Data center pr0n and Cable management pr0n!!! its our lucky day.

[Oneslowz28]

http://hacknmod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/msft_datacenter_top_image_wtrmk_02.jpg

http://hacknmod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/microsoft-data-center-600x375.jpg

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via http://hacknmod.com/hack/worlds-most-stunning-data-centers/

[Airbozo]

I am an absolute cable neatness freak!

Every time I go to one particular customers site, I can't help myself from cleaning up their cables.

[Oneslowz28]

are you as neat as that last photo?

[Oneslowz28]

and here are some cable messes.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2180039413_f54b142ff4_o.jpg

http://www.vibrant.com/images/cables/racks-mess-andrew-mac.jpg

http://www.vibrant.com/images/cables/rats-nest-n8foo.jpg

[Airbozo]

are you as neat as that last photo?

This is an example of my latest rack. In this photo it is still unfinished. I will post a finished one later...

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8353/willowgarage1u019.th.jpg (http://img153.imageshack.us/i/willowgarage1u019.jpg/)

[Oneslowz28]

That is tidy

[diluzio91]

and here are some cable messes.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2180039413_f54b142ff4_o.jpg


is that a blanket.... wait NOOOOOOOOOOO :no:

well... lets get to work... :smoker:

[TheMainMan]

Gotta wonder how well that retains heat.... ^
It's nice to see that some people actually care about the aesthetics of cables not just the functionality.

[x88x]

Gotta wonder how well that retains heat.... ^
It's nice to see that some people actually care about the aesthetics of cables not just the functionality.

It's really just as often about functionality as aesthetics. In the case of that 'blanket', sure, it works now...but if anything breaks the amount of time that they'll likely waste trying to find the issue will be exponentially longer than if the cabling were actually managed.

That being said, it's also about aesthetics. ;) I love me a clean rack. :D ...in retrospect, that could be taken another way...keep your minds out of the gutter damn it! :whistler:

EDIT:
Looking through the pics in the link....how many of you sysadmins would kill to have this office?
http://hacknmod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/3028705951_b330207194_o1.jpg

EDIT2:
Anyone who has ever had to work with splitters will understand the true horror of this image:
http://www.vibrant.com/images/cables/mess-unmanaged-gruzuk.jpg

[dr.walrus]

http://hacknmod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2215694547_54a425c877_o.jpg


Oh god I've worked on one like this and it feels like a crime cutting through all those cable ties.

Half an hour later, it feels like a crime that anyone is legally allowed to use that many cable ties in the first place

[Drum Thumper]

Anyone who has ever had to work with splitters will understand the true horror of this image:
http://www.vibrant.com/images/cables/mess-unmanaged-gruzuk.jpg

You just made my eyes bleed and my stomach churn a little bit.

[Airbozo]

Oh god I've worked on one like this and it feels like a crime cutting through all those cable ties.

Half an hour later, it feels like a crime that anyone is legally allowed to use that many cable ties in the first place

I am the king of tie wraps.

When I build a rack that is static, I will use hundreds of them and half of them get cut off during the process. Once I build one rack and get the tie wraps set, the next rack doesn't take as many. If I build a rack that will be in flux I use cable channels and Velcro wraps.

One of these days I will find the pictures of when I used wax line to crochet wires into a harness.

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3475/cablelacing6b.gif (http://img3.imageshack.us/i/cablelacing6b.gif/)

Here's an example;
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3034/cablelacingbig.jpg (http://img52.imageshack.us/i/cablelacingbig.jpg/)

[dr.walrus]

If I build a rack that will be in flux I use cable channels and Velcro wraps.


this makes everything ok.

[blueonblack]

@ Airbozo - You sir have been sigquoted. :)

[Twigsoffury]

Half an hour later, it feels like a crime that anyone is legally allowed to use that many cable ties in the first place

Velcro straps.


All I use these days.

[pea20]

I have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabling in the past, but this time we figured it was time to do the opposite: Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art.