twistacatz
Limp Gawd
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I'm not a fan of the v2
why is that?
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I'm not a fan of the v2
I'm quite surprised how quiet this server is. I can't even hear it running with my head next to it over the noise of the switch.
I don't understand your setup at all. Since you are already virtualizing why do you have physical pfsense boxes? Also You could build 1 host (or 2 for redundancy) to replace all that old hardware and still have more performance than all that combined. It would pay for itself in power consumption in a matter of months. Your power bill must be outrageous with all that old hardware.So I thought maybe I'd reply finally:
In the front:
Cisco DPQ3925 providing static IP cable Internet (60/25 mbps)
Qlogic SANBox 5600 16-port Fibre Channel Switch
McData Sphereon 4500 24-port Fibre Channel Switch
x2 1U Sun SunFire V60x Servers (running pfSense)
x4 2U SuperMicro H8DA8's w/ Dual Dual-Core Opteron CPUs and 16GB RAM running ESXi 5.1
x2 3U ION Terastation3 (for a total of 24TB of storage)
In the back:
x1 Dell PowerConnect 2748 48-port Gigabit
x1 Netgear ProSafe 8-port Gigabit
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PS: Yes I know its all dusty ... stuff runs always.
still on the 2.x firmware or 3.x?
I don't understand your setup at all. Since you are already virtualizing why do you have physical pfsense boxes? Also You could build 1 host (or 2 for redundancy) to replace all that old hardware and still have more performance than all that combined. It would pay for itself in power consumption in a matter of months. Your power bill must be outrageous with all that old hardware.
Also why the fiber on such a short run?
The environment was originally built for experimentation, and then I sort of put some things on there that I used all the time.
Virtualizing the pfSense is something I plan to do but just haven't done yet.
The power bill actually isn't that bad (at least in my opinion), ~$400 or so worth of my bill is due to all of the equipment, I'm fully aware I could purchase some Dell's or other equipment to replace it to get a hell of a lot better efficiency, but again its just something I haven't done yet.
Why the fiber on such a short run? I was basically handed the Fibre Channel gear so, I sorta just put it to use, could have done it all on iSCSI I suppose, but I preferred messing around with the Fibre Channel at home (since I do SAN related work for a living).
So in the end, most of the setup was born out of a lab style environment, and then just left that way out of pure laziness.
I have an electric well pump, electric hot water heater, electric stove & oven as well as an electric dryer.
Natural gas wasn't available until very recently in my area.
Even with all that my electric bill was $290/mo, when I added all my servers it went up to $312/mo.
my average monthly electricity bill is $30
And you probably live in a small apartment with gas for hot water, heat and stove. Which means the only items costing you money in electric is the lights, computers/tv, fridge, microwave. Not really big electric items.
I wouldn't mind living out in the rural areas though. I would like to have geothermal heating, well water with softener and possibly purifier, solar panels on roof to reduce electricity usage, house made out of steel-reinforced concrete for tornado-proofing and long life, ... all a dream for me
I wouldn't mind living out in the rural areas though. I would like to have geothermal heating, well water with softener and possibly purifier, solar panels on roof to reduce electricity usage, house made out of steel-reinforced concrete for tornado-proofing and long life, ... all a dream for me
WTF?! You pay $400 a month just in power JUST for that rack of gear and you don't call that expensive? You need to send me some money as you are just giving it away... lol. I'd shit a brick if my total power bill was over $200 a month. It's at ~ $100 now.
I'm hoping that you just accidentally added an extra 0 lol...
wait thats just 78.6KWH costing so much ?
I meand thats nothing. or am I reading the meter wrong?
I'm consuming about 2000 kwh a month.. and it costs less...
okay so that are about 2400kw/h a month still expensiver per w - that impresses me.
You Americans go on brutal wars around the world and use a harsh politic to have stable and cheap energy for yourself by the cost of many others - and still electrical power cost more than in Europe? Where most power is going to be green power which isn't cheap at all...
Green power costs more. The drive in America to move toward "green" power and shut down coal & nuclear is a majority of our problem.
But at least I can afford to drive my gas guzzler.
Not mine by a long shot but a good read if you like hyper-v and crazy over the top home labs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/22/building_it_test_lab_2/