Machines | Cabling a SoftLayer Data Center Server Rack
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http://www.softlayer.com ≡ http://sftlyr.com/ib A few weeks ago, SoftLayer COO Sam Fleitman posted "Before They Were SoftLayer Data Centers," (http://sftlyr.com/ia), a virtual scrapbook from the San Jose data center construction process, and based on the surge of traffic we saw to the post, our customers loved it. It's incredible to see an open warehouse-looking space transformed into an enterprise data center environment, and there's more amazingness where that came from. In addition to the pre-"Truck Day" pictures we posted on the blog and in the San Jose DC Construction album on Flickr, we trained a video camera on a row in the data center to capture the cabling process. What's so interesting about plugging in cables? Consider the fact that each of the network switches we use in a rack has at least 48 ports. Now consider that each rack has two public network switches, two private network switches and one out-of-band management network switch that need to be connected to every SoftLayer server in the rack. That's 240 pre-measured network cables that need to be labeled and routed to specific heights in each rack ... without getting tangled and knotted up (see: behind your TV or under your computer desk). Get ready to be amazed here's the SJ data center team in action. The video is playing at 20x normal speed, and given the amount of time it takes to complete the cabling process for each rack, we enlisted the help of SpongeBob SquarePants in our use of the "Two Hours Later" cut. http://www.softlayer.com ≡ http://sftlyr.com/ib
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Layer 1 work lol
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I quit watching when i saw a guy with a pocket full of zip ties. 02:04
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Developer mark hundred example present bomb swallow
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Ce sont toujours les humains ?????????????
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and this right here is the reason why IT jobs are better and more fun and free
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is it just me or does anyone else fine the Two hours later from sponge bob funny?
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4:04 nice guitarist..
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Wow. I had to watch this from behind the sofa!
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What model of switch did they use?
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I don't understand why they need so many cables. My small home server only needs one ethernet cable for the wifi and thats it.
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Bass banger
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Can You Help Me Please. I Want Make Server But I cant Understand How I connect My messaging App . Pls Help Me
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did those guys ever heard something called "cable management" ? or "scratch clamp" instead of those plastic ones ? wtf is this amateur work
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man, it must suck to have one broken cable
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No horizontal cable management between the Cisco ethernet switches? Freakin' ZIP ties?! Seriously have you guys ever replaced a bad switch before? If I was your network engineer I would murder someone for these fails.
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What a beauty.
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Good job.
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SoftLayer buy some Velcro boys
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Most hardest part to adjust server is Cabling hands off to those worker who adjust the cabling and maintain is best of luck
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Mantap