[racktables-users] AW: Re: racktable features: vms, blades, rackoverview

Hi Luis

 

thanks for your examples. I tried out and implement it for our racktables.

 

 

Ronny

 

Von: racktables-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:racktables-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Luis Fernando 
Lacayo
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. März 2009 14:47
An: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: [racktables-users] Re: racktable features: vms, blades, rackoverview

 

Hi Ronny, 

Blades have been a concern for us a  we have over 14 racks full of blades..   

What we are doing is the we create mini racks.  We have over 350 Dell 1955 and 
m600 blades, so we create  14 u rack for the 1955's and 20u rack for the m600.

Our naming convention then takes over. 

For rack BI-07, which is a 42u rack full of Dell 1955's  we create 6 mini racks 
(14u).  Then we name the racks BI-07-01, BI-07-08, BI-07-15, BI-07-22, 
BI-07-29, and BI-07-36.  The last part is U number of the bottom of the 
enclosure.  Now you ask, if that enclosure only has 10 blades, why a 14u mini 
rack, the other 4 are used for the Cisco 3032 switches.  It is not the 
prettiest solution but it works for us.  

Now if there was a way to put racks in racks...   that would solve our problem, 
but I am so confident on the guys who are working on racktables that it is only 
a matter of time, before they come up with a workable solution...... 

thanks for the hard work guys..

Luis 

  


On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 10:31 +0100, Ronny Stein wrote: 

Hi,

 

we use racktables for our server rooms too. In the past we manage the overview 
with some excel sheets (>10!)

 

At the moment all our racks are filled in. But there are some features we 
missing. So we patched some values in racktables:

 

-         To Manage virtual machines (we do it with the “hosted on” mod and 
some tag´s to see vmclient-vmhost)

-         To Manage blade servers (at this time no usable solution)

-         Get a formatted printable output from the rack overview with some 
detail informations, like dell-tag and 1 manage ip. We patched the 
interfaces.xx and rename the static-attributes to our values. It works but we 
must write some ip informations twice to racktables, not nice.

 

 

Some other users have also this problems. Perhaps it works in some future 
version?

 

 

At last Racktables is a great tool and we are definitely go from our old excel 
“solution” to racktables in the future. 

 

Best regards

 

Ronny

 

 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

 

Ronny Stein

Sendesystem & Technik | vwd group

 





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