Show Us Your Racks

Five_Star · 21 May 2008 at 08:22

Our mini setup, taken on phone. The small UPS is for the switch gear and KVM. Its bigger brother is at the bottom of the rack.

Robdav · 25 May 2008 at 22:58

i'd love to show you all the racks at work, but we're not allowed cameras in our data centres

Sp00n · 28 May 2008 at 11:40

My old habitat, i miss it

Duke · 28 May 2008 at 18:34

We have about 10 or 12 cabs and the room has the same fire security that Gilly mentioned - better get out there quick if the alarms go off (air sucked out!) :eek:

commodore16 · 28 May 2008 at 21:16

I thought that the racks when I joined my company were bad, guess I never had a comparison like that before. That cabling is shocking!

Gilly · 29 May 2008 at 03:38

Albo said:
Gilly - You work for them too?

I am a Data Centre Devolper for them and have just finished an efficiency audit of the above Data Centre. Good to see there are no company names in the photo or you would be in trouble! It is very impressive and now very full too. Have you seen the new 2 we have been / are building? They're going to be even more impressive - true tier 4s.

No, not seen them but seen a couple of early design outlays. I only posted the pic I did because it was freely available online already

Sp00n · 30 May 2008 at 17:19

commodore16 said:
I thought that the racks when I joined my company were bad, guess I never had a comparison like that before. That cabling is shocking!

Wow you think thats bad? That is nothing compared to some of the stuff i've seen.

Stolly · 31 May 2008 at 21:21

Yeah some of the places i've done work in i'd say that is towards the better end of the scale !

volkan · 1 Jun 2008 at 00:23

Not my rack, but came across this :eek:

URL is: http://kevinremde.members.winisp.net/images/yellow_wall.jpg

Sp00n · 1 Jun 2008 at 13:18

'kin LOL

lewism · 1 Jun 2008 at 16:33

that is mental!

TrX · 2 Jun 2008 at 20:10

volkan said:
Not my rack, but came across this

URL is: http://kevinremde.members.winisp.net/images/yellow_wall.jpg

"Could you just re-patch AA91/2-12 to ...."
lulz

Stolly · 2 Jun 2008 at 20:46

volkan said:
Not my rack, but came across this

URL is: http://kevinremde.members.winisp.net/images/yellow_wall.jpg

Yeah thats more what i'm talking about. 2 guys in my last company were sold out for 2 days to re patch 3 cabs worth of patch panels, it was such a mess you couldn't see the panels, and when they took it all out it went up to their waists and they had trouble getting the door to the server room open.

Wizzkidy · 3 Jun 2008 at 00:21

Gilly said:
Stuff and Pic.

Yea Thurrock is good but STE10 is where its at

Gilly · 3 Jun 2008 at 00:44

Behave, Ste10 is rubbish. Might as well be in 04

Chief Wiggum · 3 Jun 2008 at 02:57

The current mix of gas for fire protection that we're using is Inergen - it seems to be the new 'standard'

INERGEN is a mixture of nitrogen, argon and carbon dioxide gases and has been specially developed to provide fire protection as a Halon 1301 replacement. INERGEN® extinguishes fire by reducing the oxygen level in a room to below 15%, the point at which most combustibles will no longer burn. Simultaneously the carbon dioxide in INERGEN® stimulates the uptake of oxygen by the human body, so protecting anyone who might be trapped in the fire area from the effects of the lowered oxygen levels.

Fully tested on humans

Wizzkidy · 3 Jun 2008 at 12:16

Gilly said:
Behave, Ste10 is rubbish. Might as well be in 04

granted 04 is poor. Well we are just waiting for STE10 to be finished!

Can't say its bad just watching our new 64 inch Samsung Plasma's

milkinc13 · 4 Jun 2008 at 20:35

volkan said:
Not my rack, but came across this

URL is: http://kevinremde.members.winisp.net/images/yellow_wall.jpg

wouldn't want to work there

Dist · 5 Jun 2008 at 02:11

could make a fortune tidying that place up with smaller cables, then selling the tons of copper from that nest of old cables for a fortune at current prices.

Crowze · 5 Jun 2008 at 08:36

Couple of pictures from where I used to work (Pipex Nottingham, formerly Host Europe). I'm sure they won't mind me posting these as a) I don't work there any more so they can't fire me

, and b) they closed down the data centre mid 2005.

First up is about half of our Cobalt RaQ systems:

And second some random servers - closest are our dev boxes and some co-located servers, further away are some of our older production servers.

These show about a quarter of the servers we had, something like 750 in total. Afraid I didn't get a picture of our network cab or UPS, both of which were pretty beefy (you can just see the edge of one UPS in the second photo).