MrGuvernment
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where are you buying the 1U organizers?
where are you buying the 1U organizers?
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Huh? I thought the LLNL/DOE system was already running in excess of 15 petaflops.
you haven't had it very long?
havent heard of that one, this was touted as the new fastest one, maybe thats only for academia?
no, but its in the top room of my house and it is on 24/7 pulling air in the front out the back. my computer room has carpet in it, so fuzz everywhere
PLUS the stock cpu paste is CRAP!
I saw a photo you uploaded of your server in a closed little rack. I'm looking at doing something similar (I will create a thread with questions) and I'm curious if there is a way to prevent dust from being pulled into the rack and then into the servers etc. Some sort of dust filter or something after the rack's ventilation holes. Is something like this available?
Yeah for switches I'm doing similar.
Not sure about the 2U appliances like the routers, firewalls and load balancers. I have LTM 6900s and 6400s from F5, ASA 5585Xs and various 1U ASA firewalls, ASR routers. I've attached a link to a pic of how I see my new network racks will look.
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I like the one practically empty patch panel at the bottom lol
Finished the Unifi Deployment, getting rid of these POS.
SonicWall makes good Firewalls but their wireless AP's suck.
I'm thinking about grabbing one of these ( furnace filter ) And put it on the front door of the mini rack that way it hits the filter and i can keep it clean, i'll put some vlecro dots on all 4 corners, that will alow it to stay in place, and allow me to remove it easily.
Can I get couple ? Seriously.
1. Some of the AP's would set themselves to international mode and change their channel. Manually overriding them would sometimes fix it, but more often then not they would reset back to international mode.
2. Bizarre incompatibility with certain wireless nics. We had a number of students and staff's computers would not fully connect to the network. Some would get connected but then fail to get an IP address. After trying multiple things, updating drives usually fixed the problem. They never had issues connecting to any other wireless network, they only had issues with our SonicPoints. This was just with a open guest network, no security, no Radius, etc.
3. The AP's supported N however it was extremely flaky. Most of the time they would not handle N and would either reboot or just stop moving traffic. We had to disable N on all the AP's.
4. Randomly they would disconnect from the network. The link would stay up and would stay powered on, however they dropped off the mac table so they did not appear on the switch. The manager would also be unable to communicate with it, and only a no power / power on the switch port would get them to come back up.
5. Some would lose the SSID but would continue to function normally if you connected to the default SSID.
6. Some of them got stuck updating firmware. Occasionally they would finally get updated and work for a while, but then they would lose their firmware and repeat the process.
7.
After a year of dealing with crappy wireless I am so glad to have ripped them out and put in good wireless.
Unifi is working great and zero issues.
Heck I came in one morning when we were still testing Unifi and there were 60 students on one Unifi AP! The two SonicPoints in that room were down and the only thing left was the Unifi. The students were only Blackboard testing so no major network traffic, but they had no issues.
Sorry, I can't sell them. Due to idiotic rules we can't sell or throw out old equipment.
Sorry, I can't sell them. Due to idiotic rules we can't sell or throw out old equipment.
So you just hold on to it till hell freezes over? Lol. That's dumb.
From the description he probably works at a Public University like I do and everything has to be disposed of through the business office. Which means old equipment goes to the surplus sale where scrapers fight tooth and nail for it and haul it away to sell as scrap.
I'll grab two and pay shipping... I'll pay for wrech00 too
From the description he probably works at a Public University like I do and everything has to be disposed of through the business office. Which means old equipment goes to the surplus sale where scrapers fight tooth and nail for it and haul it away to sell as scrap.
It's a stupid thing. Just like the Government i watched them take 4 pallets of dell servers away to the dump, asked if i can have one, nope its got sensitive data on it. ACTUALLY no it doesn't they all had no hard drives. Guy insisted they had data on them, right, and he's just a fork lift driver.
Some nice rack servers too..Just a waste..
the key is to make them disappear before they hit the pallett
Pretty much this. Worse thing is we can't get any compensation back from getting rid of old equipment. I'm sure someone down the line is making a crap ton, but it is not our department or campus.
Rackable systems are loud, and i havent heard they are real great. Do what Dash did, set a couple hundred aside, and get a nice Dell R210 or something.. its a nice server, has some horsepower, and it can be quiet too.
I have lots of servers at home, sadly these days they just sit dormant. Mostly 2x dual core systems and such. I just dont need them.. Got an itx board and made an untangle box.. and thats the end of it for now.
It's a stupid thing. Just like the Government i watched them take 4 pallets of dell servers away to the dump, asked if i can have one, nope its got sensitive data on it. ACTUALLY no it doesn't they all had no hard drives. Guy insisted they had data on them, right, and he's just a fork lift driver.
Some nice rack servers too..Just a waste..
Since we've been on the subject of surplus gear. Here is a bunch of 3550's, RPS's, a 4006 some parted out 6500 chassis and a 7206 vxr plus probably some other junk. Stack is about 7 feet high. And, no, I can't give away or sell any of this, sorry .
I'm thinking about grabbing one of these ( furnace filter ) And put it on the front door of the mini rack that way it hits the filter and i can keep it clean, i'll put some vlecro dots on all 4 corners, that will alow it to stay in place, and allow me to remove it easily.
I should preface this by saying that I don't have ANY experience with servers, but I have been building computers for over 10 years now. Not sure if my DNS-323 would really be considered a 'server' or not, but it really doesn't have robust hardware, just minimal for SOHO use. So I still have lots of homework to do.
I have been looking into the Dell R210 a little bit, and I am liking 90% of what I see. The only thing really that I see which I don't like is that it only accomodates 2 hard drives.
I have been looking at some older models, and right now I am interested in the F1D and the CS24-SC, but I really can't find ANY info at all on them, so that makes me a bit nervous.... Aside from that, the hardware looks ok, dual CPU, 4 HDD bays, 1U.
Dell F1D on Ebay
Dell CS24-SC on ebay
So that I have some pics posted..... Has anyone else had a box of cable that is absolutely a PITA to work with? This thing got all knotted up every 10 feet or so in the box when I was pulling cable throughout the house. Gotta love doing it yourself, having to crawl around the attick pulling the cable, then run back down to the basement every so often to get the tangled mess taken care of, or a snag loose. 1 thing is for sure.... The next house I buy, I am going to have at LEAST 1 if not 2 other people helping me so that it takes 25% of the time to get it done.
Or another favorite.... Had buddy rent a room from me for a year, and his dog TOTALLY messed up the carpet, so ripped it down to the plywood, FINALLY got the stink out, and decieded to cut up the floor so that I could take 3 cable runs out to the garage, 1 for living room, 1 for garage, 1 for possible future installation in the kitchen. 12 hour day at work, followed by 4 hours of pulling cables, and doing other work in that room. I ended up stepping between the joists where the cables were being pulled, and went into the living room.... whoops... hahaha.
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Bunch of cables running up to the attic
Rack revision 1.0.....
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