March 27, 2006
Server Cabinet
With the abandoning of the 41 building the LAN servers that were there needed to be moved to the 81 building. When we killed the old training center I had them ship the server cabinet to the 81 building, just for this move. Since I had plenty of lead time I could do it right. For me, right involves having a small desk so anyone coming to work on the server can set up their laptop and access a telephone.
Note: I only provide upto the LAN jack. The cable and connections to the server were done by the server person. I may clean it up later when I straighten all of the other cables.
Previously we simply ran individual LAN drops to the cabinet. Which was cool when a server was seven inches tall and only required one LAN connection. These new servers, AKA Pizza Boxes, are only one rack unit high and take three LAN connections (don't ask me why, I only provide the space and connectivity.) In the 41 building the server rack was next to the LAN rack and we just ran patch cables direct to the switches. At the training center I ran four quad-4 cables terminated on four position Panduit surface mount jacks. Both were ugly. Now that I had the chance to do it my way I mounted a 24 position jackfield at the upper rear of the server cabinet cabled to a matching jackfield in the switch rack.
Posted by Paladin at March 27, 2006 07:49 PM