Standard Core Room Temp

[Wyndru]

We have conflicting numbers coming from 2 different vendors setting up our cooling for our room that will host the core and our app servers.

We have an apc in spot cooling solution in a room that is hardly handling the area it's in, the unit is below:

It's 1 rack, full of blades, anyone know the The APC StruxureWare InRow SC, and should it control a whole rack of servers?

Without an additional ac unit we hit 90 degrees ambient in the room.

One consultant says it ok, another says anything above 70 is bad (ambient temp)

 

[theevilsharpie]

90 degrees is too high. Although most modern equipment will operate at that temperature without any problems, a failure of your cooler will give you very little time to resolve the situation before your equipment starts shutting down or malfunctioning.

70 degrees is okay, and is preferably to 90 degrees if those are your only two choices. However, 70 degrees is "too cold" in that you're cooling your equipment more than necessary and wasting electricity in the process.

I usually try to keep my equipment rooms around 75-80 degrees.

 

[Compman55]

The 75-80 figure sounds good.

This is the cooling temp installing contractors are requesting.

A friend of mine had worked in a makeshift server area over in iraq and it hit in the mid 90's each and every day. No problems but of course not ideal. I do not have further details of what it was used for or what happend if the duct free cooling unit failed.