On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Miike Lovell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/2/2009 1:22 PM, Dave Smith wrote: > >> Pluggers: >> >> Does anyone know of software (commercial, Free, or otherwise) that can be >> used to layout server racks? Think data center. I want software to help me >> plan out, physically, where my servers and other equipment will reside in >> their respective racks. Ideally, it would also help me plan cabling needs as >> well (like how long my cat-5 cables or power cables need to be). >> >> Any ideas? >> > Excel?!? I had a co-worker that did the datacenter layout in an excel > spread sheet where like 4 cells were equivalent to one 2 foot tile in the > datacenter. And he did it for 4 different cages/colos!! It was one ugly hack > job. I don't recommend it. > > Mike > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > One thing that is related that we use at my work is: http://www.nagvis.org/sites/default/files/screenshots/nagvis-1.3-rack.png Nagvis is really nice if you are using nagios for monitoring. We use a lot of Dell and IBM servers so this is what we used to generate our rack templates: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pedge/topics/en/config_calculator?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
