Redoing Server Rack

[st3reo23]

very nice



[OneHourInvite2Locker]

That looks like Jesse from Breaking Bad...

[sinoperture]

Why bother at all? Have a bunch of people in Philippines, Singapore or India handle this stuff. There is no value add in this monkey work for a business.... just a drain on costs and resources.

[yotas312]

You guys are gods!!!!Cant wait to be able to do that kinda stuff after graduating from Nairobi University....you can only learn this during internships..

[adamsb33]

I emember doing this during our server consolidation, coffee tended to help me focus and stay up and made it a lot smoother.

[redblaze1981]

that was a nice way to put that system together. nice and clean

[Logo3801]

Nice job!!! impressive!

[jasonoldy69]

I guess when the door stops closing properly, you don't have a lot of choice

[oceantrolls73]

great job boys. I get the doors and side panels out of the way first. class A occupational hazard. the admins should have been shot in the head! how can an IT Head let that happen? blasphemy. will pass it onto my boys. I manage 4 data centers and i had this done to one of them after i took over. Real fun.

[krazykizza]

took your time didn't you?

[muffemod]

@krazykizza union job

[krazykizza]

@muffemod thought that soon after posting!

[Nacholism]

Nice Rack. ;)

[nowayride]

Gorgeous.

[G4334777]

If I drink Red Bull to give me wings, can I move like that? Great job guys, cabinet looks great.

[newtubetubetube]

Nicely done. It look way better now. Sometime i wish my office was larger so i get to justify that much equipment. There is something zen and satisfactory about cable management...

[Max1636]

Could somebody please answer this do all server racks have the vertical mounts at the front and back or do some just have it at the front?

[marblestech]

cable dance party!

[togeekandbeyond]

Worst. Song. Ever.

[ocdpfsas]

Will it blend?

[hcgarcia]

This job is well done, about the magnetic "cross-talk" it's bull, UTP cable, at least 5E is not vulnerable (at site voltages, 110 - 220V AC)

[peterotoule]

Two suggested tips for next time: pop the door hinges, and careful of the Plumber's Butt. ;)

[peterotoule]

Isn't it amazing how much work gets done after a keg of Red Bull?

I almost mistook this for a time-lapse video...

[SISTEMASA1]

>se la comieron

[MonkeyInDaCloset]

Beautiful mess of cables.

[mptrax]

AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING !!

Job and SONG !!!

[DrLsw]

couldve been done better but it looks 100x better that when they started

[ltowndj19]

nice job

[krazykizza]

That took you 2 hours? I could do it by myself in that time.

[ManOfMeans]

What about labeling?  Are you labeling the cables?

[snedie69er]

@ManOfMeans

All 300 of them!

The port on the switch should have a virtual label, so spending three days labelling is not needed.

[bushputz]

I'll bet the 3rd guy that kept popping in was their boss, asking, "When is my email going to be back up?"

[spannerbob]

Great... now the directors decide to move loads of people around and you need to swap cables around and repatch to different areas - without any downtime.

I did this in our head office patch room - and it looked great for about 6 months - then they had a huge reshuffle of the offices and it all went south!

The only way I've found of keeping on top of this problem is to restrict access to the patching rooms and once a year I choose a bank holiday weekend to repatch the whole rack.

[spannerbob]

Great... now the directors decide to move loads of people around and you need to swap cables around and repatch to different areas - without any downtime.

I did this in our head office patch room - and it looked great for about 6 months - then they had a huge reshuffle of the offices and it all went south!

The only way I've found of keeping on top of this problem is to restrict access to the patching rooms and once a year I choose a bank holiday weekend to repatch the whole rack.

[jejomar14344]

u need to remove the glass door,its easier. not that good. im not satisfy

[emachine110]

so much ethernet I am drooling

[MrCausePain]

I feel like the video goes well with the music

[cyberjackcyberjack]

do servers cope with me spuking on it, wile screaming "oh ya baby, take that bitch !" ?

[wellington89d]

That was awesome!

[kimosabesun]

Nice vid!!!!!

[noreplyism]

I didn't see you labelling the cables lol...

[mccaning]

what a mess, if I was the Head of IT I will get them to redo it, and use Cable Management

[MrMudaFuga]

Hey I think I've seen this before... oh that's right you ripped off the over video, which = pro status.  This = scrub status. Gay men are gay.

