12 Jan
2011
12 Jan
'11
10:51 a.m.
--- On Wed, 1/12/11, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Do modern companies (Dell, Compaq, Cisco, Sun, etc.)
even
still
publish the big old installation planning guides like IBM
did (and
still does)? The ones I have seen look like afterthoughs
written on
the back of a gum wrapper.
I've never seen any such manual, but I've seen plenty of data center designs like
that. One customer's site had several 1 and 2U servers, all jammed into a two-post
comms rack, all stacked on top of the one piece of hardware that actually mounted into the
rack, the router. It's amazing that the rack didn't fall over. Their other servers
were tower cabinets sitting on the floor.
-Ian