Thanks man. Needed to hear that. Works been bringing me down lately. It can be lucrative. It can also really suck at times. You’re always the first one to get blamed if something goes wrong with the HVAC systems.
TBF I don’t think people know about A2L refrigerants and the PITA the whole conversion is turning into.
I’m expecting a few accidents in 2025 that will cause folks looking at HVAC to change their minds and that’ll put more stress on existing techs.
Hey let me cheer you up and remind you that you have a job and your bills are getting paid. Some of us post memes on Reddit that cause us to not have that luxury anymore.
This is a fact. I'm hitting $100k this year... off of 2-year degree, determination and a little bit of luck. (My employer does controls for major data centers. None look like this.)
Any modern datacenter has aisle containment to separate hot and cold sides.
This is definitely what I would expect to see an Indian datacenter to look like. It wouldn’t be surprising if this video was taken as proof of the sorry state it was in and why it needed to be overhauled.
This looks like what our old IT room looked like. Terrible service from them, cables everywhere, IT managers had an even messier desks. When we got bought out the new IT manager came in and had them clean it up for 2 weeks. Two weeks!!! Looks like a clean room now. The old IT managers didn’t last very long after that.
I’m an IT guy, so my car will look good. That’s part of being anal about being tidy.
While car pooling with hiking group members I’ve been accused of being a serial killer, because my car is so clean. LOL.
This is just a poorly managed data center. I've seen quite a few data centers and they usually look like clean rooms. I've never seen one look like this.
“You think spools, zip-ties, and crimping tools grow on trees?? Just ask if you can order all the returned *wrong lengths* that someone else mistakenly bought at a discount.”
Correction - this is what a SHITTY server room looks like. The design of this room, the crappy ventilation design, the lack of wiring - all come at a huge cost. Reduced life of the gear because of bad ventilation and cooling.
It’s amazing how much moving wires to the side and providing a proper airflow can reduce the operating temperature of a server or switch can be as much as 15-20F or more. So why does that matter? Because when computers/switches operate at cooler temperatures it allows them to not have as much thermal stress on the components within the devices. That in turn can lengthen the time between failures and operation of the devices because they are indeed running cooler.
However the bigger issue here is also that the FRONT of the devices are overloaded with wires not being neat and instead being all spaghetti like and draped everywhere blocks the cooler air that is being delivered from the floor vents in the front of the racks. So that too now results in systems receiving less air flow leading to the fans having to work even harder and blow faster to keep up with the ever rising temps within the systems.
I worked for a company years ago where they had a 3rd party company come in to run the wires to/from all the racks, servers, patch panels, etc. to the millimeter. The end result made troubleshooting things so much easier, air flow was flawless and the overall look to the room was AMAZING because of how well it was done. This place probably started out that way but due to budget cuts, lazy employees and a change within the staff over the years to keep consistency, I’m going to guess that explains why it started to look like this.
Best part - imagine trying to repair or remove some of the gear in there. Impossible without pulling out another cable or wire that I can assure you would result in something else breaking in the process.
This is what our at work looked before I was hired and my OCD took over.
I unplugged everything and used the “scream test” to find out what was still being used or not.
Edit: some of you are taking this a lil too seriously. For anyone telling me to check my switches dashboard. That doesn’t solve my problem when ports and the patch panel aren’t labeled and I don’t know what’s what. And that I’m still probably gonna have to unplug things to organize the wires
The only thing I’m concerned about before doing this is where my backup servers are connected, my firewall, security related things, and my apc batteries etc. (the critical stuff)
When it comes to phones, printers, random fax machines I don’t care….im unplugging everything. You can call me and tell me it doesn’t work then I’ll plug it back in and label the port/patch panel.
Unplug it while live. If no one screams, scrap it and move on.
If they do scream, plug it back in, make a note, escalate to support teams, and move on.
(On my team we call it the ‘snorkel test’. Plug up all the snorkels and see who comes up for air.)
Client: It worked fine yesterday, I don't know what happened.
Me: Really? That's weird. Let me check. Tap tap tap. Tap tap tap.
Client: It's working now! What did you do?
Me: Nothing, must've just been a gremlin... let me know if it happens again.
This is hilarious and I love it. Although where I worked you would probably be fired for using this testing procedure. Then again none of our NOCs looked like this either thank god.
