[AusNOG] Rack Studs - AWESOME

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

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> From: James Hodgkinson <yaleman at ricetek.net>
>To: Mark Dignam <mark at innaloo.net> 
>Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
>Sent: Sunday, 5 January 2014 9:34 AM
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Rack Studs - AWESOME
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>Were they the ones with the stupid blue plastic bits you have to push to make them unlock? They're great until you have to move them once or twice, then they're horrible. :(
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>James
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>On 5 January 2014 00:58, Mark Dignam <mark at innaloo.net> wrote:
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>Or, there will some equipment manufacturer who demands that their equipment is mounted using M7 bolts because of its weight loading.
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>>On the other hand, we could just demand something like some of the current IBM kit, I just installed a clients SAN, it was all ‘snap in’ slide rails, no screws required. 
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I've had very little to do with installing this sort of server gear, however I've already seen enough variation and incompatibility just across a few Dell and HP pizza box and blade chassis with standard and common racks that I already know it isn't as easy as it sounds. Common 800mm racks usually aren't deep enough, sometimes they are but you have to move the rails, which is only easy if there is nothing else in the rack, sometimes 900mm aren't deep enought etc.

The server design people should pick a standard, *single* rack size and design to fit in it, and they should go more RUs higher rather than deeper if they haven't got room.

Have never had these sorts of issues with comms gear. 

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>>From:AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Robert Hudson
>>Sent: Saturday, 4 January 2014 11:49 AM
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>>To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Rack Studs - AWESOME
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>>All good until some gumby cross-threads something and reams thread out of the rail...
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>>On 4 January 2014 13:46, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
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>>On 4 Jan 2014, at 9:37 am, Lloyd Wood <lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> But up-down only works where there's some space to work in. I doubt the original designers envisaged the rack cramming that we're all used to.
>>If only rack rails were manufactured with tapped M6 holes instead of square holes big enough to accept cage nut clips. Then we wouldn't need the nuts at all.
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>>   - mark
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