I am by no means an IT 'graybeard'. I have been doing this kind of work for about nine years now and have been with a few different companies/environments in that time. One thing that hit me the other day is that I haven't put my hands on hardware in any real capacity since transitioning into the civilian workforce. When I was at EMC, we had a few stacks that we used for training, but my job was 95% software-focused, so it was more about knowing where certain parts were located on the server.
I did, however, have to rack a server during my time in the Navy. We were out on deployment when one of our Solaris servers decided to give up the ghost. When we pulled back into port, a huge shock-absorbent case labeled "Fire Control - Strike" (the name of my division) sat on the pier. Being one of the more technical members of the division, I was assigned to pull out the old stack and install the new one.
Normally, I'd just snap a photo of all of the connections in the old one, then replicate the setup in the new one. However, we weren't allowed to have cell phones in our working areas (due to the classification of the materials), and I had to get special permission from the weapons officer to use a camera phone for the task. He later stood over my shoulder and watched me delete the photo and the metadata associated.
Anyway, I said all that to tell a personal story and ask the question, Have you ever racked a server?
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Tyler is the Sr. Community Manager at Enable Sysadmin, a submarine veteran, and an all-round tech enthusiast! He was first introduced to Red Hat in 2012 by way of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based combat system inside the USS Georgia Missile Control Center. Now that he has surfaced, he lives with his wife and son near Raleigh, where he worked as a data storage engineer before finding his way to the Red Hat team. He has written numerous technical documents, from military procedures to knowledgebase articles and even some training curricula. In his free time, he blends a passion for hiking, climbing, and bushcraft with video games and computer building. He is loves to read and enjoy a scotch or bourbon. Find him on Twitter or on LinkedIn.
