Technimove - Environment Re-Cabling (Before & After)
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2018
- Our migration methodology is designed to focus on minimising downtime against the project at all stages. By carefully planning an efficient pre-cabling process, we ensure your server move is on course to achieving this objective from day one.
Ahead of a migration, our engineers will pre-cable the target environment, installing copper and fibre cables from the top of rack switches and patch panels, including network cable management.
Our patch cable management can make or break a project when it comes to business-critical systems. So when it comes to environment cabling we supply cables in custom colours and lengths to best suit your specific requirements, whilst also negating excessive cable management. We understand the frustration of an untidy cabinet and that IT personnel should not be spending valuable time tidying cables. We will ensure your environment is left clean, tidy and organised throughout your project.
Completing the pre-cabling activity is crucial to the success of the project as it reduces the risk of costly delays and unnecessary downtime. Our expert input at this stage of the moving process is fundamental in ensuring that these potential setbacks are avoided ahead of the migration.
Installations and Environment Re-Cabling
Technimove also offers stand-alone environment re-cabling solutions. With increasing demands on IT teams to maintain systems, replace ageing systems and install new software, it is easy to neglect your server room cabling. If this happens to your business, you can call upon Technimove specialists to help you with your environment cabling problems and help you to keep your server room cables tidy in future.
Our environment cabling services are designed to allow your IT team to focus on other areas of your business by ensuring that they do not spend their valuable time tidying cables! We’ll patch your servers using best practice and take care of your server cable management needs.
This activity is completed by undertaking a physical audit and cable trace of the environment, documenting all critical information. Utilising the data gathered during the audit, the environment is then re-cabled to our market-leading standards or in line with requirements set by the client. Cables installed are labelled top and tail and are managed to aid airflow, cooling and resilience.
Our environment cabling services are incredibly important to the continuity and success of the projects we work on. Technimove clients can leave the environment cabling to experts, safe in the knowledge that their server room cabling will be fit for purpose and fully optimised.
We will run the cables correctly later, we just need to get it up for now.
And then you are in a team where everyone is afraid to un-patch it because well, there is no redundancy anyway so we can't because the service follows the high availability rule and so you have this nagging mess in the corner of your eyes. While sitting at your desk, you look through the window of the server room and can see that... :O
One factor of lowered focus...
_Yeah right, dad.._
Great work. I think the data can flow easier now.
joke a side
Technically, YES it do.
Yes, data can't get through if any of the wires are kinked.
@@billychristmas I wish my wife was as kinked as those cables.
Better airflow for the servers too, the cooler the system, the better the performance.
Also easier acces to make any changes, a lot of fucking easier
literally noone:
youtube: lets recommend this random 9 month old video about cabelmanagement to everyone
I think CZcams is just watching these videos on there own spare time and liking them then it gets recommended to the world
True! I've no idea why youtube recomended this video to me! :D
@@AimmyWags I'm pretty sure that they have some AI recommending videos to different people with different interests
@@eavdr524 I'm pretty sure I was just making a joke, but thank you for the info lol
@@AimmyWags Well you never know. I bet many people think that that's how it works and your comment seemed pretty serious to me lol
I work in a data center. I need to train with this guy for a few months.
If only you could just unplug everything and just put what ever where ever.
I know. The dressing is not the hard part, the hard part is making sure you dont screw up your port configurations or stuff will go down
You can :)
@@CharleswoodSpudzyofficial - Clearly an outage would be needed to do this
@@adamutuber not necessarily. If your racks are separate fault domains and your workloads are portable than you just move the loads to a different rack and work on the one needing attention, though if someone's racks look like that I doubt they have any kind of proper configuration...
I was just thinking, must not be any port specific VLANs setup lol
PC Gamers: "We do the best cable management"
IT Guys: Hold my Beer...
but many IT guys are also gamers....
akui88 nope. Being a dev for 3 years. Never see anyone plays games.
Lmao PC gamers have like 20 cables max to manage, while these guys manage up to 100-200 probably.
