Thanks, Craig. As an alternative, I just came across this from Dell:
http://bit.ly/3hg09J Click on the "Dell Data Center Capacity Planner (DCCP)" link to fire up a Flash-based tool. Add rack, add servers, add PDUs, etc. It's nice, since I don't have Visio. Of course, it is Dell-specific. But it gives me a reasonably good approximation, which is all I need for now. Down the road I may need something more sophisticated. Regards, - Robert On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Craig Tatham <[email protected]> wrote: > Pretty much the de facto standard that I have seen is Microsoft Visio with > some good product specific stencils (to get actual dimenions and to show > where all of the physical connections are at). I'm sure this isn't what you > are hoping for but *I* haven't seen anything better that anyone actually > uses. Pen and Paper may be your best quick and dirty solution. > > We had stencils from a place like Netzoom (could be wrong on the brand, > there are a lot of resources out there) > http://www.netzoom.net/home/index.php -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
