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Do you skip a rack unit between servers?

If your servers use front to back flow-through cooling, as most rack mounted servers do, leaving gaps can actually hurt cooling. You don’t want the cold air to have any way to get to the hot aisle except through the server itself. If you need to leave gaps (for power concerns, floor weight issues, etc) … Read more

I’ve inherited a rat’s nest of cabling. What now?

In no particular order here are some suggestions that have been helpful to me over the years- Can any of the equipment in those racks be eliminated, upgraded or consolidated? It’s hard to tell what’s there, but in my experience these kinds of messes tend to be aggravated by gear that should have been pulled … Read more