We pointed out this and got shouted down again. And did I mention that the power kill switch has no physical protection? It's not behind a glass panel or something similar like a fire alarm button is. They strongly disagree and refuse to do anything about it. So when the room is ready, we are allowed in to start using it and us techies point out to management and facilities that the proximity of the big red button and big green button is an accident waiting to happen. No, the big red button is at least nine inches away from it. It is activated by pressing a big red button.Ĭan you guess where they put the big red button? No, not next to the big green button, that would be stupid. It cuts the power to EVERYTHING in the server room. They had also decided to installed a master power kill switch for use if something awful happens.

Getting out is easy, there's a big green button next to the door. There's an access control pad by the door and we use our ID cards to gain entry. One with not enough power and the other with insufficient aircon.īut the real gem here was the door. Without talking to us they go ahead and build both rooms. And they are, shall we say, not that hot on communicating with the customer. Nice!įacilities management team are involved to actually put the fabric of the room together, Power, aircon, halon etc. In fact they decided to build two, on different sites, with a 1Gb link between them.

Our small server room is full and management decided that we needed a new one to cope with future growth.

Big red button that says do not push