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So what are your functions in your rack? Mine for instance has a "common" area these are my nucs for consoles and networking management etc, then I split my rack into testing for perf tests, side by sides, and I have another area sectioned off for learning labs All are network separated via vlans and the common areas access everything, I can also upscale or downscale from one to the other quickly

Have you defined that for your self yet?

Haven't even thought about it yet beyond the Wifi right now. 😀. Need to redo it all so good thing we have this channel to discuss this. This rack is going to have the 4 shelves for "prod" and then rails for switches and USG later at the top. Dual railed UPSs on the bottom. Above those will be all the enterprise rack ready stuff for testing with which will be the "lab" VLAN. AV stuff will be its own rack when I'm ready to tackle that stuff (probably next year).

How often will you be unloading loan gear from the big guys to load new loaners

No idea yet. Right now I have nothing and it's all up to what my employer has at hand and I can borrow for my articles

Ok I ask only because if it's around the knee to waist high levels it makes it sooo much easier on the back

More perm stuff can go higher

I also use my shelves as section indicators

Nice thank you! That's good insight! I'm planning on loading the heavy stuff toward bottom. That's a great idea on the shelves. I was at the HP Moonshot lab last week and they gave me a great idea for color changing LEDs around the door for alerting purposes. Another thing I have to figure out. Maybe even run them around the shelves to differentiate sections by color

Actually I use octoblu fornthat as it changes my blinks

But then again I work for Citrix it makes sense to do that

Nice!

When you're ready I can send you the blueprint I have for doing it

It's not hard to understand and setup

Awesome, thank you!

How you cable managing?

Worse part of a ever changing rack

I bought vertical finger channel deals with the rack. Velcro ties and color coded patch cables is the plan. Also bought metered vertical PDUs so hopefully that helps keep it neat

Only advice I have is make it easy to undo

Broken cable, adding them etc all undo the nice velcros etc to redo the velcros

Make that part easy

Balance between sexy neat and functionally accessible

And label the hell out of everything

@User shop label maker

That's a great point. I was thinking 2 big umbilicals (one for network and one for PoE cams) but now thinking to umbilical them by section. Thank you

I bought a new label maker too. Comes tomorrow. The little dymo I have is not cut out to label cables

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There it goes