This Is How Your Server Room Should Be!
Posted on 29 September 2008 by R. MAK.
A few days back I posted a story on worst server rooms. I think now it is time to share with you how a server room or data center should look like. I don’t know if these examples are practical or not but sure they look very beautiful. They surely reflect upon the personality of system administrators. This structured and neat cabling looks very professional. I would love to have a data center like this. I guess my hosting company sees this and follow to reduce the downtime.
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Just a FYI. Most of them are comms cabinets not server cabinets – very different beasts when it comes to installation. Plus, even the server cabinets aren’t correct – not a single one of them could be pulled out on their rails without having to be disconnected first. Also, pic 4, that power lead just dangling there is atrocious, that lead will fall out very easily, and then your cabinet cooling is gone.
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Thanks to your keen observation. Most of them are patch panels. I stand corrected.
But.. You cannot deny that they look really cool
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Very good example.
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It’s…so…beautiful
Damn, Did they run the cables first or move the boxes? What if you have to pull a wire? Do you just leave it there?
kudos to the admin tho
While they may look pretty they are still forgetting one key factor. There is no labeling to be found.
So when that bumbling idiot replaces a piece of hardware and just disconnects everything you have no clue where it goes.
All cables should have two labels on them. What they connect to, and where they are going. Saves so much time down the road.
Great shots. I have often wondered what these places look like. Thanks for the photos.
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…Love the feel
Oh WoW
I haven’t imagined this before
*Screams* Ahhhh, the Clean! It burns my eyes!!!
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pain in the ass is more like it. Try tracing a cable when you have to with 7 tie wraps every 2 feet…
I think my past server was set like that. Very clean and very lean.
One word. WOW
That’s the way the server room have to be, Nice setting..
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Amazing how pretty that stuff can look. Would be great to see some higher resolution pics.
That’s just the back of some patch panels. They all look like that, if a competent cabling contractor was used. Show us the front where the patch leads are, I bet it’s a lot messier…
I remember working for Siemens GMBH.
With no exceptions to the rules, all cabling had to be like this.
If both ends of the cables are not marked, you will have hell finding and replacing the cable.
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Wow, who knew zip ties were could be so beautiful
awesome!
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On dirait le serveur de NTK. C’est vraiment la classe !
Looks like perfection.
Replace all zip ties with Velcro and then we’re talking. I have to admit though, that makes the network I manage look like a disaster.
those guys deserve an award for excellent house keeping.
All NEW server racks look like this. Lets come back in 5 years when thre have been things pulled out and new things installed. When a cabinet is hooked up the first time it should always look this nice.
Nicely organised.
wow! You know how to zip tie cables your mother must be very proud
I have always done installs in this manner – It is the standard for competent contractors. Where it gets messy is when people want more installed after initial installation…
Good luck changing cable spots
Estimated time for single cable replacement: 72 hours.
Estimated time for new cable run: 3 days.
Amount of time spent trying to appease some anal retentive IT manager with excessive use of zip ties: priceless.
NO!!.. this is bad.. really bad.. it takes really long time to look for damaged cable.. and it took longer time to open the ties.. replace the cable and to re-tie the cable..
Stupid work.. actually
Artwork.
I actually used to do this on HP Cabinets with at least 14 DL360G5 or G6′s and one day had a bad cable on a customers cabinet!
Finding the cable wasn’t hard due to proper tagging on both ends, like someone said, where does it go to and what is it for is a must!
Also, you can’t pull out the server unless you unplugg it, so servicing on site is a no-no.
Looks beautiful but its such a waste at the end when you have to undo half of it to get but one damn cable. Although if isn’t marked, its no biggie, there’s tools for pinging a cable and finding it that was as well.
Now that is sleeek!
thank for this information, i could
understand the technology
Perfect!!
man its really cool, what else can i say…amazing! i am going to try em all in my cabinets but with my own creativity
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using zip-ties is a bad idea it doesn’t comply with telecom standards, people forget they sell management wracks
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This is a real server!
Some of those drive me crazy just looking at them. They look nice and all but all those zip ties are a pain in the a** if you ever have to trace out a cable or add a new one. Is it really necessary to put a tie every inch? I can make a rack look just fine without that many ties and it will be much easier to work with in the future.
c’mon guys I’m working as a IT engineer and we are doin better job then this Couple things: 1. this is new instalations and cabinet dressed like this are standard now 2. this cables are inside cabinet so after instalation and test they should be working for ages without touching them and seeing them often 3. work like this you can be eazy mest up by shi.. pached cable on another site of the panel and i’m telling you good paching is the key
The few server racks they show are tidy but in most enterprise environments most servers have at least three network cables and two power cables. One of the racks shows this but it has it’s switches mid rack. Looks to be a drop in rack for a remote site and they don’t have a large presense. Defective cables are a breeze to resolve. Cut the end near the closest tie or a bit beyond it if you want to hide it and run a new patch. I prefer velcro as adding a new patch is much easier. A proper cable manager on the side keeps future cabling clean and helps keep different sized servers from screwing up your plans.
I think I’ll buy one and mount my recording equipment (amplifiers, equalizers, cd,…) in it an put it under my desk.
while i agree that in the perfect world servers or networking equipment should be cabled neatly and labeled properly. In the real world this is an indicator of bad management (system admin with too much time for a simple task)
If you are running a business you are doing so to make money, while i understand that this ends ub being more efficient fore maintenance and cooling it eats too much time.
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