Racks, enclosures and cooling
Open frames, wall-mount cabinets and full enclosures from small 4U boxes up to 45U floor racks, plus the shelves, blanking panels and fans that make them work. This is the furniture of an equipment room.
21 units in this part of the catalog, $69.99 to $3199.99.
Picking one of these
Depth catches people out more often than height. Measure the deepest thing going in, add room for the cables bending behind it, and buy for that. Blanking panels are not decoration either: an open gap in the front lets hot exhaust roll straight back into the intakes, and the fans work harder for no gain.
The same hardware turns up in more than one kind of room. These are the places this section gets used most:
- IT closets — A closet is the densest thing most sites own and the least often opened.
Not sure of the size
The load calculator adds up what you plan to plug in and leaves only the units rated to carry it with room to spare.
Run the numbers