[racktables-users] Re: Horizontal Racks?

  • From: Jason Hamilton <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:25:22 -0400

I'm not sure if you're asking for example of datacenters or example of
the type of rack ;-)

Basically a bread rack is used:
http://www.treehugger.com/data-center-t01.jpg

And as you see, standard mid-size towers are used instead of rack-mount
hardware.

-Jason

Denis Ovsienko wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:48:12 -0400 Jason Hamilton wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm curious to know what methods for organizing horizontal racks have
>> been employed (if any).
>>
>> My first thought is to turn each row of a horizontal rack on it's side
>> and go left->right:top->bottom such that it's now a vertical.
>>
>> Is there a plan to implement a native option for this in the future? I'm
>> familiar with several DC's that use horizontal racks in areas that
>> cannot accommodate the density requirements (power, cooling, etc.) of
>> vertical racks.
>>     
>
> Can I have some examples of such?
>
>   

-- 

-Jason 

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