You must build them if you want the professional look. No way around that - unless you want to take up rack space with some sort of cable management wrapping system and that becomes a pain to make future changes or replace cables.
Thank You Bob Evans CTO > Or you build the cable to fit the span. I must be getting old. > > Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 3:00 PM > To: North American Network Operators Group > Subject: Re: rack cable length > > Hi Shawn, > > If you don't leave slack, you can't really pull the server out of the RU > for maintenance (hot swaps, etc). Your best choice is to purchase cable > management trays if that makes sense (Dell servers usually come with > those). Otherwise you just need to deal with the loops and whatnot the > best way you can. If your colo hardware is really random (dells, HPs, > supermicros) then it gets worse, but if your hardware is homogeneous then > you can come up with some way of attaching brackets to the side of the > rack that could help you avoid a rats nest in the back of your rack > (granted you can't find cable management trays or they are too expensive > to justify the investment). > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:44 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is probably a stupid question, but.... >> >> We've got a few racks in a colo. The racks don't have any decent cable >> management (square metal holes to attach velcro to). We either order >> cable too long and end up with lots of loops which get in the way (no >> place to loop lots of excess really) or too short to run along the >> side (which is worse). It appears others using the same racks have >> figured this out, but... >> >> Do y'all just order 10 of each size per rack in every color you need >> or is there a better way to figure this out? I'm guessing something >> like 24 inches + 1.75 inchex x Us) + 24 inches and round up to >> standard length...? >> > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >
