I have a smaller environment that you do - only two 4 post racks - but I came up with a standard for cabling colors. Here's my copy/paste from our wiki:
Patch cables in the server and data rooms will be colored according to kind of connection. The following is a list of our standard colors matched with the type of connection: White: Server connection to Layer 3 switch Purple: Server iSCSI connection to SAN Switch Red: Firewall or other untrusted connection to switch Black: Desktop connection to layer 2 switch Green: Switch to switch connections Yellow: IT workstations or network/environmental monitoring equipment connection to switch Orange: IP phone and Shoretel equipment connection to switch Pink: Wireless Access Point connection to switch Blue: Test/Dev interconnects Violet: Not yet used The only ones I'm really married to are the red for untrusted connections, orange for Shoretel (because that's the color of their boxes) and yellow for IT functionality. The rest are pretty arbitrary. Kurt On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > My main data center is a series of APC racks, 10 I think. Cabling is a bit > of a mess and I'm going to re-cable some weekend this summer. > > What are your preferences? Cable color by rack, system, type, etc? It's > just aesthetics but I'm looking for ideas. The core switches are about in > the center, so I have cables coming from both sides. > > Thanks, > Tom > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and > privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
