Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in
respect to equipment position location in a data center and provide a
novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for
rack position determination using acoustics. In one embodiment of the
invention, a method for rack position determination using acoustics can
be provided. The method can include ultrasonically ranging a first target
wall in a data center from a host rack enclosure to acquire range data
for the first target wall and ultrasonically ranging a second target wall
in the data center from the host rack enclosure to acquire range data for
the second target wall. The method further can include translating the
range data for the first target wall and second target wall into position
coordinates for the host rack enclosure and forwarding the position
coordinates to a system administrator for the data center over a coupled
data communications network.