pry off the insulation, peel back the silver foily thing, carefully remove a tad of the inner silicone insulation to expose the copper soul, attach COAX plug, do the same at the other side, throw cable in box cut another 100 cm length, repeat process about 20 times /hour for 8 hours, no less than 120 lengths/day for 3 months My summer job in 1984....
I too, did this for a living, except all router and switch ports were PERMANENTLY wired to 110 blocks on a backboard, all work stations and PBX/phone jack wired to backboard, when changes needed, just change or add a cat5 twisted pair cross connect. Never ever had a rats nest like this again once we started doing this. The data center was very large, several 7000 series Cisco switches and routers. Patch cords not allowed....ever! Our data center had more that one main frame computer, and several hundred file servers.
If it was one foot total, then it would have been out of spec. Those short blue cables you see are connected to the 110 block, which I'm assuming lead somewhere else that is longer than 2 feet.
Someone would say, Ethernet cables don’t matter what interfaces you use. But with these many, there are Mac tables, which could be so many entries por the table to collapse and causing a failure in network, truly experts these fellas
Typical half assed job, likely at a school district. See it every day. Plan accordingly, schedule the maintenance window accordingly and do the job right or gtfo. Don't get me wrong, its a good start but why spend all that effort and not finish. And god, people putting their cores on the floor rubs me the wrong way.
Oh the challenges we all face in networking. Too often the wrong lengths of cables are purchased, available and used. Too often there is not enough smart cable management trays both horizontal and vertical. Too often almost anyone is granted access to the room to "just run one patch cable" to connect "X" device. If feel your pain and have spent many long hours doing exactly what this video demonstrates. The best environment I have been inside is an IBM "lights out" datacener. All of the racks where 4 post secure cabinets controlled by RFID card readers and numeric touch pad. If you were not granted access to the cabinet you couldn't open it. If you were granted access it was time controlled and you had to use coloured cables they provided. You were required to labled each end with a number and the number had to be recorded on a chart that told the next person in what exactly that number was for and where it was connected. If you didn't follow those rules all of your work was removed and you had to schedule it again.
> If you didn't follow those rules all of your work was removed and you had to schedule it again. But but that cable was for the CEO's new personal laser printer, it can't have downtime. The company's very existence depends on those documents being printed and posted on time! (/s)
Hard to say for sure. I actually left that position before I was totally finished with the clean-up job. The far left rack still had more work to be done. That was supposed to be the internet zone but there were a few other devices in there that I wanted to relocate to the server row, which would have been to my back. A few more months and I would have had that area totally cleaned but sometimes you go where the jobs take you.
I have had to deal with similar monsters like this, and I still have one rack that, while I would love to re-cable the lower half of it, we cannot justify the cost of doing so. The problem with that rack is that the guy that installed the cabling used 5m infiniband cables where 1m and 2m cables would have been sufficient, so there is a ton of extra cable just sort of stuffed wherever. Unfortunately the cost of replacing those cables for just sixteen nodes is in the range of $1-2k, and it just isn't worth it.
Jon Akers I've never understood the logic of such long cables. If it's being lazy when ordering it really makes the job far longer and harder during install.
It was a case of a decision to move the servers to a different rack after we had already received them, and using what we had on hand to wire them up. The distances changed, and the cost for getting the right cables was a bit steep. Since we were able to keep the cables contained within the rack doors, we have basically said it will be there until we retire those nodes.
Is it not possible to just cut the ends and put new connectors on? Or is that not allowed? While it would be a bit tedious. The cost for a box of RJ-45 connectors is pretty cheap and the crimpers aren't to bad either. Surely alot cheaper than $1-2k
FYI: I ordered my IB cables from a store in Rotterdam (major shipping port for north europe?) and they ran like $40 a piece. Cutting out a few intermediaries seems to have helped. Would still leave you at a few $$$ but better. also, the cable routing matters. one place I was at initially had HVD SCSI cables, 25m long, and thicker than IB. There was many dozen of those, and _zero_ mess nonetheless, it was set up by some good techs by EMC^2 and they just spiralled them in the right place.
