On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:19:50AM -0400, Brandon Applegate wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Positively Optimistic wrote: > http://www.cecommunication.com/pages/cablemgmtproducts.html > > I have no affiliation with them nor do I even have any - but they do look > nice. They claim to not block blade swaps or fan tray removal. > > If you notice about half the pics/links posted - folks have ALL cabling > leaving the 6500 to one side. If you don't do this, you must disconnect > cables to get the fan tray out. The folks fanning to both sides are > either ignorant or overly optimistic (no pun intended WRT your email > address) :)
Also in line with this, make sure the cables are bundled per-card, leaving a service loop big enough to be able to pull the line card out all the way without disconnecting the cables. This allows you to swap a line card and then move the cables one-by-one to the new card without losing track of where each cable connects.