Mark This is a small private sector. My school I went to has a much more complex system than this.
@@marko96 mm this is small, thousands sometimes.
Looks great. As many have said, takes alot of pre-planning as those cable lengths need to be figure out and bought or more then likely custom made.
They just have 1000 foot boxes of cat. You measure and terminate on sight. Hell on your fingers.
Nicely done, sir. Go to the top of the class!
Looks great. Since a lot of planning is required for many people, we do it right on the spot, and there is a small nuance that reduces such beauty to complete zero, namely, it is impossible to extend the server for work, the servers have special sleeves from the back, which for some reason are missing on this video.
Doing it right, makes for a thing of beauty and a joy to behold.
Me: I'm going to shut down the data center for a few hours to do some cable management. My director: Haha gtfo here.
LOL I was just about to say that, nobody in their right mind would shut down the data center for a few hours let alone a few seconds.
Wow, your Director sounds mean! ☹️ Here, I tell you want, go back to him with this repsonse... But there is no need to ''shut down the Data Centre''. Technimove can provide their Transformation Platform that will allow our critical services and applications to remain available and online 24/7/365 whilst they do this. A utility-based private cloud platform, it provides infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) during Data Centre transformations or environment re-cabling just like this. These bespoke cloud solutions are tailored to ensure service availability, uptime and uninterrupted business operations. So yeah... oh also im going to HR 😉
@@Technimove nice content keep it up man!
@@koreykore4482 I've shutdown plenty of enterprises datacenters to upgrade network equipment. If downtime for planned maintenance is an issue, then you need a second datacenter (or IAAS). cause the idea that you can't have any downtime for software or hardware upgrades is a bit prosperous.
If taking a single rack offline like this causes outage for your organisation you need a better DR setup.
Great. You really often have the opportunity to unpatching a wohle rack. But can do it better. Simple re-patch all servers like in the video above and you can‘t change any spare parts like cache controller or pci cards even if you completely unplug all cables again so you are able to pull out your server.
Great benefit👍🏼
rarely* have the opportunity
youre bringing the server down regardless for that so length is not as much of an issue
I noticed that all the cables were labeled. Very nice
Thank you! My OCD is happy now!!
Night and Day.... Beautiful job
Cable pron! I have tried this in a running environment. HELL!!
👏 awesome job!👍
This makes me feel bliss
Always took the time to do things the right way. Never had a cabinet became messy like that. Do it right in the first place or go home.
Can I go to your home?
The easiest way to prevent this type of behavior is to strictly limit access to the network closets and server rooms.
The next thing is to make available patch cables of varying length and colors.
Predetermine which colors represent things like connections to Wi-Fi, printers, plotters and other peripheral devices.
Each end if the patch cable should be labeled with numbers so it's easier trace.
Once numbered the cables then are installed in numerical order and by length, use cable ties or velcro ties.
This will be tedious but once complete troubleshooting issues will be much easier. Once the job is done your done. Failures can be most likely traced to hardware and not the cable itself.
Even then, pre-fab always looks like this. If you are willing to spend the extra $$ and time, patch on site. And the other thing with doing it onsite, is you do not need all the extra space to hold spare cables of varying lenghts. Just a couple boxes/spindles of 5e or 6e
Cool. Now let's do it without service interruption (99% of real life cases)
Nice rooting great job
nicely done homie ! awesome !
I used to think thame reason cabinets became messy was because of lazy it guys, but ice discovered that this happens over time when on tight deadlines you just end up plugging in cables and leaving them where they lie because at the time you have to get something done that day.
And now I realize it's not a simple job dressing the cables since you cant just plug random cables in into random ports since you have things like lag, vlans and smart ports that need to be taken into consideration. Not only that but documentation must be made as well for what goes where. It's simply a problem that you will run into on the job if you work in IT
WTF is documentation lol?
