That reminds me of the time I had to go stick some ram in a box in a data centre. As it was fully managed we found out when we got there all they had was telecoms racks and there was a huge pile of DL380’s stacked on top of each other. Mine was at the bottom. We jacked 9 machines up carefully with 4 people and a pile of Oreilly books and slid the node out carefully while everything was live.
It can be done
As someone who's day job is in a datacenter, I feel this.
A sneaky peek at some of the shit that exists out there..... last week I had to lift a couple of live Juniper (
crap!) routers up in the racks to fit servers underneath, while live and serving traffic. A couple years of connections, disconnections and general 'not my job' fuckery...
This one isn't a big router by any stretch of the imagination (we have some DWDM's and stuff that are serving in the terabit range now), but basically each port is a 100G connection.
(With a co-worker expressing the general sentiment at the whole situation...
)
So, if you come to Tokyo and download your WiniOS updates, Netflix, whatevers, etc, etc and it's nice and fast, you're welcome. If it's slow, don't blame me, I've already knocked off for the day!