today was the 2nd time i’ve encountered a server with kingslide (or similar type) rails. and even though i’ve dealt with them before i still forgot how to remove a server from them. the server today was a sun “sunfire” and i struggled trying to remove it. eventually i gave up and decided to google. i had a nagging feeling in my head that this scenario was very familiar as i encountered this same problem when trying to de-rack a cisco UCS server.

so the thing is…a portion of the slide rails is actually attached to the server. so when you want to remove the server from the rack you push two white tabs in the middle section of the rails towards you (there’s an arrow on both tabs that points to you). then pull the server out towards you a little bit and stop (no longer need to push the white tabs). then at this point you should be able to keep pulling the server out towards you until it’s entirely out of the rails.

this is in contrast to the dell poweredge rails (that i’m very used to) where you unlatch the server from the rails and then lift the server straight up. i’m not sure if it’s just because i’m used to the dell rails most or what, but i definitely prefer their design.

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