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What NOT to do in your server room

Leave unused cables in-place.  Do not use cable management.  Leave no cable unlabeled.

 

Use cables of appropriate length (this is a SCSI cable!):

 

Plug your most critical servers and SAN into a small stand-alone UPS instead of the large, redundant, UPS battery backup:

 

Keep old and dead equipment in the rack:

 

Use the aisle in front of your server racks for old PC storage:

 

Run cables through unusual pathways that require un-racking servers to move a cable:

 

Stack equipment back-to-back and resting on top of each other:

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What NOT to do in your server room
Authored by: taxpayer on Thursday, November 05 2009 @ 01:51 PM UTC

Kudos to the Pinellas County Tax Collector IT staff for allowing you to photograph their facilities.

What NOT to do in your server room
Authored by: Dan Stoner on Thursday, November 05 2009 @ 08:30 PM UTC

Ha!  There must be many server rooms that look like this... but no, this is not in Pinellas County.  My server room does not look like this anymore... the "after" pictures will show up one of these days.

What NOT to do in your server room
Authored by: cosplay on Monday, July 26 2010 @ 03:36 AM UTC

In theory getting the foot inspected by a trained medical practitioner would determine this. I also read somewhere that moving the toes in the above fashion (e.g. pulling them apart or wedging them with cotton balls) would INCREASE the pain on a stress fracture... but I doubt there are universal rules on all this and it depends where the fracture is actually located. I have read about people getting X-rays that do not show stress fracture and then having to get an MRI.

What NOT to do in your server room
Authored by: cosplay on Monday, July 26 2010 @ 03:38 AM UTC

In theory getting the foot inspected by a trained medical practitioner would determine this. I also read somewhere that moving the toes in the above fashion (e.g. pulling them apart or wedging them with cotton balls) would INCREASE the pain on a stress fracture... but I doubt there are universal rules on all this and it depends where the fracture is actually located. I have read about people getting X-rays that do not show stress fracture and then having to get an MRI.