Dell’s Ready Rail for 11G Servers
Dell has introduced a new design for their 11G Servers. This rail kit is like no other before. The first thing that you will notice is that the rails themselves no longer attach to the rear mounting surface of the rack post but now wrap around and attach to the front mounting surface. The square hooks that Dell has used for years on their rail kits have been replaced by a set of pins and a small safety latch. The mounting depth range of this new rail kit changed from the previous kit as well. The following table compares the previous rail kit with the new one.
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The 11G Rail Kit is less likely to cause obstructions than the Universal Rail kit. The 11G Rail Kit has a very clean line from the front to the rear rack post. There are very few racks that this rail kit won’t install in. The exception being a rack that has threaded holes instead of the common square holes. If your rack is tapped then this rail kit will not work! The only option for installations that use a rack with tapped holes is to use a fixed rail or a 3rd Party Rail Kit. The installations that use 2PostRelay Racks will be able to use the Ready Rail with the addition of a 2Post Conversion Kit. The 2Post Conversion Kits are a set of 4 steel brackets that when installed onto a 2Post Rack provide the 4 corner attachments similar to a standard Server Rack. These Conversion Kits are available in sizes from 2-7 Rack Units and are capable of mounting multiple servers. |
August 10th, 2011 at 5:23 am
[…] We have some new Dell Poweredge R610s on the way. We were hoping to use the existing 1950 rails but it looks like Dell has a new type of rail for the 11G Poweredge series (yay) called the Ready Rail: http://www.server-racks.com/11g-ready-rails.html […]
March 19th, 2015 at 8:46 am
Hi Will, I’m an italian IT integrator, i’m buying a new server dell with ReadyRails Static Rails for 2 post racks, i want ask you if it could be mounted on this kind of rack: http://www.armadi-rack.it/code/id_prod-70010
in particular i want to know if DELL ReadyRails can be mounted on the front and on the back of the rack in standard racks hole squared or if it needs strange adapters,
thanks
max
March 30th, 2015 at 1:46 pm
What Dell server do you have?