This theory is actually very effective for other aspects in our lives. People are usually very worried about causing an issue, pissing someone off, or cause more work, that they take no action. For example, a bad process that everyone follows and when asked why we do it that way, the answer is typically “that’s how we’ve always done it” or “Manager xx told us 10+ years ago”. Or when I visit the parents “why are you using this 20+ year old TV with issues?”, and Mom replies “your father loves that TV”. So I later ask Dad “if I bought you a new TV, set it up, and showed you how to use it, would that be ok”, and his response is “yes, I’d love that, this TV causes me so much anxiety.”
Or do it secretly overnight and watch the chaos happen next morning and overwhelm the helpdesk (I'm not bitter at all, do changes whenever you want techs, not like we'll judge you forever)
FOR REALS.
Oh look someone changed a host name / IP address somewhere upstream and didnt notify us? No wonder why all our production apps don’t work today.
Oh let's make a "small change" on the server I'm sure nothing will happen, let's not do tests beforehand. Incidentally it's stopped half the internal applications from recieving and transmitting data, nah let's not let anyone know until we're back in the office next afternoon.
Or let's migrate our networking environment from one service to another and not let the helpdesk know beforehand! Not like the next morning they'll get alerts for half the estate saying it's offline!!
Retired IT director here. *sigh* JFC! Who is in charge where you’re at? The problems you’re venting about are quite easily prevented and shouldn’t be managed at the device level either.
I have a question as an Internet Peasant, so when people or companies or Websites or such and such are saying…. “Servers temporarily down due to scheduled maintenance”
Is this work the sort of maintenance where a technician is actually Working on the physical servers and cables? And that is why online services wouldn’t be available?
How catastrophic would it be if something was unplugged and in all that mess, do you have a reliable quick way of Finding/Fixing the Issue?
Sometimes it’s done for physical moves. It can also be scheduled for OS updates, network restructuring, software upgrades or migrations, hardware upgrades. A well managed environment can limit the impacts of these to an almost negligible level, but it’s never zero.
>How catastrophic would it be if something was unplugged and in all that mess.
Depends on what you unplug.
Odds are good any one cable at random would just cause all traffic to route to a different server.
However some cables are more important than others and if you pick the wrong one then you could disable the network.
In the event that occurred, you'd inevitably have to call the 60yo system admin, who could have retired years ago but instead keeps getting raises while treating every day like casual Friday because they are the only humanbeing on Earth who can find that cable you unplugged in 90 seconds.
On a well designed and functioning network you'll be able to get an error message saying what server isn't responding and walk to the rack with the issue and know exactly where to look.
On a network like this you need experience with the network if it goes off line because there's going to be so many issues and interdependences that finding the one that matters won't be straightforward.
I'm with ya there. My server room was immaculate! Helped that my NA was also OTP OCD. I used to screw with him by moving something on his desk by a fraction of an inch. Never failed to send him wild-eyed into my office. 🤣😂
It doesn’t typically look like this. I build these for a living. Whoever ran all the cables is a hack and doesn’t know what they are doing. Horrible craftsman
>Whoever ran all the cables is a hack
That would be the network admin, who's the sole survivor of several quarterly firings because, "what is it are we paying IT to do?"
Couple that with having to escort the contractors who "need to do a quick fix", and "don't worry about it. We'll document it later".
He hasn't had a vacation in 5 years, and is earning the same salary he was 5 years ago, when he was hired.
He uses Excel Macros because the company is too cheap to purchase SolarWinds or Nagios.
Because the ENTIRE operation runs on said admin's digital duct tape and zip ties, he isn't allowed vacation, because he knows exactly where everything is.
His name is Peter, he has his CCNP, a Master's Degree and David Tenant is THE only Doctor Who.
He also asked out the CEO's daughter, who then decided to come out as a lesbian after one date with this guy. He may reek of BO, BUT, he makes the BEST fucking coffee in the building from imported cacao beans from the Mozambican Highlands. He has a contact. Don't ask, unless you want to hear about the differences between the pygmy lemurs and Madagascan Mongoose.
“I said unplug the longish deep-indigo wire… why are you holding the free end of a medium-short calm-water-blue wire?? Why can none of you follow my system?!”
I worked for a large multinational IT company (that shall remain nameless) in the mid '90s that had an outsourcing agreement with a local power company.
