>From a datacenter ROI and economics, cooling, HVAC perspective that might just be the best colo customer ever. As long as they're paying full price for the cabinet and nothing is *dangerous* about how they've hung the 2U server vertically, using up all that space for just one thing has to be a lot better than a customer that makes full and efficient use of space and all the amperage allotted to them.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:38 AM t...@pelican.org <t...@pelican.org> wrote: > On Thursday, 18 February, 2021 16:23, "Seth Mattinen" <se...@rollernet.us> > said: > > > I had a customer that tried to stack their servers - no rails except the > > bottom most one - using 2x4's between each server. Up until then I > > hadn't imagined anyone would want to fill their cabinet with wood, so I > > made a rule to ban wood and anything tangentially related (cardboard, > > paper, plastic, etc.). Easier to just ban all things. Fire reasons too > > but mainly I thought a cabinet full of wood was too stupid to allow. > > On the "stupid racking" front, I give you most of a rack dedicated to a > single server. Not all that high a server, maybe 2U or so, but *way* too > deep for the rack, so it had been installed vertically. By looping some > fairly hefty chain through the handles on either side of the front of the > chassis, and then bolting the four chain ends to the four rack posts. I > wish I'd kept pictures of that one. Not flammable, but a serious WTF > moment. > > Cheers, > Tim. > > >