@@jeremyz6911 As someone who decommissions .. the red tape is worth the time. To an extent anyway .. right now we are turning up 32 servers and 4 months later they are still putting the devices in inventory .. they could be racked, stacked, inventoried, stood up and configured in a couple weeks or less if it was not so disjointed of a process. Documentation is important but if it takes 6 months to do it .. youre doing it wrong.
Where are the cable management arms? As is you can't pull out any of the devices without disconnecting the cables. And why are half the power cables the same colour as the data cables?
I can already feel the data flowing better
Just as important as, if not more important than an OCD cabling job like here is documentation of what is plugged into each switch port!
Assuming these are G6/7 DL380’s, I recall they have 2x 2-port onboard Network cards. The way you’ve cabled these servers appears to be port 1&2 to a network switch, port 3&4 to another network switch. I’ve experienced onboard card failures on these servers that would leave 1&2 or 3&4 down. If the corresponding network switch was also down, you’ve lost all connection.
We used to run 1&3 to a switch, 2&4 to another switch instead.
On a DL server if you are aggregating network then 1&2 would become 1 pair of interface and 3&4 would become second pair.
If cards are not aggregated then correct wiring for redundancy would be 1&3 and 2&4
Awesome Video... I assume when there is a need to pull the server out for hardware upgrades, Extension cords are placed with longer cables?
So satisfying.
Had 6 colors of ethernet cable hanging from to[p down.
The enclosure finished with orange only.
Everything was precut to length as tech did not splice a line.
Watch it in slow-mo and the guy is good with velcro.
Marie Demirjian Preparation is key!
And now we need “1 year after” video too.
How about moving a server? Seems like the cables are too short to move the server out with the rails for maintenance.
Great work !!
So you need to unplug for any hardware change ? Any Cable Management Arms ?
Nice work. I'd be paranoid about plugging back into the wrong ports though 😂
Nice work
Company Moto sugestion:
"Technimove, OCD is Accessibility"
Strangely satisfying
And I have trouble with my stereo cable management
That's pretty and all but what happens when you need to pull out a server? You made the cables so short that the customer would have to disconnect everything first. Why not put cable management arms behind the servers?
Love to see how you do this in a production environment
Noobstick - Easy. The Technimove Transformation Platform (TTP) that will allow the critical services and applications to remain available and online 24/7/365 whilst we do this. A utility-based private cloud platform, it provides infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) during Data Centre transformations or environment re-cabling like this. These bespoke cloud solutions are tailored to ensure service availability, uptime and uninterrupted business operations. 🙂
thanks to virtualization nowadays, just live migrate the VM's to another rack and do 1 rack or a street at a time.
How are those rapid rails going to work now?
Looks great! Whoever let it get that way in the first place should be fired.
This looks like it's just a demo setup anyway.
Depends on how much did it costs at first.
Who ever? This not how it works... In most places when a tech company install something, they also plug some cable, then another company install something difrent, they also plug some cable... And so on... Until this happens.
@@ForWhhY You let random companies plug cables in your network into random ports? Assuming those ports are configured correct (right VLAN, DHCP guard , PoE etc)...
i think this company does wiring for companies who dont have a dedicated tech support team most likley they outsource it to anouther company who sends techs out when need be and probably sends out the wiring company for installs and such which would explain how you server became such a mess if the techs who turn up dont really care about your server being pretty so long as it works
Well it does looks amazing. Try pulling a server out. There isn't much slack in the cables.
And what was the price for that one server rack to be cleaned up? Parts only.
My company has always done racks this way. We do it for serviceability but, it does look neat. Too many tie points and you have to take apart half your shit to re-route a cable though.
Genial queda muy bien.
That's the only way it should be done! Great work!
How much time u spend for fixing the mess?
Timo Mai - 2 mins and 31 seconds. That footage isn’t sped up! 😉
I really want to learn this.
Do you guys have a coaching on how to organise or is this an ad of your services?
