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hudson_IT
Hi Everyone,
I'm new to this site, but have a rather urgent question. I work as an IT Architect and as such I have a responsibility for our Data Centers.
Our Data Center is fed by 3-phase power and it has come to my attention that our racks may be incorrectly wired. We feed two blocks of power into each of our server racks to provide resiliant power to the servers. However it seems that the power blocks are on different phases within a single rack i.e. Rack 1 has power feeds from L1 and L2, Rack 2 L2 & L3 etc...
The question is, is this safe, bad practice or even legal?
I have taken advice from two electricians, one said that ideally we should have each row of server racks on one phase each, but the best we could do it at least put only one phase in each rack and place a Yellow Danger 415v sticker on the from, with details of how the connections are made and do not connect to adjacent rack.
However the other electrician, said that we only had to put the Yellow stickers ion each rack and do nothing more.
Obviously one solution costs £1000's and the other around £50 in stickers.
Can someone please advise what is the correct thing to do, obviously I do not wish to be putting people's health at risk.
Many thanks in advance.
Mark
I'm new to this site, but have a rather urgent question. I work as an IT Architect and as such I have a responsibility for our Data Centers.
Our Data Center is fed by 3-phase power and it has come to my attention that our racks may be incorrectly wired. We feed two blocks of power into each of our server racks to provide resiliant power to the servers. However it seems that the power blocks are on different phases within a single rack i.e. Rack 1 has power feeds from L1 and L2, Rack 2 L2 & L3 etc...
The question is, is this safe, bad practice or even legal?
I have taken advice from two electricians, one said that ideally we should have each row of server racks on one phase each, but the best we could do it at least put only one phase in each rack and place a Yellow Danger 415v sticker on the from, with details of how the connections are made and do not connect to adjacent rack.
However the other electrician, said that we only had to put the Yellow stickers ion each rack and do nothing more.
Obviously one solution costs £1000's and the other around £50 in stickers.
Can someone please advise what is the correct thing to do, obviously I do not wish to be putting people's health at risk.
Many thanks in advance.
Mark