Server Room Hint, Tips, and Tricks

This can be a very detailed talk, or a very high-level view, expanding what people seem to be interested in.

So here are my high-level topics - let me know by direct e-mail (bkmathesonvanlug@gmail.com) if you have any thoughts on topics to include, or any questions you'd like me to address or focus on. Let me know what you want to hear, or if you've got something to add, I'm in.

This will tend to be a practical talk, about what you might expect to encounter.

Much of what I'll be talking about can apply to the home user with 3 or 4 PC's, or a LAN with 4000 PC of which 200 are servers (development environment)

Here are the main topics I had in mind.

Planning

• Short term

• Long term planning.

Physical layout

• The room(s)

• Air conditioning - keeping your cool some rules and some green tips.

• Power - how much is too much? - UPS and / or Generator /

Security

• Physical

• Data - Specifically, we'll be hearing from Iain Kyte shortly on this, so not too much.

• Access Control

Operating Systems

• Keeping Things up to date

• Keeping up with hardware needs

Administration

• Backup

• Offsite colocation

• Getting back up

Some odd topics

• Telephony

• Security and PMI etc.

• Vacation / hit by a bus, etc.

• Fire Laws

• Social Engineering.

• It's ALL about the money!

So let's hear from you. What have i missed, or what do you want the deep details on. Speak up and thanks . Hope to see you out for this.