[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!)
> 
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> 
> 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.
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> Some other users have also this problems. Perhaps it works in some
> future version?
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> At last Racktables is a great tool and we are definitely go from our
> old excel “solution” to racktables in the future. 
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> Best regards
> 
>  
> 
> Ronny
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> 
>  
> 
> Ronny Stein
> 
> Sendesystem & Technik | vwd group
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Chicago Public Schools
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ITS/ UNIX Infrastructure
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