Sunday, April 29, 2018

networking - Cable management and Rack design

I'm new here, and looking for some suggestions on how to design my rack. I have a chance to tidy up my server room and got a green light on server downtime for 24 hours this weekend. Below is my inventory.





  1. 2x 48U compaq racks (no provision for adding vertical managers
    what so ever)

  2. 35x 2U servers

  3. 4x 1U servers

  4. 2x 48port cisco 1G ethernet switch (3750)

  5. 1x Cisco 1941w router

  6. 1x Juniper 40 port 10G switch (ex4500)




How can I wisely position them in the racks so that any cabling after wrapping them with zip ties looks neat. And what should I start off with? Wwitches and network cables first and then mounting servers and connect those cables?
And when I Googled I saw some people positioning the switches on the back of the rack. Is this OK?

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