24. Maintenance and Environment
With the influx of desktop workstations and the move away from big-iron computing, it once appeared that the days of the central machine room (aka “data center”) might be numbered. Never fear! Over the last decade, those desktop systems have become increasingly dependent on a nucleus of central servers running operating systems such as Linux. As a result, herds of servers can now be found roaming those once-abandoned machine rooms.
It’s as important as ever to ensure a healthy, well-maintained environment for these servers. In fact, the power and air conditioning requirements of a rack of the latest 1U ...
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