Poweredge R610 Versa Rail is Too Long for the Rack
Comments (1) After almost a whole full year of scratching my head, blaming data center for not changing to the latest rack standard. I finally figured out today how to fit the longer than usual Dell Poweredge Versa Rail into the old rack.
The solution always lies in details and only if you look carefully.
I was working on something else in the data center today and suddenly I saw that disgusting Poweredge R610 rail again. It’s been sitting there for almost 1 year and I really hate to see it’s being wasted and not in line with the rest of 11th generation Powerdge/Powervault series. I used a rail angle instead as the original R610 versa rail was too long for the rack and I couldn’t close the back door.
As I was staring at the LONG TAIL, suddenly inspiration spiked again! Yeah! How come I didn’t think of this by removing the extra long bit from the end before?
It’s really simple as that and only if you look carefully, I think this method will work for most of the 1U longer than usual versa rail.
Finally, if you know the purpose for that extra part, please do drop me a line.
