Nudgee College needed to move their computer room because the building it was in was to be refurnished and partially demolished. We were more than happy to take on the task. Here’s the low down on what was involved.

Nudgee Computer Room Move

We had to withdraw the existing fibre plant from the old room

The old room

The old room

The new room under construction (one week late)

On the power side of the building with the cable tray on the ceiling

While we working, Mice were busy elsewhere. The wrong FOBOT cover was used by previous contractors

Racks being delivered

New room presented to us bare although this picture shows we had roughed in a few components

Preparing the 3 phase power

Removing and re-installing doors was required to get the racks in

Fibre works start so that we can move servers in as a 2 part process

Power to the racks now and more fibre.

Running fibre to other parts of the school was sometimes tricky due to poor workmanship of other contractors. For example, an icecream container holding back water from getting in. We had to properly route the fibre in and seal up the hole behind this. The pipe work was full of water just behind this.

Building power board done!

Shutting down the servers just before the move from the old computer room. The following day the building it was in was going to be demolished. We should have done this 10 days ago.

About to shut down the core switch

Installing equipment into the new racks

Comms Cabinets

Server Cabinets

Copper and Fibre interconnect done. 48xCat6A

Doors on and UPS connected

Emerson 20 KVA UPS. Full load for 15 Minutes. 5KW for 45 Min. Includes equipment and one 8KW AC system. Bypass switch for isolation and UPS Testing. Each Cabinet is fed with separately fused 15A feed from normal mains power and UPS power. The Fuse has ELD.

Finished!