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Network pics thread

New ESX server just came in. It will be for testing purposes and hosting less crucial VM's.

We had a nice deal on this, it's a Dell Poweredge R415, 2xAMD 4180 6cores, 32GB ECC, 4 x 300GB SAS 2.5'', iDRAC6 Enterprise,

We were looking for a R210 II at first for the price, but for less than a thousand bucks more, we could have this SMP 6 cores server with better hard drives and more RAM.

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MikeTrike said:
Tell me how plastic'ish they are. I've been thinking about 80-100 of those bastards. :)

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Mike, I've been less then thrilled with the Aircam's.
We've got 4 of the non-dome white ones in our office. And they need a reboot every few days. And We've already RMA'd one that would only properly boot like 1/10 times then it would reboot about 20 minutes in.

They feel kinda cheap. I like the dome cameras a bit more. Those are all for a job, But running firmware 1.1, And just bench tested one of them. Seemed to work fine.

Overall I'd say they are a little under the quality I've come to expect from Ubiquity (Were a huge...HUGE..Ubiquity user... Were a WISP..). We've used a lot of IQeye cameras that work really well. And these don't quite hold a candle, But at the price point. I'm not sure I should even try to compare the two. But for sure, The dome's seem better then my experiences with the normal aircams were. If you can find them in stock, I'd order 1 or two of the dome's and the aircams and see what you think.

Another thing to note, We normally use a video DVR software by a company called Video Insight. And these cameras don't currently work with it. Ubiquity wrote some strange way to get video out of these things, other then in the web interface.

Edit: Here's some more pictures. Don't mind my knife, just covering the serial number and it happened to be in arms reach.
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*Insert amazing picture here"

I accepted an offer today to be the IT manager for a local awesome company- However the 3 page NDA means I can't talk about anything or take pictures.

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All I can post. However, this is going to be one of the most amazing jobs I have ever had. Goodbye old job, you paid the bills.
 
Thanks, the company is amazing, the staff is great, the job should provide a great challenge, and to be honest I am still in the too good to be true phase. :) I may be able to take a generic picture here or there, but I value this job more then posting some cool pictures online :p.
 
The Spyder said:
Thanks, the company is amazing, the staff is great, the job should provide a great challenge, and to be honest I am still in the too good to be true phase. :) I may be able to take a generic picture here or there, but I value this job more then posting some cool pictures online :p.
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Telltale Signs This Job is For You

You have your house wired with a media server and a small network of other home built PCs.
You always know the distance to the nearest free WiFi connection.
You're tired of supporting computers at companies that know nothing about computers.
You automate anything that you have to do more than once.
Your friends call you before they buy anything electronic.
You know what the "Cloud" was before it was the "Cloud."
Caffeine is a vitamin.
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hahah my gess is this where the part where you felt like they where talking to you :)
 
:D

I think most of us here would be happy to get that job as it would be perfect for us all.
 
just did a quote for 4 new R610's going into our production datacenter, 17k plus 22k in vmware licensing.
 
Jay_oasis said:
Just got a new DEV SQL Server in

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Dell R510

6 x 300GB SAS 15K for Data RAID 10
2 x 600GB 10K SAS for OS RAID 1
H700 512MB NV Cache
32GB RAM
2008 R2 Standard
2 x Intel Xeon E5620

Next week we will have a $25,000 R910 going in as well plus a new NetApp SAN as well.
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I'm just curious, why would you give your OS array 600 GB? Will you even use close to that? I'm just wondering why you didn't go with 2 300 15K drives vs w 600 10K drives.
 
mainly becuase there where only 600GB 10K and 300GB 15K disks in stock! the 10K 600GB where less money plus we backup the .bak files to it and sync the .bak files from the production server to it as well, they also have their SVN workspaces on the drive.
 
I'm really liking the new Dell servers. I've always liked Dell servers but the new ones are even nicer. We just got in 3 R310s for new DCs. I'll have to grab a few pics at work and share them. We have even more in the budget this year so it looks like we'll be replacing a few more servers (even though they are fine, but we have the money to keep upgrading.) Maybe that means I'll be able to get away with a used Dell server :D
 
/usr/home said:
I'm really liking the new Dell servers. I've always liked Dell servers but the new ones are even nicer. We just got in 3 R310s for new DCs. I'll have to grab a few pics at work and share them. We have even more in the budget this year so it looks like we'll be replacing a few more servers (even though they are fine, but we have the money to keep upgrading.) Maybe that means I'll be able to get away with a used Dell server :D
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that would be sweet :)
 
Forgive the War Zone I call my desk, but the wifi parts came in today.

Proxim Point to Point Wifi for the new building we have. Easier than shit to setup.

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RiDDLeRThC said:
Our standard ESXi host is the R610's. We had to pass on the R415 due to only one expansion slot
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Yeah I know about it but it's kinda like a dev server for VM's in test and whatnot.

We have 2 fully loaded Dell T710 with Xeons X5680 with ESX for production servers so that's why I settled with a R415. The 2 T710 are redundant.
 
With all this Dell love I felt I'd share too...

Just threw 2 more of these R710s into our ESX cluster.

For reference, each of those sticks is 16GB, for a total of 288GB per box.

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dashpuppy has all of the fun.
I get to save up money just to buy some new case fans... boo hoo! :D
 
Oh god, I got to see the server room today. Or rather I heard it as I waiting in the guest entrance... Cooling solution? Portable fans. A half dozen portable fans. Every server was running at full fanspeed, Looks like that's going to be one of the first things I change.
 
The Spyder said:
Oh god, I got to see the server room today. Or rather I heard it as I waiting in the guest entrance... Cooling solution? Portable fans. A half dozen portable fans. Every server was running at full fanspeed, Looks like that's going to be one of the first things I change.
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looks over at server to see if it's still on,, yup it sure is, CAN'T HEAR IT BECAUSE ITS SILENT lol

Qnap-410u = silent, Asus RS-300 SILENT

cisco 2960 slight hum from the fan.

AHHHH a quiet room :)
 
This is at my new job. They build clusters+storage servers for a product they sell and as part of the burn in (since it will never spend its life in a climate controlled environment) are apparently torture tests like these. However this is for the main servers/switch gear for the company...

Though something like this in 6 months at my old job would not surprise me...
 
dashpuppy said:
looks over at server to see if it's still on,, yup it sure is, CAN'T HEAR IT BECAUSE ITS SILENT lol

Qnap-410u = silent, Asus RS-300 SILENT

cisco 2960 slight hum from the fan.

AHHHH a quiet room :)
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Big difference here: 144 cores, 1.5tb ram, and 400tb of storage.
 
Just got some stuff for a special project of mine.

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Wire (not so much for this project, but for general purpose)
Din Rail
Din terminal connectors

I will be cutting the rail to fit in my server rack and add some terminal blocks to interconnect my hvac server to the temp sensors and the furnace itself. I will be posting more on this as I progress through. I still have to code the climate control app, but I did write a basic class to communicate with the relay/sensor module, so I'm getting there.

One of the servers in my rack will be controlling it all. In the future I'll probably add more home automation/data acquisition stuff and it will all go through that server.

Oh and this is one of the temp sensors:

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It came as the transistor-like part and a resistor, and I soldered them myself on this makeshift breadboard, so it's one piece. I'll be using cat6 all the way to the rack's terminal blocks to feed it.
 
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