Choosing and Using Equipment Racks
When purchasing hardware for your data center, you may choose both standalone and rack-mounted pieces of equipment. Standalone hardware is too large to fit into a rack and is designed to stand directly on the data center floor. Rack-mounted hardware, on the other hand, is smaller and can be housed with other equipment in vertical hardware racks—support structures designed to hold multiple pieces of computer equipment in a single vertical space. Racks enable you to store multiple pieces of equipment atop a single “footprint,” saving space in the data center, facilitating equipment connections, and providing easy access for maintenance and repair.
Racks come in many shapes and sizes, but the most common types ...
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