Astronomer Posted December 16, 2013 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted December 16, 2013 Hi all, Check out my rack in a spare room in my basement! The rack is a 24u APC Netshelter. The front door, sides, and 2 rear doors come off easily. One of the rear doors has a gap at the bottom for power cables, and there are three grommeted holes on top of the chassis for cables and whatnot. On the bottom is a Liebert 1500VA Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) for power conditioning for the servers and backup in case of a power failure. Another one will be added shortly, so the mess of cables in the back to a 2nd external UPS will disappear. The servers are 3-4-ish year-old HP ML350 towers, with quad-core Intel Xeon processors, laid on their sides on L bracket shelves. The bottom one has 9 drives and 8Gb of ECC memory, and is my file/media/web server. It runs Ubuntu Linux server. The top one has 16Gb of ECC memory and runs VMWare and several virtual servers. I pillaged some parts from it for the bottom server, so it's powered off until I replace the parts this week. Both have redundant fans and power supplies. I added a shelf on top for the gigabit network switch and other bits. On top is a mouse, keyboard, monitor, and KVM switch so I can use all the peripherals between both servers. I plan on adding a rack-mount 24-port gigabit network switch (our household of 2 actually needs it, especially when the DSL modem and router are moved to this room) and a couple of other bits. The best part is all of the above cost me next-to-nothing (I bought the switch, mouse, and keyboard). All of the rest were equipment returned to my employer off-lease. They were taking up space in the warehouse, so I was given the go-ahead to load up my truck with whatever I wanted. I work for an IT company, and every now and then we get a pile of gear back. It's paid for and done, so it's either given to interested employees or sent out for recycling. The rack was a huge score! Our 15-week-old kittens and dogs can't play with the cables. Leadfinger, Gatorgirl, DEEJAYKEG and 4 others 7 Awards
Devildog4355 Posted December 16, 2013 Member ID: 15237 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 93 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 958 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 580 Achievement Points: 6679 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/30/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2021 Birthday: 05/04/1992 Posted December 16, 2013 I'm soo jealous I want to get one but don't have disposable income for it... Astronomer 1 Awards
Astronomer Posted December 16, 2013 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 16, 2013 I'm soo jealous I want to get one but don't have disposable income for it... Neither do I. so when opportunity knocks... Awards
Devildog4355 Posted December 16, 2013 Member ID: 15237 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 93 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 958 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 580 Achievement Points: 6679 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/30/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2021 Birthday: 05/04/1992 Posted December 16, 2013 Yea that's great news for you.... My company scraps everything and drills a hole into everything with memory capability Awards
concours Posted December 18, 2013 Member ID: 5839 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 31 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 204 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 1606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/02/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 30, 2023 Birthday: 07/01/1957 Posted December 18, 2013 looks like you hit the jackpot with that find. very nice !! Astronomer 1 Awards
RIP>XI< Posted December 18, 2013 Member ID: 1684 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2146 Content Per Day: 0.40 Reputation: 944 Achievement Points: 13782 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 20 Birthday: 11/16/1971 Device: Windows Posted December 18, 2013 put this in a red bag and say santa put this in my room lolll Astronomer 1 Awards
Damage_inc- Posted December 19, 2013 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted December 19, 2013 sounds like u wet yourself.enjoy Astronomer 1 Awards
Tball Posted December 19, 2013 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Posted December 19, 2013 I have about 20 dl380's gen 1 free must pay shipping I will take some pics of my Rack tomorrow Dell 42U Astronomer 1
Sammy Posted December 19, 2013 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.91 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted December 19, 2013 Sometimes playing around with a nice rack can cost a fair amount of money. Or at least dinner. Awards
GUNNER66 Posted December 19, 2013 Member ID: 1708 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 12 Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 40 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 72 Achievement Points: 594 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/18/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 31, 2014 Birthday: 03/04/1966 Posted December 19, 2013 nice
Burt(XI) Posted December 20, 2013 Member ID: 478 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 22 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 302 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 249 Achievement Points: 2309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/21/09 Status: Online Last Seen: Just now Birthday: 07/26/1952 Device: Windows Posted December 20, 2013 Jackpot!! I would love to have that. Awards
fireurza Posted December 20, 2013 Member ID: 677 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1457 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 791 Achievement Points: 9890 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 11/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16, 2024 Birthday: 02/20/1986 Posted December 20, 2013 I need to get a server rack... but i really dont want to set up another server lol Awards
Belted Posted December 20, 2013 Member ID: 1620 Group: ++ COD5 Admin Followers: 90 Topic Count: 161 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1430 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 928 Achievement Points: 11072 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/28/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 3, 2024 Birthday: 03/24/1962 Device: Windows Posted December 20, 2013 Well done Astronomer! Take care... Awards
Tball Posted December 21, 2013 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Posted December 21, 2013 here is my rack Dell 42u one R710 four 2950's the UPS is a dell it will run the rack for about one hour Every server has min of 32gb of ram On those 5 servers i have about 50 servers running in Hyper V all in production exchange, Lync, 6 domain controllers, backup servers, linux based virus scanner for exchange <-- i am going to market this one day works like a barracuda, asigra server database servers. Astronomer 1
Merlin007 Posted December 21, 2013 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1134 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8594 Content Per Day: 1.63 Reputation: 7568 Achievement Points: 76712 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted December 21, 2013 Sweet setup fellas, Astro and TBall. I'm jealous. I don't have a rack like those. Mine is just a home made rack, will post pictures when all cleaned up. This is my home network. Awards
Astronomer Posted December 21, 2013 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 21, 2013 Heeee-yaaahhh! Nice one there Tball! My requirements aren't quite that extreme, but that is nice. I also have a Dell T610 that I have to add some memory and drives to. No rush on that. Awards
Astronomer Posted December 21, 2013 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) Here's my current network diagram. I have 100-foot runs of cat6 cable running from my office sown to the basement server room. I'm also going to task one of the servers, either in a VM or the Dell, as a Sophos Unified Threat Management gateway/router. The Wyse terminal has weather software called Cumulus installed on it. I use it for data collection from my wireless weather station. The data is then sent to the Weather Underground and to their map, and FTP'd to a personal web page where I can check in for more real-time data. It also tweets current conditions 4 times a day, which is also auto-forwarded to my extreme weather Facebook page. Edited December 21, 2013 by Astronomer Merlin007 and Tball 2 Awards
Damage_inc- Posted December 21, 2013 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted December 21, 2013 no hooters?? Awards
Tball Posted December 22, 2013 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Posted December 22, 2013 (edited) You can load that T610 with ram and run Hyper V . Hyper V is so much easier to run that VMware Edited December 22, 2013 by Tball
Astronomer Posted December 22, 2013 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 22, 2013 I've never tried Hyper V yet. I do have a copy of Server 2012, so I may give it a shot. VMWare is great because its recourse hit is tiny and it just gets out of the way. I'll have to dig into the key differences between the two. Our shop is 99% VMWare, but Microsoft is really giving us the hard push and incentives to get into HyperV. Awards
daMike Posted December 22, 2013 Member ID: 1011 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 5 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 532 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 318 Achievement Points: 3254 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 7 hours ago Birthday: 02/10/1962 Device: Windows Posted December 22, 2013 (edited) I was sadly disappointed when i found out the kind of rack you was bragging about At least it is huge (back to the hooters section...) Edited December 22, 2013 by daMike Damage_inc- and Astronomer 2 Awards
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