Nice Rack

March 12th, 2005 - 3:41pm

Just got back from work, where Lesly and I have just spent around 6 hours fiddling with a rack.

We had to install a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server and a Dell PowerVault 114T tape unit into the rack. Easy enough, right?

Unfortunately, due to the existing equipment in the rack, we also had to buy new, longer shelves, and move the vertical rails all the way to the back. This meant that we had to remove everything and setup the entire thing from scratch. Least we managed to make it much neater in there, even with the addition of another few cables.

We also installed an el cheapo non rack-mounted KVM switch which didn’t seem to like the trackball on our keyboard. Ah well, an optical mouse is now in there too.

What an enjoyable “long” weekend I’m having. A whole day off!

Tags: overtime, servers, work