Show Us Your Racks

Baz · 4 Jul 2007 at 22:45

Will get pics when I re-arrange the "computer room"

Our comm's cab looks messier and more "worked" thatn Dangarous's though

People keep moving desks.

Though we now have two HP server racks with 5 2200KVA UPS's and 15 servers, one CGA, two Fireboxes and a partridge in a pear tree

IronFire · 6 Jul 2007 at 16:59

TheKnat said:
Sounds like what we're up to although not compressing the servers down as much as you. Currently we have 2 x Dell 6850s and a CX300 to consolidate around 30 servers or so.

BTW if you have all that running on 1 serer aren't you worried what happens if it blows ?

Its a test and development setting so not mission critical. About to invest in another box and an iSCSI SAN to add VMotion and make it more resilent.

Caged · 30 Jul 2007 at 21:28

Dangerous said:
God if the air con is switched off those racks are too hot to touch!

Try running a rack full of amps, and servers in a room about 4m by 8m suspended from the roof above a dancefloor. Which doesn't happen to be air conditioned.

Uncomfortably hot doesn't begin to describe it

MikeTimbers · 30 Jul 2007 at 22:22

An old one, the new ones are too pretty to show...

SunFire 6800, 14x SPARC3, 18GB RAM

Hessian · 30 Jul 2007 at 22:45

MikeTimbers said:
An old one, the new ones are too pretty to show...

Aww please show us. We need some more photos in this topic.

paradigm · 30 Jul 2007 at 22:48

Are these racks at work, or racks at home?

My Home rack is nothing too special, rackmount APC UPS, old dial P3-733 IBM netfinity server and additional external SCSI HDD rack (complete with 9x 9.1GB drives in RAID5). Cisco 2611, Cisco 3600 series 24 port switch (half the ports are dead), and an old school 10-base rackmount hub, just so it has somewhere to live

Dangerous · 30 Jul 2007 at 22:51

Mine are at work

paradigm · 31 Jul 2007 at 00:04

Ah, in which case expect some large pics tomorrow

My current "project" rack hosts our new exchange 2007 server, our citrix farm, and my current plaything, the VMWare ESX server (dual quad-core xeon, 16GB RAM), lovely

EDIT: Suppose I could post the two AS/400's too, they are vast.

Trifid · 31 Jul 2007 at 11:55

Citrix (thin client server for 30 stations)
Citrix "
Citrix "
ADC (admin domain controller)
SQL
CDC1 (curriculum domain controller)
CDC2 (curriculum domain controller)
ISA (curriculum proxy)
Exchange (email) & Ghost
Print server
Admin proxy
Media Server
Vortex (file server, 2TB)
& mirror of above.

UPS
UPS

RJ45 patchpanel left
fiber patch panel right
Catalyst 3750 x5
2600 router hidden at bottom
SAN box (another other side of the school)

Someone left us some lunch!
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9796/072707133728yp6.jpg

Me, Mark, Chris. (Disk cleanup before imaging out. Queue the abuse.

)

xirokx · 31 Jul 2007 at 12:05

id love to know what these do and how to build one and what i can use it for...

further information would be most appreciated

paradigm · 31 Jul 2007 at 12:19

xirokx said:
id love to know what these do and how to build one and what i can use it for...

To be honest its the kind of "if you don't know, you won't ever need" situation. You'd already have a use for these kinds of setups if you actually needed them. Unless you are looking to host a corporate level network, then really, its completely overkill.

Baz · 31 Jul 2007 at 13:16

New camera phone, so pics available of the racks

This is the communications cabinet, now this is how you are supposed to have your patch cables

Server Rack1: Note, proper HP servers, none of those 2bit cheapo Dell servers

And the mostly empty 2nd Rack, with a couple of additional Citrix servers....

16 servers for 100 users, all except 2 are HP. Best servers about imho

Will take new pictures when I get my SAN installed soon

ardy89 · 31 Jul 2007 at 14:05

Check Me Racks!

Here's me racks guys, well works racks, 32 Double D's:

Before we got our hands on it (Main Server Room):

and now:

ardy89 · 31 Jul 2007 at 14:06

More pics:

The Network Cab:

shimy182 · 31 Jul 2007 at 14:06

can someone host Gmod for me

TheKnat · 31 Jul 2007 at 14:31

I've just 'acquired' a rack for home use. Now just need a couple of shelves to put in it so I can put my desktop machines out of my computer room.

Laser402 · 31 Jul 2007 at 15:59

Hey there is nothing wrong with those '2bit' dell servers.

Running our school (Trifid's and myn) with around 600+ nodes and no downtime =D

Only ever tried HP's printers, and those Sucked! ;]

I Dont like Dell but for what you get for your money its not a bad choice =]

BoomAM · 31 Jul 2007 at 16:36

Some good, well setup/spec'ed setups on here.

Dont know how some Schools afford the kit they get. I really dont.

What are you all using the Citrix servers for? Are any of them Access Gateways?

Wouldnt mind getting a new cab for work tbh, the existing one is running out of room, half the cables behind and underneath are proper messy and i want to be able to put our 2 servers (towers) in the bottom to cut out a lot of noise in the room.
Unfortunatelly it'd probably cost a lot of time and money to do.

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We should do another thread, called 'show us your work workstations' for all the fellow admins/network managers/techies on here.

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Oblivious · 31 Jul 2007 at 18:34

I would take some photos of the racks/datacentre at work. But its not wise in an Enterprise environment

So you will have to imagine dozens of racks filled with HP servers, the IBM SANs and all the rest.

jak731 · 31 Jul 2007 at 19:47

I wouldn't be surprised if traditional datacenters get more or less replaced by sun microsystems Blackbox or something similar.

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp