Patent ID: 8620604

Claim:
A method for generating a composite vibration profile in a frequency range for a computer system, the method comprising: measuring a vibration spectrum in the frequency range for a test computer system in each configuration in a set of configurations, wherein each configuration in the set of configurations includes a permutation of a location of the test computer system in slots in a set of slots in a computer system rack and a location of at least one other computer system in the slots in the set of slots in the computer system rack, wherein measuring the vibration spectrum comprises measuring the vibration spectrum along each vibration axis in a set of vibration axes, wherein the set of vibration axes comprises one or more of up to three orthogonal linear vibration axes and up to three orthogonal rotational vibration axes; using a processor to generate the composite vibration profile for the computer system based on the measured vibration spectra; and vibrating the computer system rack at a set of frequencies in the frequency range by sweeping through the frequency range one time for each vibration axis in the set of vibration axes, wherein vibrating the rack comprises, for each frequency in the set of frequencies, determining an amplitude for a vibration for the rack at the frequency based on the composite vibration profile.