As a coincidence... I was *thinking* of moving a 90TB SAN (with mechanical's) to another rack that way... skateboard, long fibers and long power cords =D

Beat installing a Cisco 12k solo with 2x4's to align the mounting holes...

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On 2020-09-01 16:16, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG wrote:

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:28 PM Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:

Well, many of us are paying for redundant power supplies or redundant
REs, even if that doesn't make any difference when the chassis is on
fire. I guess most people know that, and still buy those redundant
components.

I buy it so I can walk the machine from an old UPS to a new UPS. Those instances occur with much more frequency than chassis fires. ;)

-A