My Top Single Rack DataCenter Setup.

How would you manage to setup a datacenter in a cololaction facility 1000 miles away in 4 days and avoid a cabling rat nest nightmare?
This was a setup from over six years ago so some of the technology is not cutting edge anymore but to this day I am still thrilled with how smoothly this new datacenter turnup went. But more impotantly is the eye candy. I had all the equipment shipped to my location from the vendors where I was lucky enough to have spare 42U rack to stage it in. Once the gear was racked a wiring harness was crafted with four 1.75” diameter wire looms, the non split corrugated tubing type, cut to length of a rack rail. Each cut tube was fixed to a server rack rail with zip ties. The wire looms here are racked on each side of U numbers 28 & 34. The Cat6 cable was feed through the looms and cut to length at the ending interfaces then crimpped. This allowed for a wiring harness to be snapped in and out of the rack with little effort and easily shipped. The harness would be rack first followed by the equipment.

Rack Front

Rack Rear