Server Cable Build-out TimeLapse!

Recently I built out a new server rack at my job with 16 new servers. This Time-lapse shows the process I go though to make everything neat and easy to work on. This is around 15 hours of work shot over multiple few hour sessions.

A few notes:
1. The spacing was determined by another internal group, i typically would not leave spaces between servers.
2. Only the Ethernet cabling was cut to length. I did not get to order Fiber or Power cables, our internal group sent only on size.

The 2 big secrets to making cabling look good is Cable Combs, and some sort of material to hold your bundles together. I HIGHLY suggest Hook and Loop cable straps!

***Intro Music: Tobu Hope [NCS Release]***
Music:
Tobu - Colors
Tobu - Candyland

[RaphaelBaron]

For some people it's ASMR. For us, it's this channel. Awesome work

[superpiyok]

I'm a System Administrator here in Singapore and what an amazing job you got there. You completed this task beautifully mate. I missed my datacenter days, we do arranging UTP and fibre cables the same way you do. Fall in love with your creation :) you know what I mean. Keep it up, mate! (1 subscriber here)

[insertstupidserialnumberhe]

Legends say people that have handled servers before can feel the weight of this video.

[krappa]

Just wait until somebody who is not even supposed to be in the server room wants some additional connection to their machine and run their 10m tp-cable over the rack, making sure to tangle it on as many other cables as they can. Then when you ask if you can move it they say the connection is crucial and must not be temporarily broken under any circumstances.

Hopefully your good wiring is still holding up!

[ColinCKOV]

Very gracious and professional of you to say "hook and loop tape."

[mika]

wait 192 subscribers? thats should be 192k! well atleast you're at 193 now ;)

[Eric-mgyr]

The quickest I've seen a big person move. Wow man!

[cheifthumbs]

This was my job from 1995-2005. Nice clean job! Well done! that was fun to watch.

[wanderfritzy]

I also work as IT administrator in our office, and I admire your work. Have my subscription

[alphaprot]

Wow - that was truly mindblowing to watch despite being only a few 1U servers in a single rack with 1U for ventilation, but it was awesome to see such a clean and tidy built.
There are actually two things which prevent me from having such a beautiful order in my serverrack as well:
1) Not many servers means not many cables
2) Money - as always :)


But as a personal effort I try to make the little stuff I have also tidy and good looking, because good CM keeps you from uneccassary struggles and raging in anger once something goes wrong :)

[AshboDev]

As someone who works in a data centre, this is satisfying. Excellent job, keep it up, and so glad you used Velcro ;) We also colour code our cables, velcro everything etc. One thing I would suggest (As a human, and someone who does remote hands for clients..) colour code your power cables. I use White and Orange myself, however some of our clients user red/blue, black/white etc. Of course one colour is connected to one PDU, the other to another. It makes life lot easier, believe me!

[ufoludek]

Finally THANK YOU youtube algorithm for reccomending me this!

[DiscountLowVoltage]

You killed it!! 🍻I will post this on the company FB page, good job dude!

[falcon]

You are absolutely awesome, these things do take forever, and are hard to do properly, but any person in the future will thank you from the bottom of their hearts
Greetings
(I myself love soldering, i also love the rj 45 connector, its awesome in my opinion)

[aaronfisher]

This reminds me of my old job at an IBM data center. Whenever we’d build out a new row we’d have hundreds and hundreds of individual eth cables going to each rack. We used to have to run them individually like you’re doing here, but eventually we started ordering custom made RGB bundles that were already cable managed and cut to size and mounted on the side of the rack as one piece. HUGE time saver... except for when we were building a custom row for internal servers. Still had to run each fiber cable individually though....

[GER-Thorgs]

Great video and good job with all the cables. I can feal the pain from terminating all the RJ-45 :P

[NeelNarayan]

Please do a video on proper Cat6 termination. & labelling as well.

[rudydiaz]

Excellent video I like the comment where you say "WORK WITH WHAT I HAVE" some technician tend to argue and get piss off instead off getting it DONE!!!

[stbdrone]

Amazing video dude! Met you on reddit and now im definitely subscribing!! More cable management like this please

[JeffLongley]

Nice work; similar to what we do, but we also colour code power cables for A + B feeds.