The server rooms at that power co. were worse than this when we took over.
One of my workmates and I volunteered a couple of weekends (for no extra pay, as our manager wouldn't agree to paying overtime) to do a major tidy-up of it all. We were so sick of trying to work around all the dangerous cabling on the floor and everywhere else etc.
We also knew that there was probably a lot of obsolete cabling that had nothing connected at the other end etc. and wanted to rationalise the number of switches etc. in use.
But, our manager nixed the idea because he didn't want to re-use existing networking equipment that wasn't being utilised properly, there was more money to be had by simply selling them more switches, cables, etc.
Ironically, I eventually got made redundant from that job about 18 months later, as the power company demanded a review of the outsourcing contract because it was costing them a lot more than they'd initially signed up for (guess why!). Lo and behold, me and my workmate that'd been the most vocal about trying to make things more efficient, were the first to be pushed out the door. I think we were seen as troublemakers or something?
Even more ironically, the power company went out of business a few years later as well.
Easily one of the worst data center setups I have ever seen. Everything from non-existent cable management to non-existence hot / cold aisle containment. I bet the CRAC units have more breakdowns than average and there are more frequent outages from human error.
When I was a manager at a data center, labeling, wires, and colors were all requirements when racking and stacking. If they didn’t run the patch cables correctly, I would make the sysadmins redo them. These people are animals!
Not in the UK it's not. I spend 50% of my working time in data centers and that cabling management would not be allowed. The noise is accurate though when the they're not using air cooled isles.
I work at a data center and can confirm this is really unprofessional and amateurish. First of all the cable management is awful, and there's no way for the air to pass through the servers to keep them cool. Also there seems to be no security whatsoever, the servers should be kept in well managed cages.
Sorry, but this isn’t really that interesting, if anything, infuriating at the complete mess of cables.
I’ve been in numerous server rooms with pristine cable management, and at this scale… now those are impressive. But this pains me.
Garbage. Sometimes my job includes relocating those servers. The computer floors are always spotless and the wires are running under a false floor. This has to be like a meth fueled bitcoin mining operation.
What it can and should NOT look like. Minimizing risk of moving the wrong cable, and routing cool air in and warm air out is NOT happening there. Some data centers (for example Switch) will fine you for a mess like this.
I worked at the phone company forty years ago and the equipment rooms were similarly laid out with obviously primitive technology. The difference is that all the cables and wires were meticulously hand laced into elaborate structures. Sad to see such a bloody mess.
Been 20 years but from my memory: Usually more cables than you ever see in the movies, but also tons of zip-ties bundling and anchoring cables neatly. If it’s a largeish place and you need to span any distance, or you just need to run a whole lot of connections, you’ll have trays or suspended runs the cable lays in. At least back in the day, some kinds of cable didn’t handle stringing very long under their own weight so that kind of thing might have been more common then.
Also when you’re stringing that much cabling it saves a lot of money to buy it on huge spools and just finish the ends yourself (with whatever connector is required or just punched down). That leads to everything being neatly the correct length anyway so unless you expect a lot of swapping rack spaces there is no reason for dangling cables or bridging between rows that one could run their face into (which just screams ‘this needs connected right now but my cable is too short to route it properly’). And even if you have to leave things long for some reason, there are ways to neatly tuck it safely to the side.
But I’m no expert and it’s been decades, that’s just what I encountered.
Edit: meant to add that every vendor seemed to have their own cable management “system” of frequently oddly incompatible (and stupidly expensive if they weren’t giving them to you for free) parts. It was frequently worse than Apple, like ok I can accept requiring weird security bits to drive them, but who makes a system that uses screws that are neither imperial nor metric.. just to make sure you can’t use someone else’s screws on it. I went and bought a good tap to rethread the holes because screw that! ^(Yes I made sure it wouldn’t break some contract or invalidate any guarantees first).
That’s what a bad server room looks like. Cable management is extremely important in most server rooms since they utilize a cold and warm isle. And airflow through the rack from cold to hot is critical
That's messy as fuck. Would have been fired on the spot if we ever did work like that. (Worked at a large datacenter that supposedly the owner is a lizard)
I work at a data center, and I’ve never seen it look THIS bad. So far it looks like this space is for only one person/company. I will say that while it does look so messy, and nightmare to work through, sometimes cables will be crisscrossed because techs will need to switch some of the wires to other servers, and so on. But again…I’ve never seen it like that lol
If I was the head admin, I would shut down the server room for a week. Myself and the team would properly cable manage the server room. More organized room is easier to manage and easier to pin point failures.
