I'd also add that for heterogeneous equipment, favor putting equipment with similar rack depth together. There's nothing worse than having a short 1U server sandwiched between two deeper ones and not being able to get your hand in there to fiddle with cables and such. It's also an airflow no-no, as the outflow from the short server will tend to warm up the chassis above and below it.
Speaking of airflow, what's the feeling on blanking panels? Does it matter only "at scale", i.e. more than 2-3 racks in a small room, or is it always a good idea? The profit margins on what is basically a chunk of painted sheet metal are rather insulting... Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
