Hi,
a 8325 Hardware question: Is there a Air Duct Kit available? Like JL716A for the 8360?
power-side is located at cold-site of data-center
port-side is located at warm-side of data-center
So we always use power-to-port (or back-to-front) airflow switch models.
But this does have an big disadvantage using the 8325 models. I did'nt find any air duct kit for this model.
As shown in the pictures, to have an clear cold-side we had to mount the 8325 very inside of the rack, approx 20-30cm.
This leads to more space requirement, because we had to left space above and below of the 8325 to have enough "room" for plugging the SFPs and Cables.
In Comparison we also have 8360 models with the air duct kit and their the power/cold-side is clear (closed), and the port/warm-side is aligned flush.
I don't know how many customers do have a similiar cold/warm design with switch port-side / patch-panels on the warm-side.
In our case we do have 4 racks with 3 8325 (in sum 12 8325) which where mounted as shown below.
If there are such kits available for the 8325 it would be great. Then we could change the mounting before finally migrating to the new network infrastructure.
If not, I would make a innovation zone topic and contact our aruba partner for investigation @ Aruba. I had ask our partner before buying the switches, but the answer was, there is no air duct kit or similar for the 8325...
Thanks and kind regards
Robert
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Robert Großmann
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