I like the way you've used the Front, Interior and Back to represent the blades and switches. I'll have to do the same in my chassis racks.
I didn't notice this being mentioned so here's how I track my chassis, very similar just make sure you mount the blade chassis object in both real rack and the rack that represents that chassis. That way you can navigate easily between racks, blades and chassis.
Lets say I have a 16 slot chassis. I've created a rack with 17 units. The top slot is always the chassis server object and then I populate the other slots with blade objects. I also always prefix my rack names that represent a chassis with HD for High Density, type and location then the chassis object name. That way all my chassis racks are grouped together and easy to navigate.
Example chassis Racks: HD vmware SAC1 esx100p HD C7000 SAC1 wbl100p HD LPAR SAC2 uaix100p Ernie On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
I mean each chassis is 2U of rack space and may have 1 or 2 power connections, but holds 4 systems. I guess they are really called multi-node systems instead of blade servers. Emulating a rack for each 2U chassis doesn't seem like a good fit.-Les Lacayo, Luis F wrote:We have some dual height blades, and we just use both of the slots forthem, for example 1 and 9. Luis -----Original Message----- From: racktables-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[mailto:racktables-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Les MikesellSent: Friday, August 14, 2009 11:43 AM To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [racktables-users] Re: BladeCenter Chassis ??? Lacayo, Luis F wrote:Ray, That is not a bad model actually, I kind of like it. We have a lotofenclosures and getting more.. Using Rows for Racks and Racks for Enclosures is a workable solutionforWe are planning to get a bunch of 2U, 4-blade units. Is there some reasonable way to represent something like that?us... I have to think about re-doing my stuff..
