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So you want to build your own data center

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596 points dban | 1 comments | 17 Jan 25 20:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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jdoss ◴[17 Jan 25 23:16 UTC] No.42744258[source]▶
This is a pretty decent write up. One thing that comes to mind is why would you write your own internal tooling for managing a rack when Netbox exists? Netbox is fantastic and I wish I had this back in the mid 2000s when I was managing 50+ racks.

https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox

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jpgvm ◴[18 Jan 25 11:36 UTC] No.42747639[source]▶
Netbox is crap unless you are trying to manage a small but very heterogeneous environment. For anything big, very homogeneous etc you really don't want it.

It feels more like an OSS tool for managing university campus scale infra, which is completely fine if that is the problem you have but for commercial scale infrastructure unfortunately there isn't a good OOTB DCIM option right now.

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1. walterbell ◴[18 Jan 25 11:52 UTC] No.42747704[source]▶
Even for campus scale (e.g. CERN), there are limited options, https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/19...