[geeks] Rack Diagrams

[John Core]

We used netbox which is open source to manage several complicated data
centers. Nice reports and graphic displays

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> On Oct 29, 2019, at 10:44 PM, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> o;?Hello all - I'd bet many of us find ourselves drawing out rackmount
> equipment plans in our day jobs, or maybe even in our home labs.  I'm
> interested in what tools people are using to plan rack layouts, both
> "pretty" and "practical".  For practical I use Excel and a lot of cell
> size tweaking.  It's quick once you get a template laid out and are
> used to Excel's copy/cut/paste quirks.  For "pretty", there is Visio,
> but I find it takes many times as long to produce a plan there vs
> Excel.
>
> Does anyone use more professional - or at least purpose-built - tools
> for rack planning?  Something that would generate a report (RUs,
> network ports, power consumption, etc) would be a dream.
>
> OK, back to my Excel diagrams...
>
> j
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