0U side mounted PDUs to start. APC racks and their PDUs are awesome. We then ordered 2ft cables in black and 1ft in white, that gives us enough slack to cable in both of the HP server power supplies ...

How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...

If your bare metal doesn’t need a metal mount, why pay for it?

Most of the Ethernet uses 10GBASE-T and Cat6 cabling and connectors, with some interconnects use fiber optical cable and LC connectors. Unsurprisingly, as this setup grew and grew, [spooky] had to ...

I recently completed a server hardware refresh in my environment and made the decision to switch to rack mount hardware. Even though I am no stranger to rack mount hardware, I have never run rack ...