Dell PowerEdge Rack Accessories

Data Center Infrastructure

The Dell PowerEdge portfolio for Enterprise customers of all sizes offers the infrastructure and accessories that companies need to complement their IT system deployment. Enhance your Dell rack enclosure with a selection of optional rack accessories, including cable management, cooling/airflow management, and other products.

Cable management
Dell provides several options for cable management that can be used separately or together, depending on your specific needs. These items are compatible with all Dell PowerEdge xx20 racks. The vertical cable manager (VCM) can be installed in the rear power distribution unit (PDU) tray of the PowerEdge xx20 racks (or many third-party racks that use the same button-mount keyhole spacing), occupying the width of a single vertical PDU. The VCM kit also has alternate mounting holes and ships with screws to allow installation along the rear equipment mounting posts in the 750mm wide Dell rack enclosures. The VCM has two 18U sections, which allows you to easily place it in various locations within the PDU tray, wherever you need it, even in a 24U rack. The VCM finger-spacing correlates to the rack U-spacing, and the metal cover snaps into place on the fingers to contain and conceal your cables. The horizontal crossover panels, also called lacing bars, are compliant to the EIA-310 specification and are available in two heights, 1U and 2U. They have several types of attachment point options, including mounting locations for metal cable rings, hook-and-loop straps with a twist connector and other accessories that use the rectangular twist connectors, such as claw hooks. The accessories can be mounted to either side of the crossover panel, which can also be used in any third-party EIA-310 compliant rack. The metal cable rings can be installed in the PDU trays in the Dell rack or attached to the horizontal crossover panels. Six of these rings are provided with the hardware kit shipped in each Dell rack, and this kit of 10 rings provides additional cable management support within the rack. A separate kit of 10 hook-and-loop straps with twist connectors provides a quick and easy way to secure cables snugly against the sides of the rack. These straps can also be connected to the horizontal crossover panels.

Cooling/airflow management
Dell offers closeout filler panels, also called blanking panels, in a variety of sizes and materials to fit in the Dell PowerEdge racks. Closeout filler panels are attached to the front of unused rack space and are designed to improve air flow to the installed equipment and reduce hot air recirculation to the front of the rack. Using closeout filler panels helps implement data center best practices that can lead to an important common goal: creating the coldest possible intake temperature with the highest possible volume of chilled-air plus the warmest possible exhaust temperature.

Plastic closeout filler panels are available in 1U and 2U sizes and provide quick tool-less snap-in installation for squarehole racks.

February 2013

Steel closeout filler panels provide support for more types of racks, with tooled installation for square, round or threaded holes. These are available in 1U, 2U, 3U or 6U sizes to optimize your coverage. For threaded-hole racks, hardware with #10-32 threads is provided. Filler panel options
Single-pack 10-pack 100-pack Square-hole Round-hole Threaded-hole

Plastic
1U, 2U 1U, 2U 1U

Steel
1U, 2U, 3U, 6U 1U, 2U

Rack fans can be mounted in the top of the Dell 4x20 racks to help move air through the perforated canopy. Regional models are available for 120V, 208V and 230V operation.

Additional accessories
The 1U fixed equipment shelf provides multiple options for rail attachment in a variety of 4- and 2-post racks, supporting a loaded weight capacity of 200 pounds (90.7 kg). The heavy-duty steel shelf also includes slots to facilitate cable management and two hook-and-loop straps to secure cables. Interconnect kits (also referred to as baying or ganging kits) allow you to connect two Dell racks of the same height. It is possible to connect racks of different depths, in addition to connecting xx20 racks to the previous generation of xx10 racks. The grounding kit provides a set of wires and fasteners to bond the racks removable components to the frame for a common ground. Dell rack enclosures offer a bonding point (or grounding stud) on each of the doors, sides and other removable components, and all bonding points on the enclosure should be connected to the rack frame using the grounding kit. The wires provided with the grounding kit are sized and labeled to fit with specific components refer to the instructions for proper connection.
Accessory ordering information Vertical cable manager 1U crossover panel 2U crossover panel Metal cable rings, qty 10 Hook & loop straps, qty 10 Grounding kit Interconnect kit Equipment shelf Americas With rack 332-1329 332-1330 332-1331 332-1327 332-1332 332-1328 330-3601 330-5781 Separately 332-1337 332-1336 332-1338 332-1333 332-1339 332-1335 330-4455 330-5782 EMEA With rack 750-AABH 750-AABJ 750-AABL 750-AABI 750-AABK 750-AABG 770-10734 Separately 770-13125 770-13123 770-13124 770-13126 770-13127 770-13128 770-10740 770-11038 With rack 750-AABH 750-AABJ 750-AABL 750-AABI 750-AABK 750-AABG 770-10950 770-11018 APJ Separately 750-31303 750-31301 750-31302 750-31306 750-31304 750-31305 321-10102 770-11229

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