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Network pics thread

Probably the same thing i use my old sun box for, intermittent testing and then power them back off LOL.
 
USF-Nealio said:
Not particularly hard, no. I just moved on to 2u because it was a lot easier to find a quiet platform. Do you have recommendations for 1U?
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Asus 1u servers are DEAD quiet. my last xeon one was silent i miss it trust me :( it was a wicked machine..

My dell r415 with 2 quad core cpus and 4 hot swap hdd's is quiet too, not as quiet as the Asus server but its quiet.. it's beside me and it's pretty quiet..

Supermicro servers are loud, would never use those in a home environment unless it's the atom units..
 
The Dell R320 and r620 are both 1u and they are super quite.
SuperMicro stuff tends to be loud, mostly due to their PSUs. Most of them never shut off even when the server is off. I have a SM 4u chassis that is relatively quite for a server, however the 12 bay SM jbod screams once it is plugged in.
 
I don't mind the sound of equipment, it's a white noise that reassures you everything is running. :D Especially great to hear when the power has been out for a while. :p
 
Red Squirrel said:
I don't mind the sound of equipment, it's a white noise that reassures you everything is running. :D Especially great to hear when the power has been out for a while. :p
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Yeah but not so great when you can hear it through several walls and you are trying to sleep. lol
 
USF-Nealio said:
Yeah but not so great when you can hear it through several walls and you are trying to sleep. lol
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that's why you do mod's to "certain" kinds of equipment to make it quiet :) most server grade stuff belongs in a data center or a room designed for it,they don't care about noise.

NOW that being said you can make switches quiet and servers quiet.
 
dashpuppy said:
they don't same with HP servers the g5's. Once the machine is plugged in the psu's are on that's why the psu's fail all the time.
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Both the G5's and Supermicro machines I've run have the fans off when the machine is off.
 
I need someone to help me with the meat sauce order for my spaghetti

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calvinj said:
I'm just doing cables.. ceiling tiles is a maintenance problem. I plan on taking before and after pictures
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Until you run into the goofball that spurts out somethign like "I clipped the cables because I couldn't get the ceiling tile in"

It's happened to me before.
 
or the cabling guy who 99 percent of the time does excellent work, but the one time he cut some cables short, had to use a different set of cables, and mislabled them, so I could not find the port on the patch panel.
 
I have tamed several networks closets like that in my day.
Step one throw away all existing patch cables. Trust me on this one.
Step two buy new patch cables from Monoprice.
Step three purchase and install horizontal cable managers.
Step four recable using the cable managers.
Step five admire your work.

Example
 
I like the dangling power bar in the back, it's like the cherry on top. It looks like it only has one thing plugged into it. :D
 
mikeblas said:
Both the G5's and Supermicro machines I've run have the fans off when the machine is off.
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A few supermicro machines I had in the past had the PSU fans screaming on even with the server powered down. As long as the PSU's had power supplied to them, they screamed with their little fans.

Wasn't terrible, but to me when it's off, it should be OFF.

I don't think any of the new generation stuff does this anymore.
 
Wasn't this to cool down the system when the power is first turned off? After all, the heat doesn't immediately go away when the computer is shut down. Now if it never shut the fans off...
 
djflow195 said:
Wasn't this to cool down the system when the power is first turned off? After all, the heat doesn't immediately go away when the computer is shut down. Now if it never shut the fans off...
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No, even if the system was cool they were on, of if you just pulled it out of the box they were on. I think if they were on and at a LOW LOW rpm it wouldn't be so bad, but they were screamers..
 
dashpuppy said:
No, even if the system was cool they were on, of if you just pulled it out of the box they were on. I think if they were on and at a LOW LOW rpm it wouldn't be so bad, but they were screamers..
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Seconding this. Supermicros were the worst. Their fans ran with an audible whirr as soon as you plugged it in, and when you actually powered it on they would spin up louder than the deltas of yore.
 
schnell said:
I have tamed several networks closets like that in my day.
Step one throw away all existing patch cables. Trust me on this one.
Step two buy new patch cables from Monoprice.
Step three purchase and install horizontal cable managers.
Step four recable using the cable managers.
Step five admire your work.

Example
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You didn't step one throw away the cables.
 
It's hardware refresh time! It comes once every 3-4 years.

Not much to brag about, replacing our 5 year old switches:
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5x Power Connect 2848. I'll post before and after rack pictures after New Years when I redo the racks.

Also introducing the concept of docking stations and 22" monitors to the office. Some of the boxes:
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Going from 4 year old Vostro boat anchors to Latitude E6530/5530s, featuring i5/i7's and SSDs. They are in for a treat. I will be toying around with vPro/AMT, never had the chance before.

Finally, my new desktop (i7/16GB RAM/256GB SSD) and the replacement user desktop alongside it. No need for a Xeon/CAD heavy GPU.
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We are getting ready to pull out all our powerconnect switches over the next year.

First to go are the 6224's on our SAN network
 
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