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Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema


From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea+nanog () grid kiae ru>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:42:44 +0300

Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 05:10:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
Whatever you do, please do not use Flag labels on cables… I HATE
THEM. They are a constant source of entanglement and snags. They
often get knocked off as a result or mangled beyond recognition,
rendering them useless.

Hadn't seen that for ages, using Brother P-touch printers for
small amounts of work and Avery Zweckform paper + laser printing
for large cable installations.  This stuff (Avery paper),
  http://computing.kiae.ru/~rea/wiring-porn-2.jpeg
lives already for 5+ years and outlived many replacements of
spine modules (that's InfiniBand fabric) and other operations
without labels being ruined in any way.
-- 
Eygene Ryabinkin, National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be
a violent psychopath who knows where you live.


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