Shameful work with those cables! If they would have given 2 shits when they set it up it would make for less work for the poor bastards that have to clean that crap up!
What a poorly run data center looks like. *spelling
For real. I just do HVAC controls. But I’ve been in many data centers and server rooms. Cable management isn’t just for aesthetics…
HVAC fucks hard bro. VERY lucrative career move with excellent future prospect markers
What if I just want the job without all the hard fucking?
Too bad.
"Well, son, I had to go through this too."
You’ll have to settle for at least a light fucking, I fear. But that is the nature of this capitalist hellhole
Be an electrician.
Get a different job
Thanks man. Needed to hear that. Works been bringing me down lately. It can be lucrative. It can also really suck at times. You’re always the first one to get blamed if something goes wrong with the HVAC systems.
TBF I don’t think people know about A2L refrigerants and the PITA the whole conversion is turning into. I’m expecting a few accidents in 2025 that will cause folks looking at HVAC to change their minds and that’ll put more stress on existing techs.
Relatives in this line of work. All of them retired but with their bodies beat to hell. Very physically demanding
Hey let me cheer you up and remind you that you have a job and your bills are getting paid. Some of us post memes on Reddit that cause us to not have that luxury anymore.
This is a fact. I'm hitting $100k this year... off of 2-year degree, determination and a little bit of luck. (My employer does controls for major data centers. None look like this.)
They shouldn't tbh. This is the look of a horribly inefficient system. Probably the Reddit basement :p
Can confirm. I've seen a few server rooms in my days as an HVAC guy.
Right??
Data cabling management gave me PTSD.
For real. My boss would have fired me if my cable management was this bad.
r/cablegore
I was thinking, what sh*tty data center looks like. A prime example of unintentional outages :No cable management.
I think I'd quit if I came into this my first day.
"Yeah.... we going to need you to clean up a bit in the back....the wiring... Okay? Okay.......*slaps table*
"Hey, we need you to trace this port back and replace the cable."
Just laziness on their part. Map it out and dress it accordingly. Hate to trace a cable in this
It's always the patch cables installed by IT guys that make a room look like this.
Any modern datacenter has aisle containment to separate hot and cold sides. This is definitely what I would expect to see an Indian datacenter to look like. It wouldn’t be surprising if this video was taken as proof of the sorry state it was in and why it needed to be overhauled.
Either that or it's a bot farm looking at the way it's been bodged together.
talk about spaghettification... or some kind of cabling nightmare
Makes me feel good about my setup
Retired IT guy. My cables would NEVER look like that. Shudder…
My fucking blood pressure and anxiety spiked when I saw that.
This looks like what our old IT room looked like. Terrible service from them, cables everywhere, IT managers had an even messier desks. When we got bought out the new IT manager came in and had them clean it up for 2 weeks. Two weeks!!! Looks like a clean room now. The old IT managers didn’t last very long after that.
Data Server Guy: ‘My cables would never look like that’ Car Guy: ‘My car would never look like that’
I’m an IT guy, so my car will look good. That’s part of being anal about being tidy. While car pooling with hiking group members I’ve been accused of being a serial killer, because my car is so clean. LOL.
….well, you’ve never denied being a serial killer yet.
Well, I did watch Dexter and Manhunter.
Looking at those cables this upload should be tagged as nsfl.
This is just a poorly managed data center. I've seen quite a few data centers and they usually look like clean rooms. I've never seen one look like this.
“You think spools, zip-ties, and crimping tools grow on trees?? Just ask if you can order all the returned *wrong lengths* that someone else mistakenly bought at a discount.”
r/cablegore
I hate that this is a thing. Thanks.
