Show Us Your Racks

Burnsy2023 · 9 Jun 2013 at 22:09

I would take pics of the racks at my current place of work, but it's restricted. That and the cabling makes the baby Jesus cry.

Somnambulist · 9 Jun 2013 at 22:54

GhostlyPea said:
Floor 9 & 10 here, although were migrating out of 9 after only being in there a year ¬_¬"

- GP

We have a big hall on 9.

Things I find lol there:
The lifts.
Everyone perving at a certain receptionist (you know which one) because 99.9% of the building is male and seeing a woman is like water in the desert there.
The guy who does the fire alarm testing announcements and always sounds like he's out of breath just reading a script.
Really fat people who trip the weight limit for the airlock doors at the front because it thinks two people are trying to get in at once.

I'll think of more later.

RSR · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:42

GhostlyPea said:
Floor 9 & 10 here, although were migrating out of 9 after only being in there a year ¬_¬"

- GP

Is the said company also on the 6th?

Somnambulist said:
We have a big hall on 9.

Things I find lol there:
The lifts.
Everyone perving at a certain receptionist (you know which one) because 99.9% of the building is male and seeing a woman is like water in the desert there.
The guy who does the fire alarm testing announcements and always sounds like he's out of breath just reading a script.
Really fat people who trip the weight limit for the airlock doors at the front because it thinks two people are trying to get in at once.

I'll think of more later.

Is the said company a ISP/MSP, with a office very close by?

GhostlyPea · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:58

Might be yes

- GP

Somnambulist · 10 Jun 2013 at 21:44

[RXP]Andy;24424907 said:
Is the said company also on the 6th?

Is the said company a ISP/MSP, with a office very close by?

FJS, got a big DC over the river as well which is even more of a soul-destroying experience to sit around in (got to go do my annual fire training there soon, sigh).

volkan · 11 Jun 2013 at 14:03

Somnambulist said:
We have a big hall on 9.

Things I find lol there:
The lifts.
Everyone perving at a certain receptionist (you know which one) because 99.9% of the building is male and seeing a woman is like water in the desert there.
The guy who does the fire alarm testing announcements and always sounds like he's out of breath just reading a script.
Really fat people who trip the weight limit for the airlock doors at the front because it thinks two people are trying to get in at once.

I'll think of more later.

We are based on the 10th floor and have a rather attractive female engineer who often gets asked if she is lost! The looks she gets when entering and leaving are quite amusing.

pdw8 · 12 Jun 2013 at 22:01

GS has to be the worst place for access and cabling. We have racks in the MMRs in both GS1 and GS2 and cross connects are 3x more than Telecity, Telehouse etc. Access is a joke, I'm on the permanent access list and have to send a form which security and then cablemanger have to approve. It then takes 15 minutes for them to check when you arrive, and i can turn up at 1am and despite a 100 space car park they say only 8 spaces are available and all are booked. Yet the car park is empty and I'm only after an hour of parking!

Jeci · 9 Jul 2013 at 11:29

My home made rack that sits in my room:

kalvindeane · 9 Jul 2013 at 11:32

That an Ikea table?

Magic_x_uk · 9 Jul 2013 at 11:35

I like this thread. But I am curious. Why are some work places restricted on taking photo's of servers? Just curious why that is.

They are only computers/servers etc and lots of wires?
(But then I am not in that industry, hence the question)

Thanks.

kalvindeane · 9 Jul 2013 at 11:41

Security reasons. The less information that people have about your kit the better.

Ringiho · 9 Jul 2013 at 12:13

kalvindeane said:
Security reasons. The less information that people have about your kit the better.

Exactly this. We don't let people take pictures of our DCs, there is little reason to.

Little_Crow · 9 Jul 2013 at 12:18

kalvindeane said:
That an Ikea table?

Almost certainly, do a search for "lack rack", and you'll find a multitude of examples.

Jeci · 9 Jul 2013 at 13:09

Little_Crow said:
Almost certainly, do a search for "lack rack", and you'll find a multitude of examples.

This man knows his stuff - if you go for the birch effect like myself, you'll find they currently retail for £6.

It's the Ikea Lack coffee table.

kalvindeane · 9 Jul 2013 at 13:36

I thought that it was.

pdw8 · 9 Jul 2013 at 14:44

Jeci said:
This man knows his stuff - if you go for the birch effect like myself, you'll find they currently retail for £6.

It's the Ikea Lack coffee table.

How are you supporting those routers and switches, surely all 5 are not just sitting on a Netgear box??

pdw8 · 9 Jul 2013 at 14:50

Magic_x_uk said:
I like this thread. But I am curious. Why are some work places restricted on taking photo's of servers? Just curious why that is.

They are only computers/servers etc and lots of wires?
(But then I am not in that industry, hence the question)

Thanks.

Not just photos, some customers use dummy company names on deliveries or restrict people even saying the real name.

Burnsy2023 · 9 Jul 2013 at 16:05

pdw8 said:
Not just photos, some customers use dummy company names on deliveries or restrict people even saying the real name.

Indeed, especially when your DCs hold Gov classified secret information systems.

Jeci · 9 Jul 2013 at 16:07

pdw8 said:
How are you supporting those routers and switches, surely all 5 are not just sitting on a Netgear box??

They've all got their rackmount brackets, instead of using cage nuts i'm using wood screws, and the netgear box is to stop the sag.

I'll be building in a shelf ultimately but needed to get things up and running today.

Somnambulist · 9 Jul 2013 at 17:21

pdw8 said:
Not just photos, some customers use dummy company names on deliveries or restrict people even saying the real name.

Yep we do that with deliveries for all 'that sort' of customer, although they tend to use fancy/grand sounding names rather than something comedic or non-descript. The highest stuff we have here requires SC clearance so I imagine it's a level below what it would be like somewhere requiring DV.