Systems

If you remove machines from a self-managed server room - even temporarily - please tell computing support. It helps us to track what's going on, and plan accordingly.

Capacity in the self-managed server rooms is limited, and we monitor the overall usage.

If a machine is removed without telling us, we may reuse the space previously allocated to it.

Food and drink

Food and drink are not allowed in the School's server rooms.

Booking your visit

Any time you need to enter the rooms, our safety rules state that you MUST book a time slot for your visit. To do this, contact User Support to ask for your preferred time (and room!) and check that your visit doesn't conflict with anyone else's.

Your machine will likely be equipped with a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) (which might be referred to by the manufacturer as a 'Lights Out Management processor' (LOM), or a 'Dell Remote Access Controller' (DRAC), etc.) This allows remote system administration of the machine, a remote console via IPMI, and so on.

There's a dedicated subnet and VLAN for these devices. To use it, please contact support.

There are four network switches in room B.Z14, and one in room B.01, each providing 44 1000baseT ('Gigabit ethernet') ports. Ports on each of these switches can be configured onto any of the public or private VLANs available in the building. Each of these five switches has a 10Gbps uplink to the network core.

A port in one of the switches will be configured for your machine on installation. Switch ports are not interchangeable: you must not re-patch your machine to any other switch port. Please, never rearrange, add or remove any network connections.