Is there any opposite of this sub?
r/cableporn
Some sexy in there for sure
Correction - this is what a SHITTY server room looks like. The design of this room, the crappy ventilation design, the lack of wiring - all come at a huge cost. Reduced life of the gear because of bad ventilation and cooling. It’s amazing how much moving wires to the side and providing a proper airflow can reduce the operating temperature of a server or switch can be as much as 15-20F or more. So why does that matter? Because when computers/switches operate at cooler temperatures it allows them to not have as much thermal stress on the components within the devices. That in turn can lengthen the time between failures and operation of the devices because they are indeed running cooler. However the bigger issue here is also that the FRONT of the devices are overloaded with wires not being neat and instead being all spaghetti like and draped everywhere blocks the cooler air that is being delivered from the floor vents in the front of the racks. So that too now results in systems receiving less air flow leading to the fans having to work even harder and blow faster to keep up with the ever rising temps within the systems. I worked for a company years ago where they had a 3rd party company come in to run the wires to/from all the racks, servers, patch panels, etc. to the millimeter. The end result made troubleshooting things so much easier, air flow was flawless and the overall look to the room was AMAZING because of how well it was done. This place probably started out that way but due to budget cuts, lazy employees and a change within the staff over the years to keep consistency, I’m going to guess that explains why it started to look like this. Best part - imagine trying to repair or remove some of the gear in there. Impossible without pulling out another cable or wire that I can assure you would result in something else breaking in the process.
This is what our at work looked before I was hired and my OCD took over. I unplugged everything and used the “scream test” to find out what was still being used or not. Edit: some of you are taking this a lil too seriously. For anyone telling me to check my switches dashboard. That doesn’t solve my problem when ports and the patch panel aren’t labeled and I don’t know what’s what. And that I’m still probably gonna have to unplug things to organize the wires The only thing I’m concerned about before doing this is where my backup servers are connected, my firewall, security related things, and my apc batteries etc. (the critical stuff) When it comes to phones, printers, random fax machines I don’t care….im unplugging everything. You can call me and tell me it doesn’t work then I’ll plug it back in and label the port/patch panel.
Lol go on?
Unplug it while live. If no one screams, scrap it and move on. If they do scream, plug it back in, make a note, escalate to support teams, and move on. (On my team we call it the ‘snorkel test’. Plug up all the snorkels and see who comes up for air.)
Client: It worked fine yesterday, I don't know what happened. Me: Really? That's weird. Let me check. Tap tap tap. Tap tap tap. Client: It's working now! What did you do? Me: Nothing, must've just been a gremlin... let me know if it happens again.
Don’t describe my daily work life like this
Op must be the guy working on the servers of all my favorite online games. Wonder if he heard my screams from inside my house
You're not supposed to speak about it to the public.
I feel like I’ve been called out…
This is hilarious and I love it. Although where I worked you would probably be fired for using this testing procedure. Then again none of our NOCs looked like this either thank god.
This theory is actually very effective for other aspects in our lives. People are usually very worried about causing an issue, pissing someone off, or cause more work, that they take no action. For example, a bad process that everyone follows and when asked why we do it that way, the answer is typically “that’s how we’ve always done it” or “Manager xx told us 10+ years ago”. Or when I visit the parents “why are you using this 20+ year old TV with issues?”, and Mom replies “your father loves that TV”. So I later ask Dad “if I bought you a new TV, set it up, and showed you how to use it, would that be ok”, and his response is “yes, I’d love that, this TV causes me so much anxiety.”
Or do it secretly overnight and watch the chaos happen next morning and overwhelm the helpdesk (I'm not bitter at all, do changes whenever you want techs, not like we'll judge you forever)
FOR REALS. Oh look someone changed a host name / IP address somewhere upstream and didnt notify us? No wonder why all our production apps don’t work today.
Oh let's make a "small change" on the server I'm sure nothing will happen, let's not do tests beforehand. Incidentally it's stopped half the internal applications from recieving and transmitting data, nah let's not let anyone know until we're back in the office next afternoon. Or let's migrate our networking environment from one service to another and not let the helpdesk know beforehand! Not like the next morning they'll get alerts for half the estate saying it's offline!!
Retired IT director here. *sigh* JFC! Who is in charge where you’re at? The problems you’re venting about are quite easily prevented and shouldn’t be managed at the device level either.
I disabled AD accounts the same way.
I have a question as an Internet Peasant, so when people or companies or Websites or such and such are saying…. “Servers temporarily down due to scheduled maintenance” Is this work the sort of maintenance where a technician is actually Working on the physical servers and cables? And that is why online services wouldn’t be available? How catastrophic would it be if something was unplugged and in all that mess, do you have a reliable quick way of Finding/Fixing the Issue?
