Reduce excessive fan noise of Proliants in office environment

[Andy Jones_2]

Hi
Is there any easy way of reducing fan noise of proliants 5500R-Xeon, 1600R-P3 & 1850R-P2 currently situated in an office enivornment.
For example, reducing the speed of fans using voltage regulation, acoustic materials etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Andy.

[Roy Main]

Are you running the Insight Manager agents? If you run the agents, they will throttle the fans down to the minimum setting need to cool the system.

[Mike Ludwig]

Build a datacenter. You could put duct-tape over the air vents but that would likley be "too quiet". :) Not sure if those old servers suport that ability for the agents to slow the fans. In my experience with puting servers in office areas unless you're in a pretty open area they tend to heat up your office a bit so I'm not so sure they would slow the fans down even if they could. You could try telling people that it's not the servers it's a white noise generator to render the goverment and corporate compeditors bugs usless.