Avoid the chaos of unplaned growth.

Unplanned, uncrontrolled growth can lead to chaos in the data center and server room.  Some server rooms in small to medium businesses are built with little or no regard for cable management.  And the consequences can be more than cosmetic.  It’s not a question of if you experience downtime, but when.

Fortunately, Boot Networks creates order from chaos in data centers and server rooms.  Offering practical long-term solutions for regaining control and ensuring availability.

  1. Make a connectivity map – Document the location of all devices running in your environment and assign them a number.
  2. Use these connectivity maps label each device and their location on your patch panel.
  3. Disconnect all network cables going from the patch panel to the switches and reorganzie them using the new or existing cable management.  Servers would use red cables, printers yellow ones and workstations could use traditional blue ones.
This is a common sight. A disorganized data center and server room.

This is a common sight. A disorganized data center and server room.

 

  1. A well connected data center facilitates better air flow. The right-size cables keep the amount of cable in the cable management arm to a minimum which allows hot air from the back of the servers and network equipment  to escape.
  2. Faster troubleshooting and better operation of the cable management arm when extending servers out of the rack for service. One should be able to pull the server out and have the cabling remain neat. 
  3. Regain control of your data center and server room. There is a sense of pride when your expensive IT invesment looks like a multi-million dollar data center.
A properly wired data center would look like this.

A properly wired data center would look like this.