENTER: furniture
IMHO,
For the machine room;
Other than good racks, there shouldn't be much else in there. We have ONE console desk, a few bookshelves, and three good office chairs. Along one wall we have a staging/work/assembly area, no chairs. Everyone operates from adjacent office space. If they don't have a place to sit then they find a reason to not be there any more than they have to. The less floor-traffic you have in there, the better off you are.
For the SysAdmins we have the standard office cube with GOOD chairs on anti-static tile flooring. We are also experimenting with ion generators. Colorado Springs has a LOT of static electricity problems. We are also looking into Faraday caging the machine room and grounding spikes all the way down to the water-table (lightning strikes, we lost a mess of equipment last year. A near lightning hit is only marginally better than a direct strike).
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[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Josh Moormann
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 3:18 PM
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Subject: DATACENTER: furniture
Graci on the humidity thread... did it finish?
Sean. do you have some pointers to the IBM and BellCore documentation you
mention?
What about furniture. When designing a NOC/DataCenter what are people
using? I've seen products offered from Wrightline. Are they they best, are
their others I should look at? What about test lab designs? In the
previous thread I saw some discussion on flooring issues. Is there anything
else?
JM
Network Admin
WFU