Ha, When I was in school the network server room was a single 486/DX-33 running Novell Netware 2.11 with 15 workstations for students. This was cutting edge at the time and the faculty didn't understand it, however as a student I did and was allowed to "play around" in exchange for assisting with administration tasks from time to time. I had Supervisor equivalent rights , similar to root or Administrator on modern OSes.
I once saw a bunch of network switches and hubs on the roof in my school, but my school doesn’t really have servers but they do have servers in the city hall, but they share servers with other schools.
Speaking as someone who looks after a HPC facility at a UK university, if a video would cause an operational security issue then you are doing it *BADLY* wrong.
@@jamescollins6085 probably like "stop putting all the passwords on post it notes on the front of the servers" and "stop setting boxes in front of the server fan intakes" and "stop running random Ethernet cables from the patch panel through the doorway across the hall and taping it to the floor with duct tape for our main internet connection so you can put a WiFi router in the principal's office"
storage for students files along with faculty files and probably even some storage for the DVR's ontop of having backup image of school laptops and desktops some stuff woudl put a big workload on a single server its better to divide the load between servers
It is odd. Azure is a thing. My company supports a heap of UK schools and none of them have on site servers, our "server rooms" only contain switch gear in 2023. Everything is in the cloud.
@@ZonkedCompanion they will regret that if for some reason there is a internet outage either at the company end or microsoft's end as all that data cant be accessed if one point has a outage
@@dawn1berlitz 1gbps fail overs myfriend, all the sites are running vpns back to a data centre in Devon where the traffic gets filtered by the ISP. MS doesn't go down in all my years of experience, on rare occasions we have to restart a particularly troublesome print server VM in azure at one of the sites, but the DCs etc never skip a beat. In this day and age most schools use SIMs for management and that's usually in the cloud too so if a school looses all it's WANs it's practically a snow day anyway.
@@ZonkedCompanion Meanwhile german schools do not have the funding to switch to the cloud, and even if they did, data protection laws would not allow that. Don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.
Server consolidation could probably reduce that room to half its size and then moving noncritical server and the DVR's to cloud services and you might be able to squeeze down to a bathroom stall.🙃
@@AIC69420 This. No sane person moves DVRs for an organisation that deals with children to a "cloud" service (which at the end of the day is just somebody else's computer). That's just asking for a prison sentence and rightly so. Off site maybe, but then this might already be the off site location for somewhere else in the same school area.