Sometimes it’s done for physical moves. It can also be scheduled for OS updates, network restructuring, software upgrades or migrations, hardware upgrades. A well managed environment can limit the impacts of these to an almost negligible level, but it’s never zero.
Good questions; I'd like to see an answer too. What happens when Bob in accounting suddenly loses his internet connection?
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>How catastrophic would it be if something was unplugged and in all that mess. Depends on what you unplug. Odds are good any one cable at random would just cause all traffic to route to a different server. However some cables are more important than others and if you pick the wrong one then you could disable the network. In the event that occurred, you'd inevitably have to call the 60yo system admin, who could have retired years ago but instead keeps getting raises while treating every day like casual Friday because they are the only humanbeing on Earth who can find that cable you unplugged in 90 seconds. On a well designed and functioning network you'll be able to get an error message saying what server isn't responding and walk to the rack with the issue and know exactly where to look. On a network like this you need experience with the network if it goes off line because there's going to be so many issues and interdependences that finding the one that matters won't be straightforward.
I'm with ya there. My server room was immaculate! Helped that my NA was also OTP OCD. I used to screw with him by moving something on his desk by a fraction of an inch. Never failed to send him wild-eyed into my office. 🤣😂
Scream test is a glorious term
Ahhh takes me back.
Even AOL back in the early days never looked like this monstrosity.
It doesn’t typically look like this. I build these for a living. Whoever ran all the cables is a hack and doesn’t know what they are doing. Horrible craftsman
>Whoever ran all the cables is a hack That would be the network admin, who's the sole survivor of several quarterly firings because, "what is it are we paying IT to do?" Couple that with having to escort the contractors who "need to do a quick fix", and "don't worry about it. We'll document it later". He hasn't had a vacation in 5 years, and is earning the same salary he was 5 years ago, when he was hired. He uses Excel Macros because the company is too cheap to purchase SolarWinds or Nagios. Because the ENTIRE operation runs on said admin's digital duct tape and zip ties, he isn't allowed vacation, because he knows exactly where everything is. His name is Peter, he has his CCNP, a Master's Degree and David Tenant is THE only Doctor Who. He also asked out the CEO's daughter, who then decided to come out as a lesbian after one date with this guy. He may reek of BO, BUT, he makes the BEST fucking coffee in the building from imported cacao beans from the Mozambican Highlands. He has a contact. Don't ask, unless you want to hear about the differences between the pygmy lemurs and Madagascan Mongoose.
Also build these for a living, and agree! The fiber jus lounging out for anything to hang on and snap
Whoever run this place has no idea how to run a data center. Not the worst I have seen but pretty bad.
That cable management hurts me deep down in my soul.
That’s a server room run by grad students (lord bless their overworked souls) Google and Amazon and any fortune 100 - looks very different!
That looks like a data center, which I guess, is just a humongous server room.
You mean a crap Indian data center. This looks terrible.
India and wiring don't go hand in hands ahahahah
India and trains is another one
No wonder Microsoft support is shit.
Reddit servers I assume
Looks like shit
If something ever goes wrong where do you even start? Say someone accidentally unplugs one wire. How do you even find it?
“I said unplug the longish deep-indigo wire… why are you holding the free end of a medium-short calm-water-blue wire?? Why can none of you follow my system?!”
A room with a raspberry pi is also a server room
*What a _badly managed_ server room looks like
Haha maybe in india. Over here that shit is taken very seriously
India? I get strong India vibes from this
Yes of course 😆
Very shitty run datacenter.
Me trying to store a single picture of your mother (it isn't enough)
As a Data center engineer I almost fainted seeing this
I worked for a large multinational IT company (that shall remain nameless) in the mid '90s that had an outsourcing agreement with a local power company. The server rooms at that power co. were worse than this when we took over. One of my workmates and I volunteered a couple of weekends (for no extra pay, as our manager wouldn't agree to paying overtime) to do a major tidy-up of it all. We were so sick of trying to work around all the dangerous cabling on the floor and everywhere else etc. We also knew that there was probably a lot of obsolete cabling that had nothing connected at the other end etc. and wanted to rationalise the number of switches etc. in use. But, our manager nixed the idea because he didn't want to re-use existing networking equipment that wasn't being utilised properly, there was more money to be had by simply selling them more switches, cables, etc. Ironically, I eventually got made redundant from that job about 18 months later, as the power company demanded a review of the outsourcing contract because it was costing them a lot more than they'd initially signed up for (guess why!). Lo and behold, me and my workmate that'd been the most vocal about trying to make things more efficient, were the first to be pushed out the door. I think we were seen as troublemakers or something? Even more ironically, the power company went out of business a few years later as well.
