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well…this is embarrassing
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Dive into NetworkChuck's latest adventure as he tackles the chaos of his server room, transforming it from a tangled mess into an organized masterpiece with the help of Patchbox. Watch as he shares practical tips on server management, cable organization, and the importance of maintaining a clean IT environment. Whether you're a seasoned IT professional or just starting out, this video is packed with valuable insights and humor to keep you engaged. Don't miss the before-and-after transformation and learn how to avoid common server room pitfalls!
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You can also buy 0,5 meter network cables. Works out of the box…
The way you make videos is great, I've been following your channel for a while and it is majestic how subscriber count is swelling
Strategy:
always do this on downtime
make sure you have contacts at alll upstream (providers)
0. order enough different lengths and colors to redo all cabling (patchbox seems a nice solution)
1. take out all patches one by one and register in your rackmanagement software, throw out old cabling
1a. export registrations to git to keep track of change and blame
2. rearrange the racks in more logical units (in software)
3. apply new setup to the racks
4. repatch with appropriate length and color
5. verify, Verify, VERIFY
6. repeat every x years to catch the patch- and equipment-drift ™
6. after first time, use the registrations to find deviations (and earn fines)
Finding and training minions to do the dirty work is the biggest challenge
beer-, coffee-, dinner- and lunchfines help in keeping control
plan twice, patch once!!!
BT DT GTT, eons ago, you learn and teach others to do it properly, also use software to resgister all connections, racks, cabling (some great FOSS for that)
Klein makes a zip tie tensioning tool, #86570. You squeeze the handles which pulls the zip tie in, then the orange handle cuts the tie off super flush. No daggers for future you.
A leveton palm termination tool makes punch downs easier
Please, help me
I’d suggest wikijs, it’s a couple of docker run’s and you have a confluence replacement.
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Wow
Never heard of Richards Rainwater until @4:23
Dear NetworkChuck,
I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude and admiration for your work. I’m 17 years old and recently emerged from a dark period in the programming world, specifically black hat hacking. Your content has been a beacon of positivity and inspiration for me during this journey.
I am genuinely interested in following your path and learning from your experiences. However, I must admit that financial constraints are a challenge for me. Despite this, I am determined to pursue my passion and would greatly appreciate any guidance or advice you can offer.
I deeply respect your time and expertise, so I hesitate to reach out directly without an invitation. If there’s any way I can connect with you or learn from your journey, I would be immensely grateful.
Thank you once again for being a role model and sharing your knowledge with the community.
In the data center screws fall into the cold isle grates as a sacrifice to the rack gods.
Jeez, "label your cable" – simple rules work for reasons 😅 c'mon, these are basics
Gotta say, I've had customer closets😢 that I was ashamed to bring peers into for side jobs because they were such a wreck, but the client wasn't willing to pay to clean it up, and I'd inherited the problem, and figured it out over time. So I wasn't giving up a weekend for free to fix something they'd been building for years.
To be fair, I tried to keep anything new clean and managed, but it was truly a drop in the bucket
you should look into rack studs they are similar to the dev mounts
Devil mounting hahhahah
Hi Alex!
A year or 2 ago i bought a mikrotik switch with 481G ports, 4x10G and 2x40G
But then about year ago i was at a garage sale for a local community college and there were these "EXTREME" network switches, i dont recall the model name but it was 52 SFP+ ports and 6 QSFP+ ports
I picked up both of them for $40 each.
I have not used them because at idle they use like 120w, and my entire rack with 10x16TB drives, 4x960GB Optane 905P drives, and a 7950x(just in one of the boxes) uses only 270-360w. I want to keep this under the average solar input on my UPS/battery inverter.
Because my house is nowhere near the run limit for cat6, i just use patch pannels that are basically just use a double ended female coupler
Actually, i have 2×48 port patch pannels like this, one in the front of the rack, one in the back with 19 inch patch cables running between them.
19 inch because i have a shallow depth audio rack, ya, try finding cases and rails for this is not easy, also, its screw type ears rather than nut type ears, but it was free, fully enclosed, and glass front door
I will never get tired of looking at your rack now….😃
Rack Studs are the way. Eff cage nuts.
good for Terry
Maybe needs a cable tray above the two racks?
You need a rack ladder for that 80 gig connection duet so you can pin it down just in case. Seems kind of important and those cables seem kind of expensive. Ladder cost like 30 bucks. Plus would look cool to connect the racks with a small ladder. Data center style.
"How do I retract it?"
"😐"
Killed me
Are the patchbox cabels shealded?
Hi Alex!
If your desktop is in your rack, how do you use it? Remote Desktop? KVM over IP? Very, Very long cables?
The end result looks amazing. So much cleaner.
I believe you "hired" some techs to help you out with your server room. OMG i can't believe they left that mess like that. That's why I just hire runing cabling guys and I take take care of everything in my Network Racks!
Nice work! I always sucked at cable management. I mean I could initially set something up reasonably organized at first but it always became a mess over time then the inevitable "we have to take the company down for a whole weekend to re0organize this mess" would happen. Even worse at my current job, its a 24/7 shop so there is literally NO good time to "take the network down" for a couple days. :/ before we relocated the small datacenter out of state what I had inherited was cable spaghetti nightmare!
This was a good video.
Follow up video in 3 years… 😀
I love the Patchbox kit, but you aren't fooling me installing the dev/mnt 'for the first time' underneath the patchbox installed using dev/mnts . dev/mnts are a game changer as long as your cabs are standard fitting size they just clip right in, no more bloody finger nails/lost nuts/struggle to hold kit whilst lining up the screw etc etc just stick em in slide your kit onto the the bolts and just screw on the nuts. So simple, so much win.
vaping in the server room thats a sin
I am surprised you… managed all that.
29:04
heh…
Love the video quick question do you have or plan to have a video up on the channel about how you have your pc connected from your server room to your office?
20 years ago I worked for a telecom where I was building out server rooms, we were paid hourly so the cat5 trunks we installed were works of art. Very aesthetically pleasing.