[tech] Half Height Rack

[David Adam]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Bob Adamson wrote:
> [MRD] has organised for us to acquire a half-height, full depth rack from the
> ?Motorola? building. This will allow us to rack mount some of the newer
> servers such as maaxen. To put this in, we need to lose one of the racks in
> the machine room. This is your invitation to argue about it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "full-depth". Are the other racks in the 
server room not full depth? I know we adjusted the rails on the one 
closest to the door so that it would fit the ex-FSI servers properly, but 
the other rack should still have the normal depth.

> My personal opinion is that we should remove the right hand (full height)
> rack, and put the new one in its place. This would allow us to use the window
> above it for a second in-window aircon, instead of buying an overly expensive
> dual hose portable. Also, just for the record, we use less than half of the
> available rack space in the old full height rack, and there are no machines in
> the middle rack that are actually used.

That sounds like a good idea. Alternatively we could move the terminals 
onto the bench and put the half-height rack next to the window if we 
wanted to keep both full-height racks - but, as you say, we already have 
lots of unused space.

[DAA]