I’m shaking my fist at the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). It’s making me let go of a Data Center solution that worked well in the past.
I worked for years on Cisco’s team that designed and managed our Data Centers. In the early 2000s, hardware compaction strongly influenced our physical design. Every few weeks it seemed a different manufacturer debuted a new server smaller and more powerful than its predecessor. We could fit more gear into our cabinets and so found we had a lot more cabling to manage. This was especially challenging in legacy Data Centers with cables routed below the under-floor plenum. More cabling meant less airflow.
Tags: cable management, Cisco, coc-data-center, data center, datacenterdeconstructed, UCS, unified computing system
