Clean Cabling: Backside of a Production UCS Chassis
Fully cabled chassis, note the open and clean airflow when so little cabling is involved.
I had blogged how clean the installation of a chassis is with needing only 4 cables for I/O and 4 power cables. Via twitter someone asked for a pic of this and I realized I did not have one posted. I have added this pic to my Picasa page that contains about 50 UCS pictures (it is the last one).
http://picasaweb.google.com/healthITGuy68/CiscoUCSPictures#
Note how open the airflow is when you only have a few cables to deal with. You can see they were paying attention to this detail on the fabric extenders and where the power plugs into; all of the openings.
You can also see I am only using 2 of the 4 possible ports in the fabric extenders (FEX). The options being 1, 2 or 4 connections per each FEX.
About HealthITGuy
Michael Heil has been working in the healthcare IT field since 1995. His approach to IT has been to look at what makes logical sense, use deduction to determine the answer, maximize your resources and allow your staff to be creative and challenged.
- Member of HIMSS
- Cisco Unified Computing Technical Advisory Board Member
- VMWare vExpert 2009, 2010
- VMWare Users Group Leader, Greensboro, NC
- Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University
- Masters of Science from Michigan State University
