roussell wrote:Different Computers wrote:Cmon Roussel, post a pic of your garage.
It’s a mess at the moment, I tore it all apart last week and started boxing stuff up for a hopeful move after Christmas. I should have taken some photos beforehand but it happened on the heals of a sewage pump malfunction so my mind was elsewhere.... my Indigo server is sitting in the master bedroom on a small table by the bed now. My geek cred is pretty low these days!
Terry
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ok here is a shot of the only cabinet (1 of 3) still operational and mostly together.
- rack1.jpg (146.59 KiB) Viewed 2806 times
From the top:
3 of the 6 total Fibre Channel drive arrays, hosting a mix of 2 and 4 TB drives and managed by a FreeNAS VM.
The blank 4u space below held 4 mac minis, two 2.0 GHz circa 2008 mini and 2 2012 minis. The 2008s weren't used anymore and the 2012s were Indigo and other assorted home functions. They all normally live in 2, 2U Sonnet rack mount enclosures designed for the minis.
Below the blank space is the smaller DL580 (4 10-core processors currently 512Gb RAM) which hosts several dozen ESX- based VMs, including the FreeNAS VN from the SAN array (I'll move that back to Oracle's SAN controller when I move, most likely, or to a separate physical FreeNAS controller), along with several MacOS, Windows, and Linux VMs that get used for all sorts of things (Sighthound video server, Homeseer, Home Assistant, OpenHAB, web, etc.)
The larger DL980 below the 580 is 1 of 2 and was part of a Redhat Virtualization cluster use mostly for testing and playing.
At the bottom of the cabinet are 3 APC 2200VA UPS, fed by 3 separate 220 Volt circuits
Cabinet 2 of 3, not shown and now disassembled, had 3 more drive array enclosures, 3 more 2200 VA UPSes, the other DL980, and OLD Yellow Google server, the Oracle SAN controller, Firewall (PFsense) and network switches (Cisco 3750s)
Cabinet 3 of 3 also not shown and now disassembled was the AV cabinet and held a 2 Sonos Connect and 2 Sonos Connect Amps, 3 On (wish I would have bought morekyo TX-NR-535 AVR, a older Pioneer VSX-1021 that I love and can't seem to part with (and wish I would have bought more Pioneer AVRs instead of the Onkyos), a couple of cheapo Insignia Stereo AVRs used as zone amps for the Sonos Connects, a couple of 1200 watt Sub amps for the media room, an old HTPC, the DirecTV DVRs, and a few more UPSes.
With most of it now disassembled, I feel like I'm living in the stone age, probably need to downsize A LOT in the new place!
Terry