Been in Networking for some time now. Just don't understand how it gets like this period. Albeit , only be in SMB and start ups as Networking admin, however as an IT field technician I did survey larger corporate sites , and never saw cabling in such disarray
Did you know at large data centers they snip them instead of going through the hassle to re-cable.
looks real pretty, but seems that it would be a pain to swap out a cable or server
Is it me or the third server from the top has its grey cable not plugged correctly ? :D
How long did that take to finish
Fantastic!
I like the before better.
searched for cable managments on small PC, saw this.
so satisfying
Show.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The real problem comes when you have to work with only a cable size and the short patch is 10cm, and your shortest cable is 1.5m!
Great job mate, very neat, how long before the IT bloke gets to it and messes it up again?
Thank you. We are not sure, hopefully this remains so for quite some time.
Beautiful
OK CZcams...u know how to keep me up at 3AM! staaaahhhhhppppp
Wow the speed on this network must be so much faster now.
Fair play!!
in the "before" situation.....how hard you have to struggle to get that many different color cables? Every time you install a new server you go buy from a different supplier and ask for a new color...........
I've been in IT for 42 years now, but we used to call it communications computer systems back when I started. Your "after" work was the standard back in my military days.
Why would someone consider having you un-screw their cabling? Additions, replacements, moves, and troubleshooting! And yes, it can be done without a total outage.
Good work but would suck when needing to pull a server half way out for testing and cant have it plugged in at the same time!
I was going to say the same thing.. why not put the wire management arms on the servers while you are at it so you can pull your servers without disconnecting the cables?
You can use tempory patch leads for that.
Did Linus Tech Tips do the original cabling job?
Nice work though.
Are those independent PDUs on the right?
I wish there was a trade school for this kind of stuff
Okay just two questions. How much and when can you get started?
Jadi - Jadi, give us a call 😁👍🏼
How am I able to arrange my servers cabinet when I have servers that need to be up 24/7 and there is no redundancy?
I have 4 cabinets where 3 of them that I Installed myself overtime that look very neat while this one (the important one) looks like an absolute mess, the cables are not even labeled! I tried to do some arrangements on it but I am extremely limited, I HAVE to disconnect the cables. What I'm supposed to do?
kay2kid We have a Transformation Platform that will allow your critical services and applications to remain available and online 24/7/365 whilst we do this. A utility-based private cloud platform, it provides infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) during Data Centre transformations or environment re-cabling like. These bespoke cloud solutions are tailored to ensure service availability, uptime and uninterrupted business operations. Call us, we’d be more than happy to help 🙂
Mencoba Cabling untuk pertama kali (tapi boleh dicoba)
cable management 101, make sure the cable length is appropriate for the run it needs to make
cable management 102, if using a longer cable than apprpriate, make sure you have enough room to store the excess cable
cable management 103, take time to make the cable run, and secure the cable along the run.
so easy to go from that nice cabinet to the rats nest. add a cable here, new run there.. sure 2 cables aren't bad but do that 100 times and boom messy. getting the server up/running is what the customer/boss wants. nobody comes back in later to cleam up.
Когда это все работает, и абоненты пострадают, это не так просто как на видео .Я переключал городишко маленький , были кольца, на звезду, это поездка по всем домам, новые кабеля, и чтобы абоненты страдали по минимуму, та ещё задача, а так -видео прикольно
More please 🙏
Please, what is the music... please say someone knows, or remembers - it keeps popping up on videos, and I swear it's from an album I had back in the late 90's... help!
I'm also interested
Blyatiful
let see you slide one of those servers out :)
no zip ties? is the shit. plus the cable ties are course side out? BEAST!
only one rack ?
This is called "it porn".
Ty guys, I'm done :-)
also refferred to as 'cable porn'
Great Asmr Video.
I swear, if you pay that guy enough he will probably cable manager spaghetti and make it look perfect
Yeah, he's not allowed in the office kitchen anymore. You can't leave him alone with last nights leftover spaghetti. All gets very weird...
Just imagine his cable management on his pc (assuming that he has one)
I don't do this type of work, but wouldn't it be prudent to label each cable at both ends before you start?
