by I’m trying to figure out how other people set up their server equipment. Racks are a given; I’m looking information about patch panels, cabling, labeling, the console server…
sage-members had a good discussion about how to label cables, from which I distill the rule “label all cables at both ends (and perhaps every 10 feet) with unique, random numbers.”
I don’t know much about how console servers are typically used, nor how patch panels are set up.