> In my experience, data center cabling is either a huge mess (random cables just hanging everywhere) or is tied down so much you can't do any repairs/replaceme

> In my experience, data center cabling is either a huge mess (random cables just hanging everywhere) or is tied down so much you can't do any repairs/replacements (velcro, tie wraps, etc). There is a fine line between cleanliness and usability. We have 7 racks that went thru some changes and never in the history (12+ years) needed to replace any broken ones. It just doesn't happen. What did happen were re-wires when some hardware were replaces but smaller ones were small enough that whether it was nicely bundled "permanently" or not didn't matter much, and bigger ones were "take everything out and recable" job anyway so again, what was in the rack (and there were some spaghettified ones too) also didn't matter. Yeah routing it properly the first time helps but making it "permanent" by tying it down isn't really a problem, just put another bundle for next 5 servers.