Show Us Your Racks

LizardKing · 27 Apr 2016 at 17:28

Presumably no one with any authority has seen that mess!
god help them if someone was to come along and move a few wires.

I'm actually quite impressed just how bad that really is

MarcLister · 27 Apr 2016 at 19:49

Those photos make me feel much happier about the cabling I inherited from my ex-boss!

Was that ladder forced through a gap or has it been there for years and the cables have been draped round like cobwebs in an abandoned house?

nutcase · 27 Apr 2016 at 19:59

Reminds me of war of the worlds - if they were all red!

That is a catastrophe waiting to happen on so many levels.

Jamauk · 28 Apr 2016 at 18:05

MarcLister said:
Was that ladder forced through a gap or has it been there for years and the cables have been draped round like cobwebs in an abandoned house?

I thought the cables made the ladder look like a fly caught in a trap!

kefkef · 28 Apr 2016 at 18:16

I've sacked people for less than that mess!

pdw8 · 30 Apr 2016 at 08:52

Bet there is no aircon and power is probably all daisy chained of a 13a socket :0

Emlyn_Dewar · 30 Apr 2016 at 09:50

Wow. That is beautiful. True carnage, in every sense of the word...

I don't even know where you'd start, trying to fix it.

Pigeon_Killer · 30 Apr 2016 at 10:17

The label on the front of the middle rack is at an angle, that would annoy me more than the cables

Jamauk · 1 May 2016 at 09:48

It does look from the first cabinet on the right like it did at one point start off quite organised, and then descended into chaos.

What I'm still unsure of is what was there first, the cabinets or the ladder!

Deleted member 77746 · 2 May 2016 at 20:14

Emlyn_Dewar said:
Wow. That is beautiful. True carnage, in every sense of the word...
I don't even know where you'd start, trying to fix it.

Just pull the lot out and start from scratch!

EDIT: Not my rack but....

http://imgur.com/9ohSiNc

ov_sjo · 14 Sep 2016 at 07:38

Show us yer rack! (home)

Work in progress:

Si. · 10 Nov 2017 at 04:56

Bump.. Looking to do a new home setups as I'm moving house, curious to see what people have now..

Oh Ed not again. · 16 Nov 2017 at 17:38

Went from a sparsely populated 24U Dell rack to a much lower power, quieter and office desk friendly setup.

Got wood?

Had some solid oak worktop left over from the desk built, few cuts and a bit of Danish Oil later. Added some rack ears, an HP v1910-16g (fan modded to silence it) and a bit of cable management.

HP Microserver Gen8 - E3-1220L, 16GB, 2x 250GB SSDs and a 2TB drive for download and scratch space.
HP Microserver Gen7 N40L, 12GB RAM, 1x 128GB SSD and another 2TB for scratch space.

Gen7 does the Internet facing VMs such as TS3, mail, web.
Gen8 does home infrastructure, Plex etc.

Next step will be to move the Synology DS1813+ in, add another NIC to the Gen8 and then LACP a bond for iSCSI storage.

Si. · 16 Nov 2017 at 23:17

Very nice and neat... That's the sort of thing I want to do.. Just want to figure out what I need and what I'll use it for..

I know there is an Ikea table a lot of people use for rack stuff.. anyone know which one?

agw_01 · 16 Nov 2017 at 23:42

IKEA Lack

hellarda · 17 Nov 2017 at 20:42

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This is my setup as it stands... went for the slightly less subtle option

agw_01 · 5 Jul 2018 at 00:37

I bought my house in March and soon after lifted the floorboards to install network cabling. Installed 16 points so far, but may add a few more in the future. They all run back to a cabinet in the under stairs cupboard which until tonight was tucked under the slope of the stairs and getting rather toasty. Disk temperatures were getting close to 50ºc and plenty of stagnant warm air.

It's now in a more central position and directly in line of a fan blowing air into the room. The lower rack has a NetApp DS14 and a few pizza box servers running a mix of ESXi and HyperV. The top rack has a Cisco 3750 PoE switch, 2960G and ASA5520 in use for connectivity around the house. There's also a Juniper SSG140 and Cisco 2901 for future projects.

Storage wise, I have a Synology NAS for CCTV and online backup of critical data, and a HP Microsever with a couple of RAID1 arrays for daily storage.

Once I can stomach the energy use, the DS14 will be put into use. An APC UPS provides redundant power for the Synology and Microserver.

paradigm · 7 Jul 2018 at 06:58

@agw_01 Would the 1242AG not be better placed outside the cupboard?

I had an almost identically positioned setup (cupboard under the stairs), but have recently moved the rack to the garage to keep temps down (both in the house and for the devices themselves), but I always had the APs (one upstairs, one downstairs, one conservatory) mounted high and in the open as I found trying them in cupboards reduced throughput unneccesarily.

agw_01 · 7 Jul 2018 at 12:10

AP position isn't final but the house isn't huge so coverage isn't too bad. You're lucky to get 20Mbps out of a 1242 on a good day anyway. Could probably do with moving it a little further towards the back of the house to improve the signal in the garden. I have quite a few of these APs from when we upgraded them at work so could always add another.

I ran cables into most of the rooms but didn't have the bottle to go into the loft and face the spiders

When I decorate the landing I'll revisit it and chase some cables into the walls to go up into the loft.

The front of the house gets the sun all morning which makes the hall pretty warm with the equipment running. I either need to put up a thermal/blackout curtain over the front door or get an Aircon unit. With the price of a decent unit, I'm going to try the curtain first!

What kit are you running?

paradigm · 7 Jul 2018 at 13:07

agw_01 said:
What kit are you running?

Posted this last year in "Show us your home networks" in the Networking forum, it is, for the most part unchanged barring the addition of IP CCTV cameras recording to the Xpenology.