Cmd.exe Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 I’ve just been asked an interesting question by our site manager: Do I think our office/server room should have additional fire safety/precaution type stuff aside from our CO2 extinguisher? I said that as I wasn’t a fire officer I didn’t know. But it got me thinking though, I always assumed that if there was a fire – everything would burn to ashes, we’d take our backups (stored in another location) buy some new servers with the insurance and start over. What could they really put in? sprinklers wouldn’t really help the equipment, and CO2 pumped into the room would freeze us and/or suffocate us. Does anyone else have fancy fire safety/precaution equipment in their server room?
ICT_GUY Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Halon. Just make sure you can get out without breathing. Or how about a bunker in the school grounds, like the ones they used to sell during the Cuban missile crisis.
Geoff Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Yep Halon dump gets my vote. Especially for practical joke purposes.
Geoff Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 (edited) Yeah, halon is discontinued. http://www.reliablefire.com/halon/halon.html Edited March 13, 2008 by Geoff
saundersmatt Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Our server room is protected by an Argonite suppression system which I have been assured won't kill us if we're trapped in there when it goes off. I'm really not inclined to test that theory though! Matt
pmassingham Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 The old cleaner's cupboard that houses the 5 servers/14 VM servers has a black fire extinguisher. I would have to use my jacket as a fire blanket if that failed to work. I am hopeful that the thick layer of dust would stop a fire from spreading. We do have face masks though, so we don't inhale the dust!
TechMonkey Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 We have an extra smoke alarm in the server room attached to the main fire alarm. We also have the main water main running through the room so if all else fails we could release that.
torledo Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 I’ve just been asked an interesting question by our site manager: Do I think our office/server room should have additional fire safety/precaution type stuff aside from our CO2 extinguisher? I said that as I wasn’t a fire officer I didn’t know. But it got me thinking though, I always assumed that if there was a fire – everything would burn to ashes, we’d take our backups (stored in another location) buy some new servers with the insurance and start over. What could they really put in? sprinklers wouldn’t really help the equipment, and CO2 pumped into the room would freeze us and/or suffocate us. Does anyone else have fancy fire safety/precaution equipment in their server room? any kind of gas surpression system i would imagine would be too expensive to retrofit.....in light of that, backup to tape or to seperate building and have insurance for you're server room kit. Failing that, keep a spare of everything - gives new meaning to the term 'mirroring'......
localzuk Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 We have a fire proof wall around our room, and a fire door. No emergency lighting, no fire detector, no fire extinguisher... And I don't think the fire officer in today noticed.
Friez Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 200 cubed metres of solid concrete, should seal it off quite well from the rest of the world at the least. Works for nuclear meltdowns anyway!
pmassingham Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Trouble is - all of these comments are serious!!!!
elsiegee40 Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Cost wise, you'd be better off having backups in a safe place rather than trying to keep the server room standing when the rest of the school has burned down!
K.C.Leblanc Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Ours is in a tipee in the middle of the field. Causes no end of trouble with the fibre when they have the grass cut.
bizzel Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 We also have the main water main running through the room... In that case, fire would be the least of my worries!
localzuk Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 In that case, fire would be the least of my worries! We have 2 pipes containing the main routes to our school heating in ours. This is why I installed a moisture sensor and text messaging system. Although, it takes me 8 minutes to get from home to school so by the time I got there, half the room would be flooded
Geoff Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Although, it takes me 8 minutes to get from home to school so by the time I got there, half the room would be flooded Put the expensive/critical servers at the top of the rack then?
john Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 Surely though if the pipes are above the ceiling or at ceiling height then they may splurge all over the top servers and kill them off first and the bottom ones will drown and so the middle i guess is the happy medium?
sidewinder Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 We dont have anything in ours, no fire door, no extinguisher, no system fitted. If there was a fire it would burn as quickly as anything else Backups are right over the other side of the site in a fire safe though, so it would have have to be the mother of all fires to destroy both locations
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