ESX Hosts cable colors?

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Karandras

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Hey,

Just curious what you use for colors for the different network types?

Network - Blue
iSCSI - Green
vMotion/FT/Mgmt - Yellow

Well, that's my wish right now. The admins before me used yellow non tied cables that looks like the rack is spewing spaghetti everywhere...ugghh....yay live environment. :-/
 
(2) Yellow = mgmt cat6
(2) green = vdistributed switch to stack member 1
(2) purple = vdistributed switch to stack member 2
(2) aqua = FC
 
Diverging away from having so many different parts on hand by minimizing colors and even racking in a way such as placing switch mid rack instead of TOR to standardize on one cable length. Having too many options contribute to the mess since people tend to take the easiest route which is grabbing the first patch cable they can get their hands on such as 10' when they only need 3'. Do label the cables with rack/module/switchport and add server/port function to switchport description.
 
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Purple CORE Switch 1
Orange CORE Switch 2

Pink SAN Switch 1
Green SAN Switch 2

White are uplinks from firewalls, will go away once they are converted to VLANs.

Ignore the right side of the orange/purple, dunno what I was thinking there. Just haven't fixed it.
 
At home I use whatever for the internal LAN links, but anything with direct connections to the cable modem, I use red. That way I know where all my external connections are.
 
RiDDLeRThC said:
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Purple CORE Switch 1
Orange CORE Switch 2

Pink SAN Switch 1
Green SAN Switch 2

White are uplinks from firewalls, will go away once they are converted to VLANs.

Ignore the right side of the orange/purple, dunno what I was thinking there. Just haven't fixed it.
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Those power splitters have peaked my interested.

Got a source?
 
Anything copper is black. Everything else is fibre OM3 so it's aqua. Everything has a cable label on it. Similar to below but printed from a label maker. Colored cables are cool until you need to patch in something and you're out of that color.

http://www.yenra.com/cable-labels/
 
RiDDLeRThC said:
jdEj2bal.jpg

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Purple CORE Switch 1
Orange CORE Switch 2

Pink SAN Switch 1
Green SAN Switch 2

White are uplinks from firewalls, will go away once they are converted to VLANs.

Ignore the right side of the orange/purple, dunno what I was thinking there. Just haven't fixed it.
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That is some real porn right there. :D

At home I don't really use color codes. I order cables from Monoprice as it's really cheap, but problem is the shipping is VERY expensive and it also takes a long time to get here (months) so I just order like 20 of every lenght so say right now I decided I wanted to have a color code I would have to wait for another order when I can just use what I have on hand now.

Idealy what I should probably do is get the proper tools to crimp cat6 (the ends have to be cat6 compatible I think. I've had bad luck crimping my own cat6 but probably because I used the wrong ends) then all I need to buy is several boxes of different colors and I can run cables exactly the length I need.
 
QHalo said:
Anything copper is black. Everything else is fibre OM3 so it's aqua. Everything has a cable label on it. Similar to below but printed from a label maker. Colored cables are cool until you need to patch in something and you're out of that color.

http://www.yenra.com/cable-labels/
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How do you make labels like that? I use the ones that are zip ties and then just use a regular label maker but I find the tie wrap part sometimes breaks if trying to put it on a small cable. Putting a label directly on cable also usually wont work as it will unstick too easily.
 
Aqua (Fiber) - FC
Blue - LAN
Green - Management LAN
Yellow - From firewalls to LANs
Red - internets to firewalls
 
Red Squirrel said:
How do you make labels like that? I use the ones that are zip ties and then just use a regular label maker but I find the tie wrap part sometimes breaks if trying to put it on a small cable. Putting a label directly on cable also usually wont work as it will unstick too easily.
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I have one of these - http://www.panduit.com/wcs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Panduit_Global%2FPG_Layout&cid=1345564329023&packedargs=classification_id%3D2396%26item_id%3DLS8E%26locale%3Den_us&pagename=PG_Wrapper

And I use these - http://www.panduit.com/wcs/Satellit...tion_id=2472&locale=en_us&pagename=PG_Wrapper

These wrap around cables so many times that it's almost impossible for them to come off. Most cables they'll make it around at least 3x.
 
Vashypooh said:
Those power splitters have peaked my interested.

Got a source?
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cables.com for the power y-cables and just about everything else for that matter.

Works great for co-locations where the PDU's always seem to not have enough plugs yet the circuit size supports the load. A/B power and just feed server 1 and 2 from the cable.
 
I've stopped ordering from monoprice and deepsurplus for cables. being in the east coast cablesandkits.com is quicker/cheaper.
 
QHalo said:
Anything copper is black. Everything else is fibre OM3 so it's aqua. Everything has a cable label on it. Similar to below but printed from a label maker. Colored cables are cool until you need to patch in something and you're out of that color.

http://www.yenra.com/cable-labels/
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Running out isn't usually a problem for us. a little up front investment in extra cables solves the problem.

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