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Rooms and racks
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Rooms
A room groups racks within a site — a comms room, a floor, a data hall. Create, rename and delete rooms from the site's own page, which is where you'll be when you're describing a location.
Rooms are optional. A small site with one rack doesn't need them.
Creating a rack
Racks are created from the site page too. A rack has:
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Name | What people call it — Rack A, Comms-01. |
| Label | An optional second identifier, if your naming has both. |
| Total U | How many rack units tall it is. This sets the elevation's height and its capacity. |
| Location | Free text for where it stands, if a room isn't enough. |
| Site | Which site it belongs to. |
The racks list
Racks in the top bar lists every rack across the estate, with:
- A site filter in the left rail
- Sort by site, by name, fullest first, or most space
- KPIs for racks, used units, free units, and items
Fullest first is the one to reach for when you're deciding where new hardware goes; most space answers the same question from the other end.
Notes & tips
- Get total U right when you create a rack. It's the ceiling for everything else, and a wrong number makes the capacity figures meaningless.
- Racks are scoped to their site, so asset scoping on a site applies here too — see Permission groups and access control.