Physically locating the server

I've got a CentOS server somewhere in the building; I can login into it remotely and VNC, etc. Now I've got to physically move it, and for that I need to physically locate the machine among the lookalikes around the office.

What can I do remotely to make the machine visibly or audibly identify itself?

Use IPMI to trigger LEDs, increase fan RPMs or sound the beep/alarm. Take a look at the man page for ipmitool https://linux.die.net/man/1/ipmitool depending on the server you may be able to set the LEDs, LCD display, fan RPM offset(listen when nobody is in the office). Some other IPMI or BMC interfaces may allow you to sound the beep but this functionality is more platform specific.

a powerful workstation or server will sound like someone vacuuming with the fans turned up all the way.

EDIT: To use the Identifier lights as mentioned in comments, this will however require setting making sure that an appropriate IPMI interface is setup, there are several guides and tutorials available, and depending on the OEM there may be proprietary interfaces and management systems like Intel's Data Center Manager(http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/intel-dcm-product-detail.html). I have used this tutorial before but there are others https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Configuring_IPMI_under_Linux_using_ipmitool ipmitool -I <appropriate interface for system> -U<username> chassis identify force should force the ID to an on state, depending on the interface and configuration you may need to specify authentication type and other command line options.

If your server has a CD/DVD or similar drive, a simple solution is to run eject and look for the open tray. (Remember, just because the tray is open doesn't mean that you opened it; confirm a second time after you think you've found the server.) Failing that, Matt's answer to turn on an identifying LED or display a message on an LCD with ipmitool is the way to go.

You could also use traceroute to determine what router the server is connected to, and even play with the switch management interfaces to try to find the exact cable (or at least one end of it) on which the server is connected.