what hardware is in the racks

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robina_80

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were i work in a data center they got the data room full of clients (customers) racks aswell as ours, and i want to know what the hardware in the rack is, so what i did was take down the make/model on some of the hardware and maybe you can tell me what it does?

Allied Telesis AT-WD1008

Cisco systems catalyst 3560

Cisco systems cisco1800

Livingston Port master 2e communication server

Cisco systems WS c6506-E

DELL poweredge 850

Allied Telesis AT8948

DELL poweredge 2650

DELL poweredge 2850

DELL poweredge 2850

APC auto transfer switch

Hawk-i Sinetica

Cisco systems cisco 800

ADVA FSP 3000


ive read up on some and they are routers switches etc etc but thats all i know about them and would like your comments aswell
 
Well, I believe all of the Cisco stuff is switches, along with the Allied Telesis. The Dell PowerEdges are just standard servers, which are basically just really big computers. The APC is used to transfer from AC power to backup power without shutting anything off in the event of a power failure. I think the Hawk-i Sinetica is used to detect any power or heating problems in the hardware and alert someone before there is any damage. The ADVA FPS 3000 is used to trasfer data over fiber optic cable. I'm not entirely sure what the communications server is for... but I think it's a pretty dated piece of equipement that has something to do with dialup connections.

Out of curiosity, what do you do there that doesn't require you to know anything about the hard ware?
 
its wierd isnt it i know you would of thought my job entailed knowing about servers switches and routers but it doesnt really, all my job entails is the day to day running of the data center building ie look after it, the clients racks i dont deal with
 
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