A DAY in the LIFE of the DATA CENTRE | RACKING SERVERS with ASH & JAMES!

The next installment in our "A DAY in the LIFE" series follows our two Service Delivery Manager's, Ash & James, as they show us how to rack servers and switches into one of our data centre racks - correctly!

We want to continue taking you inside the data centre, showing you what goes on and what our clients expect in our Tier 4 facility in Kent, which to this date has had no power outages.

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[DroneCentralUK]

the slipped up we now know the pin code to enter that room is a smiley face

[GiorgioBonfiglio]

Cisco 2960, Cisco 6500 with GBIC line cards and G5 servers - feels like you had to timetravel to 2008 to shoot this.

[Fishbait]

Network tour would be great. Explaining where your feeds come in from the outside world, and how they get given out to the racks. And is your carrier neutral, how customers can pick and have the carrier of their choice delivered to their rack.

[joshuagardner]

"I'll take the Red pill"
We're all such nerds here, and I love it!

[urbanpulsewalks]

I did a cable schedule once in a small data centre. Had to trace every Lan cable from end to end from 12 rack cabinets, label each end of the cables and record it all onto a spreadsheet. Took me about six weeks.

[alextassot]

Great job on the video guys. I'm sure it would greatly help some inexperienced tech.
However, worth to note that before tidying-up your cabling with velcro, one must be sure there is enough slack to be able to pull the server and do maintenance.
As an exemple, the server in U21 would lose power feed A were you to pull it out! That's a major no-no.
Again, nice video nonetheless, thanks for sharing it

[trollmanrs]

A lot easier with 2 people, I used to install our Broadcast Encoder servers single handed. Tough times. Good job.

[stingrayb]

Thank you for taking the time to post this series of videos. Cage nuts were a great improvement over the old style racks with pre-threaded holes, which could get stripped (occasionally happened). Plus, the option to choose between different rack screw and thread sizes.

[sageosaka]

Just found my new favorite YouTube channel

[gregy]

I am new to the latest data centers, so I enjoyed this video very much. You gave just enough bonus info to keep it moving, but at the same time it was extra informative! Thank you and I look forward to more!

[CreachterZ]

You guys are awesome! Thank for the insight.

[lordchive]

Racking servers and putting in cage nuts and drawing blood is like a sacrificial offering to the networking gods :)

[mathiasensimon]

I love how their explain everything to each other like they dont know

[simonfoxell]

Nice explanation. Just one extra procedure we carry out, The Pull Test. Once we have racked the server we pull it back out to it;s locking point (if it has one) while supporting the bottom just to make sure it is racked securely.

[meynoush]

I loved how cutely James was trying not to look at the camera. =))

[steveurbach]

I have a couple of 1/4" steel rods I place thu the top hole of the U below, to form an 'X'. That makes it easy to rack Ears Only devices with a single person (and hold up those extra heavy 2U switches without tiring).

[gwgux]

He's right, those rack nuts hurt like hell when they get you. I never used gloves when racking servers and switches, but it's not a bad idea.

[evelbsstudio]

It wasn't that much different in 1990 but the wages where better and there wasn't many people in IT so you had to be 1st, 2nd, 3rd line support, software support and telecoms installers and support (the telecoms wasnt as easy as it is these days), then they started pushing school leavers in to the industry and the wages plummeted, now the job is more defined in to specialist in one field or another and the market is saturated.

There wasn't all the different qualifications, university was just IT degree where they taught software programming and the only other qualifications where Microsoft certification and Novel networking and you had to have both certifications to work in the field.

Every site was different with a mix of bnc and rj45 networks.

I used to enjoy my job but left the industry to become an electrician and plumber when the wages dropped £25k-35k a year. (Dependand on the contracts you where assigned and locations).

£40k was a bloody good wage them days when you could buy a house for £16k and lower.

[scottscott]

You guys are super knowledgeable, and super cool. "Ash... thumbs up". This looks like a great company to work in. Everything is so neat, tidy, structured. I love the fact that the company is customer needs focused.

[markarca]

Power bars - PDU (power distribution unit)