Ah, the magical switches and servers whose rack mounts allow for cables to be routed behind/beside them...

AI slop is sloppy

Smells like slop

Labeling and Organizing

..okay?

There's no red power cable for the Legend and the Legend doesn't correlate with the color coding...

It's getting more precise, but it fundamentally doesn't know what it's doing.

Slop

Q: What if the servers are some 4U beasts with 36x 3.5" drives each?

A: On top of the UPS, because you don't get paid enough for the hazard involved in lifting them higher.

Sidenote: More than once, for shorter surveys/projects/setups, I've built what we refer to as a doodlebugger-pile. You just stack it on the floor, and secure it with some two-by-fours and screws. Because finding a deep enough rack and manhandling it up multiple decks on a ship is fucking awful. If it's secure enough to not slide during heavy seas, it's good enough for seismic.

I just put them in perpendicular and let them lay against and on top of each other

I prefer network in the middle. When you're running 3-5 cables per host, it helps keep the cable density managable.