[Kiirjava]

Excellent cable management guys! Great re-patch. To add, cable management does have a fair hand in heat dispersion, as well as accessibility. However in this case, one could argue that the solid plexiglass sheet on the door would inhibit airflow...unless there is a draw fan on the top of the rack..

[FSXHD92]

that is just sad

[ChrizRockster]

Nice work guys - 100% behind you on this one. I would be exactly the same!

[bixiiinqq0]

lol sick and nice song :)

[wolfgoblin]

To be honest i don't really see the point.

I doubt this does much for cooling. If it's about accessibility, then tying all the cables together would actually makes things worse. If it's just about looking neat, then calling other people incompetent over it is a bit anal in my opinion.

Can someone who works with racks explain this to me?

[ChrizRockster]

@wolfgoblin.

Hi there - I am a 1-man IT Department at the company I work for. I maintain 15 Dell Rack Servers and a patch panel with over 250 connections.

Until you walk into a patch room to connect one cable, only to find the place trashed, you would be upset. Its easy to just throw cables everywhere, then heat builds up instead of having a good circulation of air around the rack.

Only I patch at our place. Its tidy and will stay that way. In a rush, patching is a breeze!

[hwy9nightkid]

try working on a rack that isn't properly organized, then get back to us..

it SUCKS

[SteveCrothers]

Huge heating issue, server racks exhaust out the back - which means when the exhaust collides with all those cables it's just going to be reflected around within the rack and some of it will be sucked back up in the front and heat the servers.

[shinji130]

@wolfgoblin If you incorporate a good system you can easily track a port and drop location without having to spend too much time tracing a cable.

[sam1983h]

nice job :-)

[alphaman1101]

That looks disgusting. hell. i do better than that

[ZappleZ]

wow. great job guys

[mmmmb0b]

...And 2 Months For The Rack To Look Like It Did At The Beginning Of The Video Once Again :]

[fagaf9]

Pls,name song ? :)))

<3

[vandeMeulenhof]

G-SPOTT - City Streets

[gradualness]

Cable management is hard to do at this speed!

[XxMEVANSxX]

lol reminds me of the servers i set up at my school oh and this is not my user name its my sons!

[xrackpro]

Very cool time lapse on the server rack project

[Gordon302]

Yeah but still, they really didn't do it the right way either. In any server rack, whether it's mostly servers, or probably in this case telco switches, ALL of the wiring, both power & data should be separated!! All of the data cables should be routed through ONE side of the rack, & all of the power cables through the other side. This not only eliminates "cross-talk" between wiring, but also lessons the chance for EMI, or Electrical Magnetic Interference. They get NO POINTS for appearance.

[guerillacity]

i learnt somat new 2day CHEERS

[nos676]

althought this is true, they get 10/10 for a kick-ass time lapse!

[sebanoltean]

I did not see any power cables in the video. probably they are routed trough the back side of the rack.

[eXisTa1987]

Luckily our power cables are not on the front of the rack but nicely routed at the back.

But you're right!

[SouthNJPC]

@eXisTa1987 Yea i watched it again to see any power cables.... love when people jump the gun and make silly comments.

[reesk92]

@Gordon302 your a bit of a ass arnt you so tell me this smart arse which is better cor cross calt the nice neat cables or spaghetti oh and i expect that when i go to your you tube page there will be a video waiting for me showing some awesome cabling

[Jaymn2589]

@Gordon302 I'm assuming its Cat5e or Cat6. The only type of crosstalk that comes into play is that kind of cable is within each cable itself. Only when you get into Cat6A (10gig ethernet) is Alien Crosstalk, cable to cable cross talk an issue, and even now Panduit and Systimax/Commscope have virtually eliminated Alien Cross talk in category cable since its not practical to separate each cable by itself. But about the EMI you are correct I've always kept 6inch separation from power as standard.

[TehMG]

Kind of like the mess I'm sorting out right now at my work. Cables are running all over the building everywhere and none of it has been labeled or documented, some cables are just dead ends, a complete disaster!

[heestenhats]

Goed song =)

[rhblakeman]

I'm guessing the incomps were there before the ones in this video. The video shows the way it SHOULD be done. Very nice, same way I get my work to look - birds should not be able to nest in the cables of a rack or backboard.

[ashleyjadey]

zo, die zijn goed met draadjes! Tijd voor een Big Mac! ;) Gr, InRu

[lighteelco]

ziet er veel beter uit zo.

[thejasper110]

much better :D