@@bruceadrien6588 could potentially save a lot of time in the future. How would they label each cable after routing all of them? Seems like that would be difficult
@@andrewwilson8374 I have done it myself on large racks, it's not that hard to label each with proper labels that wrap around, sometimes it's better after too as you know where to put the label where it will be seen easily, whereas if done before you might end up with it to far up/down
Why is everything only orange? Surely some purple,blue,yellow and green cables would be a really good idea.
Depends if its actually needed, i don't know how all this was actually configured, but given only 2 colors and 2 orange and 1 white going into each server, i'd guess something like redundant orange lines going out to switches, that'd be your main and backup lines to the main network and then white lines probably network management or unfiltered Internet in lines or something.
Generally, you only use different colors to designate a cable that is different, could be multiple segmented networks, different colors for different rooms etc, but you don't just throw in random colors usually.
This guy deserves the best salary in whole universe Admit it
@Brad Viviviyal no..
Owner comes in:
WHO THE FUCK MOVED MY CABLES !?!
Teve que refazer todas as vlan's no switch...
Planted, 100%.
Looks good, but when it comes to hot-swapping failed parts (e.g. fans), you have no cable slack to pull the server out without causing downtime.
For that you would need cable arms anyway, dragging cables back and forth through the rack won't work... Those are DL380 G6/7's which have 'friction rails' (meaning no ball bearing) so you have to apply quite a lot of force to pull them out of the rack, meaning a stuck cable will be rammed out of the server complete with its port attached but broken off the motherboard... With so many servers, it would be odd not to have a VMware/Hyper-V cluster so that one or two nodes can always easily be put in maintenance mode and taken offline for repairs etc.
If a failed network card(cable unplugged) causes you downtime, you aren't doing redundancy right. If this is a datacenter then you should be able to take any server offline and never have any downtime.
@@JohnnieTech2 That's not what he said, he said that replacing server parts or performing hardware maintenance will require you to slide the server out of the rack, which you cannot do without detaching all cabling because it doesn't have 1 meter slack for this purpose.
A natural result of detaching networking and power cables would be that the server will be powered off and thus cannot serve...
You can catch this by having failover at server level but you will still lose an entire server for just small issues...
Replacing small components like fans is super rare, even for old servers. Taking a server offline for 15 minutes in a cluster is fuck all.
I'm betting none of these commenters worked on a cluster or in a datacenter before. Unplugging a half dozen network cables takes 20 seconds.
This is what ppl of this planet must to do with your brains.
Yes, just let me shutdown an entire 42U rack full of mission critical equipment for the whole day. It looks like 14 servers, probably hosting 10 to 20 VMs each, so just shutdown around 200 VMs. I would be looking for a new job in the morning if I did that.
If all the cables are exactly the correct length then you end up with a job looking like this. The problem is when you are using standard length cables that increment in length by 500mm (18"). It's also a problem when you need to join two bits of kit and need a 1Mtr cable but you only have 5Mtr ones in stock.
Why server has psu's with different power?
My guess to figure out which is PEM0 and PEM1 and trace the power cable to the PDU easier as each should be on separate one..
Good question - the two psu's are different wattage - what is the point of that?
Виталий Агапов: same question I have. Some bellow talked about the color of the wires, but none seems to realise the 460W vs 750W...
My only guess is for easy identification of which one failed. The system will say something like: #1: 460W: good #2: 750W: failed or #1: 460W: good #2: missing instead of #1: 460W: good #2: 460W: failed... If the psu is equipped with a led, the failed one should be off, but it may still be on, so in this case you have to guess which one is the #1 and which one is the #2... is it #1 2 from the front? or #1 2 from the back? In some case, they may be internally connected with a cable, and they could have been swapped.
Red for UPS or “clean” power
Black for non-UPS or “dirty” power
@@sparkybearbomb533 i'm asking about PSU output power, one is 460W and second is 750W in every server
Looks like you need many different cable lengths to make that work
Ill have them organize my life
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