Sadly I left the company before I was able to truly finish it up. I was able to clean a few more things up after the end of this video, but nothing as large as the initial clean-up.
Ho gawd! I will no longer complain about the state of our server room after having seen this disgusting mess. The giant spaghetti monster is real folks.
It is a shame that this room was this way. I have seen and worked with several functioning disasters like this. I certainly appreciate the cleanup. Thanks for the video.
И такой локальный пиздец творится в каждой второй серверной.. Сам как-то переделал в одной все на короткие патч-корды, пару серверов переставили и аж сердце стало радостно биться )))
Yeah. If you scroll around you'll see some people giving me a fair amount of hell for this "data center" not being a perfect co-lo environment with properly raised floors, or tidy hidden cables, or any other thing you'd have in a "real data center". Not every environment is ready to appear in advertisements, but they still gotta house equipment.
My question is, how long did it actually take to get it cleaned up as much as what he did. I wish he would have finished it as I was going to show this to my students. I will have to find a better video for that. Still, he is to be commended for getting it cleaned up some. You know, that extra slack should be tied off in the ceiling if they are cross connects. If they are just patch cords, cut them to length. You did all this work, why not finish the job?
How does one get into the field? I do server desk IT but I’ve grown an interest and curiosity of cable management for servers I would like to know how does one go down this path? Thank you
I want to ask a question , is that the final build of essential server ? if yes , I'm really hate this shape of cables unarranged because it suppose to have with container for every cell, it's really very ugly Synapse cables without arranged, and also it should to hide every cell on it's own container.
At least the video was sped up. And I personally would've planned and then proceeded to remove all the cables. If I'm going to be there for a while, I'll do it RIGHT...
Shit like this usually occurs over the tenure of multiple staff/managers. Nobody who works around network gear like to see this. Sometimes just getting the OT signed off on is a fight, that is until some exec's issue tskes too long to fix because of the state of the cabling.
in some environments u cant see everithing prety... network will just work nominal... sometime u cant lost the time in that stuf... u plug in , its ok? yes? acomplish.. next job... (i working on this sense 2003, im a nework admin)
I have a few questions about a gig like this. What is the job title? Or are you self employed? What are the hours like, average? What kinda money do you make from a job like this? I too would be interested in doing something like this on a professional level. Possibly part time? I have a lot of free time and only work 3-4 days a week. I’m also a night owl so this would be perfect. I have been working with my church for about two years now, all voluntarily of course and making some extra income would be great.
OMG, What a mess. Well, at least there was big improvement with a small amount of resources provided. Time to quit & find something better. Chalk this one up & definitely a resume builder...
I worked in many data centers (microsoft, apple, vmware, autodesk, yahoo, etc.) in the Bay Area for 10+ years. This network rack / row / cage is atrocious. With a little planning, some caring, self-respect and adequate time ... an organized, pleasant looking cable job isn't hard to do. And when you do have to work on a network row like the tech in the video had to, why would you even care about doing the "right thing" when obviously the client doesn't care about &/or pay for good quality work? During my career, most companies had a policy of requiring network racks like this be "cleaned up" during slow / down times (pull dead links, install missing labels, contact server owners that had incredibly poorly installed cables for down time approval so that cabling could corrected, manage unruly spaghetti as best as possible, etc.) I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of those cables aren't even being used. Nor would I be surprised if 50% of the cable are properly labeled. Oh, just got a reply from Stu... Thank you! From what you just said, I'm guess the client didn't have a dedicated network tech and there were simply too many property / server "owners" and network engineers that did their own cabling.
My slight ocd is going bonkers.....no proper harnessing/ strain relief........I would be there for 2 days looming every cable so it's neat and tidy and looks professional...... I can't help it, a few years fitting wiring to aircraft means i have a really low tolerance for shoddy work....... I just can't abide untidy wiring, grrrr
