Oct 21 2011
Oh, Servers
Any of our readers work in IT? Have you had to deal with anything THIS ridiculous? I mean I’ve heard of disorganized server rooms before, but this has to be a whole new level. It’s so ridiculous it’s almost art. Or like some technological spider worked it’s way in there and spun an infinite web of cable.
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I’ve actually come pretty close to this. The wiring was just as shitty, but there were fewer racks.
They bundled all the cabling going from the racks to the wall into one giant zip tied monstrosity. It had to have been about a foot in diameter.
Whoever wired that room originally needs to be shot.
Yep, seen this bad (and worse) in places you wouldn’t expect.
Fiber cables that were in such bad shape (from hanging down in a forced 90° angle because of all the above cables hanging down on top of it) that you couldn’t touch them. If you did, there was a 80% chance that it would simply break. Leaving you with the choice to either “me know nothing” and run OR try to find the other end (while most probably breaking other cables in the event).
Whenever I had to power down a switch, I did it with a chop stick or something long and slim (nope, not my “D”) like a pen. Gently prying through the cables, trying to get to the on/off button without touching too much cables.
Can’t tell you where it was ’cause then I would probably have to kill you. (yes, that was a hint)
Yup I’ve been in a server room just as bad, it was for a major travel company in fact. I used to find the ends of Cat5 cables hanging out of the mess and follow them back into servers, hubs, racks, the other unplugged end, and sometimes right under the floor into oblivion. Not only that, there were various servers & other equipment all over the place to trip over, oh and a lovely static generating carpeted floor.
That was BEFORE they started skimping on the IT budget and started using Dell desktop PCs in place of servers – stacked up on top of each other in a full height rack. Replacing the hard drive on one of them involved my boss lifting up most of the stack and me pulling the bottom desktop out before he dropped the lot.