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A look through our selection can help you visualize all of the possibilities, and which would best fit your needs.Choosing 19 rack cabinet, but a few notes in advance …

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Also be sure to put your heaviest equipment at the bottom of the rack so it won’t become unbalanced.Ĭmple carries a full stock of racks and enclosures in many different styles. Overloading a rack can be an expensive disaster – much more expensive than just buying an additional unit. Overloading: Every rack will be rated for how much weight it can support.If you’ll have high-density cabling a floor enclosure will usually be too confining, and if you need to secure your servers from the outside an open rack will be useless. The right rack: The biggest mistake you can make is choosing the wrong rack for your installation.Utilities: There should be enough power nearby for the equipment in the rack, ventilation should be more than adequate and cooling should available if needed.And if you have a lot of high-wattage equipment, it’s safest to spread it between several racks sooner rather than later. You’ll want to place any new racks adjacent or at least close by, so make sure space and utilities will be available. Planning: The location you choose for a rack may be convenient, but think about the possibility of future expansion.

However, there are some basics which should always be considered: The specifics of an installation will largely depend on the space available and the intended use of the equipment. The same type of enclosure is sometimes placed on caster wheels or feet for use as a small floor enclosure. Racks and enclosures for use in smaller offices or at home will usually be wall-mounted, and enclosures with lockable doors are more commonly sold than are ones with an open frame design. Wall enclosures can either be secure cabinets or have an open frame design. They can’t hold as much equipment, so they are not a primary option for most data centers. They’re primarily used in IT installations to save space or to make use of areas where full racks won’t fit. Wall enclosures: As you’ve certainly guessed, these aren’t freestanding they mount to the wall and are much smaller than floor racks.These racks aren’t as secure, of course, but they have much more room for cables and provide easy access for technicians. That means some servers or equipment (especially heavy equipment) won’t be able to be mounted in an two-rail open frame rack without adapters. There’s one other major difference between the two an open frame rack may have only two vertical rails, as opposed to the four rails always found in a floor enclosure. Open frame racks: It’s pretty easy to visualize an open-frame rack – it’s the frame of a floor enclosure without doors or walls.Floor enclosures provide maximum security for the servers and equipment mounted inside but they typically provide less room for cables, and access for maintenance is difficult because of the front and rear doors. The racks are vented and can accommodate fans if desired, and will usually have caster wheels (so they can be moved easily) as well as adjustable feet that allow them to be leveled once in their permanent location.

Floor enclosures: These freestanding, solid rack cabinets have lockable doors in both the front and back and often have removable sides.

The server racks used in data centers fall into three basic categories.

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The enclosures used in large data centers will often have other built-in rack accessories, ranging from power strips, cable management systems and shelves, to patch panels and ventilation fans. The standard computer rack has vertical rails that are 19” apart, the same width as a standard server or other rack-mounted equipment. Those increments are referred to as “rack units,” often called “units” and abbreviated as “U.” So the most common server rack, a 42U, will allow the mounting of 42 1U servers – or any other equipment totaling 42U, such as 38 1U servers and two 2U switches – leaving some extra space at the top and bottom. But server and rack sizes are standardized, with the industry defining a rack’s size in terms of the number of servers it can hold.Ī computer server is a bit less than 1¾ inches tall, so a rack’s vertical rails will allow the mounting of servers, one above another, in height increments of 1¾ inches. The physical height, width and depth of a rack will normally be listed in its specifications.

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