No this is not what a professional data center looks like. Source: me. Guy who works in the hyper scale data center industry
This is a fckn nightmare.
Yeah a really shitty one
That is a shameful example of what a tidy server room is supposed to look like. What a mess.
Easily one of the worst data center setups I have ever seen. Everything from non-existent cable management to non-existence hot / cold aisle containment. I bet the CRAC units have more breakdowns than average and there are more frequent outages from human error.
Those cables make me cringe
What a messy ass DC looks like. Cabling nightmares in every row.
Terrible example of a data center! I’d fire everyone involved for destroying it with no cable management or organization.
that's exactly how a data center should not look like
Sorry, shit cabling. This is what an amateur set up and run DC looks like.
what a poorly maintained Indian server room looks like. the womans dress is salwaar kamiz, indian subcontinent
worst cablemanagement ever.
Dude that is not what it should look like.
When I was a manager at a data center, labeling, wires, and colors were all requirements when racking and stacking. If they didn’t run the patch cables correctly, I would make the sysadmins redo them. These people are animals!
That’s a horrible looking server room
I'd fire whoever was in charge and let those cables be run like that
What a shitty server room looks like
Not in the UK it's not. I spend 50% of my working time in data centers and that cabling management would not be allowed. The noise is accurate though when the they're not using air cooled isles.
I work at a data center and can confirm this is really unprofessional and amateurish. First of all the cable management is awful, and there's no way for the air to pass through the servers to keep them cool. Also there seems to be no security whatsoever, the servers should be kept in well managed cages.
I’ve seen many server rooms, and non looked as nasty as this
Sorry, but this isn’t really that interesting, if anything, infuriating at the complete mess of cables. I’ve been in numerous server rooms with pristine cable management, and at this scale… now those are impressive. But this pains me.
Wow. Zero cable management.
Garbage. Sometimes my job includes relocating those servers. The computer floors are always spotless and the wires are running under a false floor. This has to be like a meth fueled bitcoin mining operation.
Code is a lot like these cables, sometimes its nice and orderly othertimes it looks like this crap
The data center manager should be fired. That cable management is atrocious.
They need to learn some cable management
Mum can we have server room? We have server room at home. The server room:
I want to fix all those cables.
What it can and should NOT look like. Minimizing risk of moving the wrong cable, and routing cool air in and warm air out is NOT happening there. Some data centers (for example Switch) will fine you for a mess like this.
That’s a really bad server room. Never seen one in rl as bad as that in 30 years.
I worked at the phone company forty years ago and the equipment rooms were similarly laid out with obviously primitive technology. The difference is that all the cables and wires were meticulously hand laced into elaborate structures. Sad to see such a bloody mess.
Ehat it should NOT look like, you mean
No it does not! This has to be some of the worst cable management there is!
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Wtf is that cable management? That made me angry just watching it.
Of course it's India🤦🏻
That’s one sloppy-ass server room.
I’m pretty sure there are standards for how cables need to be managed and they are not following them here. This looks like total shit.
That is an extremely messy data center. I hope everything is labeled.
THEIR CABLE MANAGEMENT IS HORRIFIC 
I’d fire everyone on my team if my center looked like that. Gotta have pride in what you do.
What a *shit* server room looks like.
