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Cable Management Policy
My company has 1 42U server rack which is about 1/3 full of equipment. Things have been added a bit at a time, sometimes in quite a hurry. And now the back of the rack is a scary mess of cables.
I'm looking to purchase a rack/enclosure for some servers. As this is my first time shopping for this type of equipment, I need to know what to look for.
I'll share some back story in case anyone finds it helpful, but really generic answers for anyone who is shopping for rack equipment is helpful.
Where I'm at we used to have mainly tower servers...
While cleaning up the office today we ran across two odd looking cables still in bags. On one end is a female DB 9 connector and the other end is a 3.5mm plug with 4 contact points.
Cisco this week is expanding its data center product portfolio with a new switch, extensions to existing ones, and enhancements to its servers and software.
Given a lot of the users on here have vast experience, what is the best way to label individual cables for equipment mounted in a rack?
I was thinking something like:
Port Number of Switch | U-Number | Server Interface Number (such as Rc1-InterfaceID) on btoh ends of the cable but wanted to see what more experienced folks were using.
What would be an ideal setup for these requirements: -- can read and write data from both data center -- if either data center is lost, the other can take over
The options I can think of : -- say if we have 6 servers, put 3 in one data center, the other 3 at the other center, set up the six servers as one cluster, is latency (nodes exchanging info, internal replication within the cluster) an issu
The ability of your data center fabric to support millions of servers with low cost and power may not be due to advances from your major switch vendor, or to standards they may embrace.
The data center is a mess. They consist of old physical networks, endless snarls of cables and storage boxes the size of refrigerators that stand in contrast to the comparable elegant world of the web. We love the web.
Cisco this week rolled out a bevy of data center products ranging from servers to switches to SANs, all designed to further broaden the company’s reach beyond networking and into IT infrastructure.
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