CableManagement
Cable Management 101
by Jesse on Mar.02, 2009, under CableManagement
This is how NOT to run fibre-cables
Just FYI – it’s ok to run fibre cables under the floor.
It is, however, advised that you have a raised floor to run them under.
This is *NOT* ok. (Yes, that is an APC Battery Backup that the cables run directly under….)
Nuff said.
A Cabling Before/After:
by Jesse on Sep.04, 2008, under Best Practices, CableManagement
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a little insane when it comes to cabling.
Keeping cable management sane makes management, and troubleshooting easier.
The trouble of course is that usually, when you’re called in to do a clean-up, you’re not given the luxury of taking the datacenter off-line to do the work. Most of this was done online, though I had to shut-down a couple of single-attached linux servers in order to move their cables.
You don’t get the opportunity to truly clean up the environment when you can’t disconnect everything,however you can at least get the mess out of the way.
Before
After
Hidden cabling to the right of the switch