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Proposal to enable the possibility to place two devices in the same rack unit

ilGino 4 years ago • updated 4 years ago • 2

Hello all,

I suggest to enable the possiblity to place two devices (items) in the same rack unit.


Example:


PDU #1 is placed in rack unit #1, facing front

PDU #2 is placed in rack unit #1, facing rear


This makes sense for devices which are very short in depth.

Or another example:


PDU #1 is placed in rack unit #1, facing front, only left half of the unit

PDU #2 is placed in rack unit #1, facing front, only right part of the unit


This makes sense for devices which are very small in width, or placed on a tray.

Actually every time I try to add a device facing [rear/front] on the same rack unit already used by a device facing [front/rear] I receive a "Not enough space to place the item" error.


Tested with PDU items and Network items.


I am on a GLPI 9.5.3 fresh installation where everything else is working perfect, so I suppose it is a deliberate feature.

Thank you all in advance

ilGino 4 years ago

Hello all,

here below you find some examples of 1U half-width switches from major vendors like Mellanox, Netgear, HPE:

They would be well fitted and placed in a GLPI Rack item with an additional left/right allocation for the same unit, which apparently now is not allowed.

Regards

ilGino 4 years ago

Hello all,

please consider this Feature Request as cancelled, due to the fact that this feature is already implemented.

All it takes is to define a Model, with fractionary depth or width, and assign this model to the device added to the rack.

Regards

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