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Re: Famous operational issues
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:23:27 -0800
On 2/18/21 1:07 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
On that note, I'd be very interested in hearing stories of actual incidents that are the cause of why cardboard boxes are banned in many facilities, due to loose particulate matter getting into the air and setting off very sensitive fire detection systems.
I had a customer that tried to stack their servers - no rails except the bottom most one - using 2x4's between each server. Up until then I hadn't imagined anyone would want to fill their cabinet with wood, so I made a rule to ban wood and anything tangentially related (cardboard, paper, plastic, etc.). Easier to just ban all things. Fire reasons too but mainly I thought a cabinet full of wood was too stupid to allow.
The "no wood" rule has become a fun story to tell everyone who asks how that ended up being a rule. The wood customer turned out to be a complete a-hole anyway, wood was just the tip of the iceberg.
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- Re: Famous operational issues Sabri Berisha (Feb 19)
- Re: Famous operational issues Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 19)
- Re: Famous operational issues Mark Tinka (Feb 19)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jen Linkova (Feb 19)
- Re: Famous operational issues Andrey Kostin (Feb 19)
- Re: Famous operational issues Owen DeLong (Feb 22)
- Re: Famous operational issues tim () pelican org (Feb 22)
- Re: Famous operational issues Warren Kumari (Feb 22)
- Re: Famous operational issues Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 22)
- Re: Famous operational issues Justin Streiner (Feb 23)
- Re: Famous operational issues Seth Mattinen (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Erik Sundberg (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues tim () pelican org (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Alain Hebert (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Eric Kuhnke (Feb 20)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jörg Kost (Feb 20)
- Re: Famous operational issues Henry Yen (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues bzs (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Owen DeLong (Feb 19)