[AusNOG] Switch installation in data centre racks - front facing, or rear facing?

[Paul Wilkins]

There's enterprise racks, and SP racks and I'd say to generalise,
Enterprise do the ports to the front to structured cabling, while SPs will
reverse mount for shorter wire runs and density. Also swapping out reverse
mounted switches is a huge pain.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 4 October 2017 at 12:55, David Hooton <david.hooton at ordnance.co> wrote:

> > On 3/10/17, 10:34 pm, "AusNOG on behalf of Ken Wilson" <
> ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net on behalf of ken.wilson at opengear.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
>
> > Tagging onto this - does the same go for your out-of-band equipment?
> (those that have it)
> >
>
> Yes absolutely, as Nick has mentioned for his IPMI switches we generally
> use rear facing OOB everywhere. Most servers and other non networking
> equipment generally put their network ports on the back of their devices,
> it just makes sense to keep network patching all on one side of the rack so
> we don’t have cables running from front to rear. I am surprised how many
> vendors still don’t offer rear to front airflow boxes.
>
> DJH
>
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