Installing some weird rails and a server in a rack ! A blog post by me! ( blog.krafting.net )

litchralee , 3 months ago

Nice job making it work!

This reminds me of when I installed my Dell m1000e blade server into my rack. As it turns out, the clearance behind the face of a 19" rack isn’t standardized, so a protrusion on the ears would have interfered. The solution ended up being an angle grinder to remove the protrusion, and then re-leveling my rack, since otherwise the holes on the server wouldn’t align unless the rails are absolutely plumb.

Krafting OP , 3 months ago

Thanks!

Angle grinder is quite an overkill solution, but I guess, when you have no other choice, you gotta do what you gotta do!

litchralee , 3 months ago

It works, and that’s what counts lol

Btw, I noticed your blog post was titled “random rail story #1”. Should I infer that more rack rail-related blog posts will follow?

Krafting OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Yeah indeed ahah

And yeah, I’m sure in the future I’ll find other weird server rails, and I actually have another pair of unused rails that I don’t know anything about, they are not sliding rails, just the “shelf” kind of rail. And I might talk a bit about it, even though there is a lot less to say about them (But rack mounting them is really finicky too it seems…)

The next blog post will be about an IBM eServer 336 that I got for free too, I’ll probably separate it into multiple parts (Hardware Review + Software Tests)

Edit: I just checked and there is a small HP part number sticker: 697305-001, and they are rails for the HP D3600 storage boxes! Well I know a lot more about these rails now