Need to Design Server Rack Diagrams? Read This.
By Fred Koh - September 19, 2023There are many programs out there where you can create and manage your data center/telecom room rack diagrams. From placing servers, patch panels, switches, routers, PDUs, into the racks, having rack diagrams helps Data Center Managers and Network Managers to see how much space is available to place new equipment. But — there is more…
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Beyond the Basics: Unpacking the True Value of Rack Diagrams in IT Infrastructure
By Fred Koh - August 17, 2023Rack and Cabinet Diagrams – why are they needed? What exactly is a rack diagram? In the IT and network world, rack diagrams are a visual representation of IT hardware equipment inside a network/server rack. They’re used to track and manage: what assets are in each rack and where in the rack are they located….
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DCIM Software Racks: Monitoring and Oversubscription
By Jan Durnhofer - September 7, 2021In the previous four blogs in this five part series on racks in DCIM software, you learned about: rack basics such as rack mounting, modeling your own custom racks, creating visual overrides for capacity, and rack changes and capacity planning. What will you learn from the fifth and final (and corresponding video — which begins…
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DCIM Software Racks: Custom Modeling
By Jan Durnhofer - September 2, 2021In the previous three blogs in this series on racks in DCIM software, you learned rack basics such as rack mounting, how to set rack capacity visual overrides, and rack changes plus capacity planning. What’s next? All the features for rack management, rack capacity management, and so on are nice, but the question is: “how…
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DCIM Software Racks: Changes and Capacity Planning
By Jan Durnhofer - August 31, 2021In the previous two blogs in this five-part series, we covered rack basics such as rack mounting, as well as visual overrides for racks. In this, the third blog in this series (and corresponding video, which begins at 9:55 and ends at 12:55), we’ll look at capacity management for racks in netTerrain DCIM software. When…
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DCIM Software Racks: Capacity Visual Overrides
By Jan Durnhofer - August 30, 2021In the first blog in this series, we discussed the basics of racks in netTerrain DCIM — and you also learned how to mount equipment to racks. What’s next in this, the second part of this five-part series? In this blog (and video, which begins at 6:57 and ends at 9:54), we’ll explore some of…
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DCIM Software Racks: Basics
By Jan Durnhofer - August 26, 2021In this blog series all about racks, we’ll dive into using racks in netTerrain and explore some of the capabilities in terms of: ease of rack mounting, modeling, the different kinds of racks or cabinets that you can create, and some of the capacity planning features. In this blog, the first in a five part…
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