physical security in server farms

Mel Wilson mwilson-4YeSL8/OYKRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 20 19:31:17 UTC 2010


On 10-12-20 02:23 PM, Dave Cramer wrote:
> The company I work for can RFID a server. We can put the chip inside
> the server and read it from the outside. Can anyone see a rational
> benefit to doing this other than physical security such as being able
> to tell that someone is walking out the door with a server ?

If copper thieves stole all your cables, then cable robots could go 
through and rewire everything, knowing, at each location, which server 
they were dealing with.

If an earthquake shuffled your datacenter, you'd be able to put all 
the servers back at the right places on the new shelves.

	Mel.
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