[AusNOG] Rack Studs - AWESOME

[Nathan Le Nevez]

Nexus 7ks don't fit in our 1050mm racks unless the front and rear rack doors are removed!

5k's aren’t much better either...

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark ZZZ Smith [mailto:markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au] 
Sent: Sunday, 5 January 2014 6:41 PM
To: Nathan Le Nevez; James Hodgkinson; Mark Dignam
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Rack Studs - AWESOME





----- Original Message -----
> From: Nathan Le Nevez <nathan at lenevez.net.au>
> To: Mark ZZZ Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au>; James Hodgkinson 
> <yaleman at ricetek.net>; Mark Dignam <mark at innaloo.net>
> Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Sent: Sunday, 5 January 2014 4:37 PM
> Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Rack Studs - AWESOME
> 
>>  Have never had these sorts of issues with comms gear.
> 
> Then you have never racked a Cisco Nexus... :)
> 
> 

True. How big was it? If it is so big that it needs special rack mount kit then I think a chassis failure requiring replacement will cause a too large a MTTR and require too many people.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of 
> Mark ZZZ Smith
> Sent: Sunday, 5 January 2014 1:58 PM
> To: James Hodgkinson; Mark Dignam
> Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Rack Studs - AWESOME
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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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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. :(
>> 
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 5 January 2014 00:58, Mark Dignam <mark at innaloo.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Or, there will some equipment manufacturer who demands that their 
>> equipment
> is mounted using M7 bolts because of its weight loading.
>>>  
>>> 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.
>>>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>>>  
>>> From:AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of 
>>> Robert
> Hudson
>>> Sent: Saturday, 4 January 2014 11:49 AM
>>> 
>>> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Rack Studs - AWESOME
>>>  
>>> All good until some gumby cross-threads something and reams thread 
>>> out
> of the rail...
>>>  
>>> On 4 January 2014 13:46, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org>
> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 4 Jan 2014, at 9:37 am, Lloyd Wood <lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>  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.
>>> 
>>>    - mark
>>> 
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