On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Ricky Beam <jfb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:18:42 -0500, Mike Lyon <mike.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If they are Dell servers, you could always name each host in their BIOS so >> it shows up on the display of the host. > > > I did that with a batch of sun v20z's... when they got to the colo, no one > knew which was which until they're powered and the service processor is > fully booted. (a process that takes several minutes) By then, they've been > racked in the wrong racks and in the wrong order. :-( Of course, I've done > that to myself as well... pull a stack of machines and forget what order > they were in :-)
And watch for the removable faceplates. We've been bitten before after a server move by rebooting a server that had the correct label but the wrong faceplate. Now we label the faceplate as well as underneath of it too. :-) -B