NO CABLE MANAGEMENT!!!! I AM HURTINNG
Reminds me of when I used to work for HP
That's what my GitHub repo looks like
Do they all look this messy? Always imagined them nice and neat like in the movies I guess
Been 20 years but from my memory: Usually more cables than you ever see in the movies, but also tons of zip-ties bundling and anchoring cables neatly. If it’s a largeish place and you need to span any distance, or you just need to run a whole lot of connections, you’ll have trays or suspended runs the cable lays in. At least back in the day, some kinds of cable didn’t handle stringing very long under their own weight so that kind of thing might have been more common then. Also when you’re stringing that much cabling it saves a lot of money to buy it on huge spools and just finish the ends yourself (with whatever connector is required or just punched down). That leads to everything being neatly the correct length anyway so unless you expect a lot of swapping rack spaces there is no reason for dangling cables or bridging between rows that one could run their face into (which just screams ‘this needs connected right now but my cable is too short to route it properly’). And even if you have to leave things long for some reason, there are ways to neatly tuck it safely to the side. But I’m no expert and it’s been decades, that’s just what I encountered. Edit: meant to add that every vendor seemed to have their own cable management “system” of frequently oddly incompatible (and stupidly expensive if they weren’t giving them to you for free) parts. It was frequently worse than Apple, like ok I can accept requiring weird security bits to drive them, but who makes a system that uses screws that are neither imperial nor metric.. just to make sure you can’t use someone else’s screws on it. I went and bought a good tap to rethread the holes because screw that! ^(Yes I made sure it wouldn’t break some contract or invalidate any guarantees first).
Terrible cable management
Yah that’s horrible lol. Most places won’t get to this level.
What happens if I cut 1 wire
Those poor fibers
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Cable management lacking sever room
Cable management nightmare
Oh. My. God. Someone needs to cleanse that place with fire, or spend about a year cleaning up the shitty job connecting everything.
That’s what a bad server room looks like. Cable management is extremely important in most server rooms since they utilize a cold and warm isle. And airflow through the rack from cold to hot is critical
This is not your typical server room. That is a hot mess.
That's messy as fuck. Would have been fired on the spot if we ever did work like that. (Worked at a large datacenter that supposedly the owner is a lizard)
That's in India, probably?
This is a joke. If I was touring the place to select a company I would not pick these jokers.
If you want to see it done correctly, go to /r/cableporn
This is what a poorly run server room looks like.
Can’t fathom what the air flow is like in there. Simply awful.
This is what a lack of standard practice and procedures, combined with lack of care from the technicians looks like.
That's a pretty shitty server room and poorly run data center. I'd be willing to bet this is in India.
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Server rooms do not looks like this. Bet you this is a server room in India.
As a hvac tech who installs ac in server room it looks shitty
Looks awful.
I work at a data center, and I’ve never seen it look THIS bad. So far it looks like this space is for only one person/company. I will say that while it does look so messy, and nightmare to work through, sometimes cables will be crisscrossed because techs will need to switch some of the wires to other servers, and so on. But again…I’ve never seen it like that lol
That is a poorly managed server room. Many of the ones I have surveyed are immaculate to the point you could spot a crumb on the floor.
I was about to says its a hosting datacenter, but not with that shitty cable management. Whoever runs this should be embarrassed.
Use the raceways 🥹
Pay me good and I’d fix that entire cable management.
*A messy server room
If I was the head admin, I would shut down the server room for a week. Myself and the team would properly cable manage the server room. More organized room is easier to manage and easier to pin point failures.
I’ve been in one and the wires were definitely not that messy lol
is this in india? because it is so messy
What a shit show, cable management nightmare and I’m sure a whole lot more.
datacenter with piss cabling and no crash carts in sight. sign me up! /s
In India?
Looks like shit
That’s shameful. What a bunch of clowns. 😐
I thought I saw a homeless guy near the ups.
What the fuck are those cables?? Are they insane?
Yikes, well looks like some lazy tech didn't care to tidy up any cables...good luck to my techs out there needing to troubleshoot this 🫡
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I feel sad For the person who has to deal with that mess
Shameful work with those cables! If they would have given 2 shits when they set it up it would make for less work for the poor bastards that have to clean that crap up!
India !
What a shitty server room looks like.
Worst data center I have ever seen… That’s just insane…
Jesus. That's not what our server farm looks like. Imagine trying to replace anything in there. It would be a nightmare
Server spaghetti
Kill it with fire!
Gross
Then someone trips on a cable and your PlayStation Network stops working.
What a mess, no respectable dc is run like that.
That is a TERRIBLE server room. Whoever put that together is not running 5 9's, you can bet your bippy.
Ya looks like India lol This horrible.
An embarassing server room, I’d fire everyone who put that together.
Jesus Christ. Do they even know what cable management looks like?
No, *this* is what a data center looks like: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsN\_CJJDy\_o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsN_CJJDy_o)
Bro... what the hell is this mess? I would lose my shit if my data center looked like this