Open ebusto opened 11 months ago
Hey @ebusto, thanks for the feature request! Just to clarify, is this a feature you want to support floating-point u_height
when creating DeviceType
instances?
Actually, this would be a new field on device types, width
. I was a bit skeptical as well, but our datacenter team works with cutting edge hardware, and half width devices are a thing these days.
I would love to see this.
One could see it as a rack mount that can fit fractional devices. So one can devide a (number of) rack heights in width slots. Being half or third or even quarters and smaller.
Not when I get into our datacenter I will try to snap some pictures as examples.
I see it as a device with devicebays, except the device bays should be individual devices and not part of their parent device. Correct me if I got that wrong @ebusto .
Devicebays requires one to define potential child devices/boards which is not always needed. Two half width devices can fit fine next to each other
As ...
Isabella - Infrastructure Owner
I want ...
to track devices in racks that are half width, such as the Mellanox SN2100 switch.
So that ...
I may accurately track the contents of my datacenter.
I know this is done when...
I can specify half width devices when create device types, and adding them to racks, and nothing explodes.
Optional - Feature groups this request pertains to.
Database Changes
Integers widths would need to be represented as floating point numbers.
External Dependencies
None.