M247 Ltd Manchester Datacentre Build Blog

With the ‘move’ from London now finished everything is up and running. The datacentre is in the finishing stages with jobs such sorting and furnishing taking place. With the racks flat packed and brought from London we can also begin the process of building our 2nd pod which should be under demand shortly.

Today we had one of the major step forwards in intruder protection with the start of the installation of the windows bars. As you can see they are pretty well re-inforced. We have had a lot of electricians in working with the switch board and the power distribution unit. They’re currently glanding from the main board around the datacenter. We had an arrival of our wireless access points, we were the last delivery of the day! More deliverys today, quite importantly the generator will be arriving, the picture below shows the spot waiting for it.

Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures. We were not meant to be at the DC today but through circumstances ended up there any way and had the opportunity to take pics. Because of this they are taken with the phone cam and therefore not good quality.

The Window film decision was made for blackout vinyl and opaque white on upper rear of the building. This allows us to get a good combination of security, sun light and good looks. We also had the delivery of the 4.5 km Optic Fibre which will be pulled through over the next few days. The Paxman final decision was also reached so that our key areas are controlled electronically by card. The UPS system and batteries arrived also whilst we were there.

At the bottom of this page is a link to a webcam which has a live feed of the happenings in the Sever room at the DC.

The watchful eye

Progress today looks good. We picked up a change which needed to be made with the layout of the overhead racks which hopefully does not cause to much of a delay. Partitioning for the upstairs offices has begun with the big task of getting all the material upstairs. Jon also made further progress with testing the Cisco Routers.

Today the heavy duty floors started to go in and should be completed by end of the week. We also had some measuring up for inserting burglar guards as well as some more cabling was completed.

Picture wise not much has changed. More sockets have been wired up. The UPS room walls have been painted which is way more interesting then watching plaster dry. We finished laying the network cables upstairs for the offices, board room and break room. We also had the delivery of the Cisco Routers.

Today we started to put things together upstairs. Masking the layout of the partitions made it easier to visualize and make a few adjustments. We also placed a web cam downstairs to keep an eye on everything. By next week hopefully you will be able to view the webcam from this Blog!! Putting together some furniture and getting the heating working was also accomplished.

On visit to datacentre we see that progress is good. The floors have been lifted and are ready for the strengthened floor to go in, which are higher for better air flow. The walls downstairs are going in for the UPS room and the Fire Escape lobby. Trunking is being layed in the server room.