Data Center Remodel - Time Lapse

[evilfreethinker]

I can do it faster :D

kidding

It would be awesome to see a crew of 100 BS degree holding MCSE CCNA /P papered geeks build out an entire enterprise network in 48 hours from scratch. You just bang it out non-stop with lots of Red Bull hehe. And of course time lapse it. It would be a challenge.

[Thump45a]

@evilfreethinker Yes, but would it be functional? Too many CCNA's in one room might be a disaster! :)

[azurescens420]

Gay music.

[ScalversGadgets]

lots of work

[h4rl3y123]

No new ceiling tiles fitted?

[Thump45a]

There wasn't enough room to put them back in, plus we needed the additional air volume space for warm air return. It's a bit of a cramped space.

[Dill731]

WOW

[2Hamsterz]

Whats the music?

[Thump45a]

As seen in the credits at the end, Bomfunk MC's "Freestyler"

[Digalog]

freeestylaaa

rock da mikrofone

[pinkfloydeffect]

I JUST LOVE THIS VIDEO! Looks liek so much fun! Wheres all the cables coming from the rack units out of the room? You have got them hiden pretty well. What do you use them for a business?

[Thump45a]

There is a huge bundle of Cat5e, Coax and Fiber at the far end of the room that is just hard to see with the poor clarity in the YouTube version of this video. It is also hidden from this viewpoint by the HVAC ducting. I assure you there is quite a bit there :)

[pinkfloydeffect]

Thats awsome dude.

I would liek to take place in remodeling a room for servers (pretty much gutting it)

What do you use them for? Web hosting or file hosting?

[Thump45a]

It is a university data center, it runs a wide variety of app servers from web to email to print/file services, etc...

[windowshacker66]

I live right next to there.

[Digalog]

so you make all that noise down there

[5hpir3]

u guys are really fast, 5min for complete datacenter :D

i know how much work it is to build up all these things...

nice video, i like time lapses :o

[computec1993]

i wish i had only one of these Dell PowerEdge Servers....

What about transferring the data from the old servers?

[Thump45a]

The implementation of the VMWare Enterprise cluster required the addition of a SAN to our data center and our offsite back-up data center. A lot of our data from the machines consolidated to virtual machines ended up being stored on the SAN.

[krazykizza]

It took almost 3months for a revamp?! omg - My school did its two whole racks in about a week.

[Thump45a]

Well there obviously wasn't 3 months of physical work, but we did go from 26 physical production servers to a VMWare Enterprise cluster during this also which took some time, that and purchasing and vendor scheduling etc...

It probably would have been easier to just purchase everything in advance, shut down for a week and schedule all the vendors and transition during that time, but we had to stay live through he whole thing and that certainly took a lot more calendar days.

[krazykizza]

True.

[BrentWilliamson]

uhhh...guys did someone forget the roof?

[snomimons]

@BrentWilliamson A false ceiling would act as insulation and you need that room as cold as possible.

[EllipticalMobile]

That is alot of work. We have something that would make a move like this effortless and your down time would have been your drive time.

[allclear241]

Cool, Time lapse is soo cool. Nice work!

[drv1234]

Ah, the Axis IP camera... I can tell :o)

Nice

[starlite528]

Timelapse video's like this win. I have a couple.

[mafauri]

Good work guys

But I was wandering which kind of environment control system is used in this room?

Did you used cooling from the central unites or what?

Sth else I didn't see the mechanical infrastructure of the Fire fighting system

( e.g: FM200)

[Thump45a]

Primary cooling is provided by a 5ton package unit on the roof (that is what the ductwork is for), backup cooling is from a 2ton unit through the far wall (hard to see the vents in the video).

Fire upgrades were not installed during the remodel. It goes in next month actually. Sprinklers are being replaced with a dry-pipe pre-action sprinkler system and a StatX dry system is being installed.

[mafauri]

this mean you are using conventional type cooling??

by otherwords not computer type like the one we use e.g: libert or stulz computer type AC

regarding fire protection system we use FM200

[Thump45a]

Correct, it is conventional cooling unfortunately. We hope to upgrade to a liebert unit in the future.

[SirtonShow]

What the song used in this amazing video...?

[0zv]

Bomfunk MCs - Freestyler (Folks be dodging your question actin like you is total fuckin clown shoes cause they smug hoes.)

[tamaznex]

wowowowowowowow

[ironmikesh]

BeAUTiful...I especially like the parts around 4:32 and 4:41 where "the guy in the yellow shirt" stands back to admire and think as he twirls his beard with his fingers...Looks GREAT!