### Registering Racks in Data Centers

You may have considerable number of servers in your Data Center, and in order to facilitate servers management, you can save in the Parallels Business Automation - Standard database your racks capacity, location, and load.

From Parallels Business Automation - Standard standpoint, a rack is a logical container used for accounting purposes. A rack may be considered as an object within Parallels Business Automation - Standard. This means that if you do not have any material racks at your Data Center, you can group your Hardware Nodes into logical racks just for better manageability. On the other hand, the set of racks you create in Parallels Business Automation - Standard may follow the actual configuration of a Data center.

To view/edit the racks configuration, or add/delete a rack, click Racks on the Servers Manager submenu and selecrt a rack from the list.

To register a new rack:

1. Click Racks on the Servers Manager submenu. The list of racks registered (if any) appears on the screen.
2. Click the New Rack button.
3. Fill the form that appears:
   1. Type the name of the Rack into the Identification field. This is the name the rack will be referred to in Parallels Business Automation - Standard database. You can enter any alphanumerical name (number of words and upper/lower case is not critical).
   2. You can enter a rack capacity into the Capacity field. This is an optional Parallels Business Automation - Standard rack attribute representing the maximal number of servers this rack can contain. Similarly to a material rack capacity, this attribute is measured in Units (U). An Parallels Business Automation - Standard logical rack does not have any capacity restrictions.
   3. You can specify the rack actual location by selecting the Data Center a rack is located in from the Data Center drop-down menu.
   4. You can register servers located on this rack right away. To this effect, click the Add button on the Dedicated Servers part of the form and select one or more servers from the list that appears in the popup window. As you click on a server name, it appears in the list. Add servers and close the popup list. In case of mistake or if you want to re-group servers, you can remove a server from the list and detach it from the rack, To this effect, select a server. To select several servers in series, hold down SHIFT, and then click the first and last server names of the group. To select several servers that are nonadjacent in the list, hold down CTRL, and click a server name. To remove the selected servers from the rack, click the Remove button.
   5. Comment - any comment you consider useful.
4. Click the Save button.

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