Hi,
In my opinion:
That time you take to rack devices with classic rail can be
viewed as a bounding moment and, while appreciated by the device, will
reducing downtime issues on the long run that you may have if you just
rack & slap 'em.
It is also Friday =D.
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On 9/24/21 12:56 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote:
On 9/24/21 10:37 AM, Andrey Khomyakov wrote:
So ultimately my question to you all is how much do you care about
the speed of racking and unracking equipment and do you tell your
suppliers that you care? How much does the time it takes to install
or replace a switch impact you?
I was having a conversation with a vendor and was pushing hard on the
fact that their switches will end up being actually costlier for me
long term just because my switch replacement time quadruples at
least, thus requiring me to staff more remote hands. Am I
overthinking this and artificially limiting myself by excluding
vendors who don't ship with toolless rails (which is all of them now
except Dell)?
My 2¢ opinion / drive by comment while in the break room to get coffee
and a doughnut is:
Why are you letting -- what I think is -- a relatively small portion
of the time spent interacting with a device influence the choice of
the device?
In the grand scheme of things, where will you spend more time
interacting with the device; racking & unracking or administering the
device throughout it's life cycle? I would focus on the larger
portion of those times.
Sure, automation is getting a lot better. But I bet that your network
administrators will spend more than an hour interacting with the
device over the multiple years that it's in service. As such, I'd
give the network administrators more input than the installers racking
& unracking. If nothing else, break it down proportionally based on
time and / or business expense for wages therefor.
Thanks for your time in advance!
The coffee is done brewing and I have a doughnut, so I'll take my
leave now.
Have a good day ~> weekend.
