APC racks and their PDUs are awesome. We then ordered 2ft cables in black and 1ft in white, that gives us enough slack to cable in both of the HP server power supplies to redundant PDUs and it's ...

The best thing I've thought of so far is some sort of patch panel in each rack. Once that goes in the cable between the patch panel on the server rack and the patch panel on the switch rack is ...

Remember that one time the cable you grabbed from the box was exactly the right length for the run from patch panel to server shelf ... of retractable cables in rack-mountable cassettes.