Show Us Your Racks

Kei · 27 Jul 2012 at 21:39

Not servers and networking but they are racks.

I had to liberate it from its old location and transport it down two floors and across half the building. (without the use of a lift)

Rebuilt it in an office temporarily to work with another rack that was already semi constructed there. They work together to allow the transferring of various media to digibeta or DVD, with or without burnt-in timecode. This was about half way through construction so they aren't fully cabled and there are a few items missing. These are due to be moved to another site some time next month which means stripping the equipment back out once its all been fully tested.

I'll have a look next week at getting some shots of the other racks in work as there are quite a few distributed all over the place. Didn't have the camera with me when i was in the main server room so couldn't get a snap of that, though it's not as impressive as some of the shots in this thread.

Lorddalron · 28 Jul 2012 at 23:59

oli356 said:

Think I had to be in rommon mode for that. All I got was the switch: prompt and had these options.

Code:

switch: ?
           ? -- Present list of available commands
        boot -- Load and boot an executable image
         cat -- Concatenate (type) file(s)
        copy -- Copy a file
      delete -- Delete file(s)
         dir -- List files in directories
  flash_init -- Initialize flash filesystem(s)
      format -- Format a filesystem
        fsck -- Check filesystem consistency
        help -- Present list of available commands
 load_helper -- Load and initialize a helper image
      memory -- Present memory heap utilization information
       mkdir -- Create dir(s)
        more -- Concatenate (display) file(s)
      rename -- Rename a file
       reset -- Reset the system
       rmdir -- Delete empty dir(s)
         set -- Set or display environment variables
   set_param -- Set system parameters in flash
       sleep -- Pause (sleep) for a specified number of seconds
        trap -- Cause a software breakpoint to occur
 -- MORE --
        type -- Concatenate (type) file(s)
       unset -- Unset one or more environment variables
     version -- Display boot loader version

You could try and increase your baud rate to a higher bit rate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTO5qxti-I&feature=related

oli356 · 29 Jul 2012 at 05:45

Lorddalron said:
You could try and increase your baud rate to a higher bit rate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTO5qxti-I&feature=related

Got it sorted now, at 115600 or whatever baud rate it wouldn't work, the one below it did

Thanks anyway

panomama · 30 Jul 2012 at 15:45

hellarda said:
Some updates to my home lab

nothing compared to some stuff on here but I'm only 17 so it's a start!

New 1950 and 2950 and old 2850 which is refusing to POST tried removing everything and it still won't display anything/make any beeps

1950:

1x Xeon E5405 2.0Ghz
4GB ECC 5300F RAM
Perc 6/i (not being used)
Running ESXi 5.0 off a 2gb memory stick

2950:

2x Xeon E5405 2.0Ghz
8GB ECC 5300F RAM
Perc 6/i
2x 2TB RAID0
2x 300GB 15K SAS RAID0
1x 2TB
Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter
Running ESXi 5.0 off a 2gb memory stick

Top Box: Used as vCentre Server and NFS Server for ESXi Storage.

AMD Athlon II x4 645 3.0GHz
4GB RAM
2x 1TB RAID0
1x 3TB
1x 500GB System Drive
Server 2008 R2

Bottom Box:

Q6600 2.4GHz
4GB RAM
Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter - Teamed.
Running ESXi off a 2gb memory Stick.

Really nice setup there, I am 17 in a few weeks, could you tell me the power usage of the servers and switches?

hellarda · 30 Jul 2012 at 16:34

panomama said:
Really nice setup there, I am 17 in a few weeks, could you tell me the power usage of the servers and switches?

The 2950 uses around 350watts when loaded and about 200 when idle, not sure about the 1950 as it doesn't give me any power monitoring stats but It would be less as it has less hardware in it.

I have no idea how much the switches use I'm afraid. With all that lot and my computer, 7 screens, 2 power amps and 2 powered speakers I use around 1.2-1.4kW

panomama · 30 Jul 2012 at 16:46

hellarda said:
The 2950 uses around 350watts when loaded and about 200 when idle, not sure about the 1950 as it doesn't give me any power monitoring stats but It would be less as it has less hardware in it.

I have no idea how much the switches use I'm afraid. With all that lot and my computer, 7 screens, 2 power amps and 2 powered speakers I use around 1.2-1.4kW

If you're from the UK I don't envy your leccy bill

Edit: £100 a month?

Deleted member 77746 · 30 Jul 2012 at 18:37

Eleccy bill is one reason not to build services at home. Plenty of other methods to do it these days without the cost.

Muel · 31 Jul 2012 at 09:16

But fun and being awesome are two very good reasons for building services at home.

coolamasta · 1 Aug 2012 at 22:35

Heres my little home set up with a 12U rack, I have set up the 3rd small bedroom of my house into a little office/man cave for myself, I installed network ports around the house and all come back up to this room.

There are a couple of before pics when it was sat on the shelf and a heap of mess and then a pic of it neated up with 1 of my 2 HP Microservers and a new UPS.

Kit wise I have an APC network controlled power switch, Virgin 50mb Broadband modem, Netgear Prosafe VPN Router, Dlink gigabit switch, 1 Microserver is for a NAS, the other backup and the huuuuuge Xigamax case houses my SR2 VMware ESXi server with 2 x hex core Xeons @ 4.2ghz, 24 threads of watercooled goodness

Muel · 1 Aug 2012 at 22:45

Nice setup, could have at least got a few more decent pics though.

oli356 · 2 Aug 2012 at 11:34

I want an access server, hmmm...

All done now, just waiting on my PDU with a switch (I bought one but item wasn't as described as there was no power switch)

coolamasta · 2 Aug 2012 at 12:21

Muel said:
Nice setup, could have at least got a few more decent pics though.

Haha yeah will do soon as these were crappy camera phone pics, plus im changing it again next week

Devz · 2 Aug 2012 at 14:17

Looking good Oli

kalvindeane · 7 Aug 2012 at 02:11

How much did you pay for that rack from Australia oli? Was it worth it?

oli356 · 7 Aug 2012 at 11:27

kalvindeane said:
How much did you pay for that rack from Australia oli? Was it worth it?

Austria*

Came to like £130, so a lot. And I had to wait for missing parts (casters) to arrive and then one of the bits of metal to be resent because it was 'faulty'. So it was quite frustrating!

So not exactly cheap but I like it.
Worth the money? I would say so yeah but it all depends what the money means to you

Like it cost as much as half of my lab probably!

Still waiting to see how much it will be when the UK retailers start to sell it.

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Aug 2012 at 19:26

Hi folks,

I was talking before about a new IT system that was coming where I work (Can't say where). I had to remove some pictures as they had branding and names on them but anyway.....

Netapp, each disk is 300GB.

Got a couple of porno's for you.

volkan · 14 Aug 2012 at 14:18

Been meaning to post for some time now. Here are some old unbranded of our various sites, will try to get some more next time I'm on-site. Much of the equipment is set to be upgraded or virtualised.

T/D Rack:

Prod Racks:

These pictures make me cringe every time I see them. Office network racks...

*shudders*

Deleted member 77746 · 14 Aug 2012 at 14:49

Holy cable batman wow

Deep · 14 Aug 2012 at 19:35

coolamasta said:
Heres my little home set up with a 12U rack, I have set up the 3rd small bedroom of my house into a little office/man cave for myself, I installed network ports around the house and all come back up to this room.

There are a couple of before pics when it was sat on the shelf and a heap of mess and then a pic of it neated up with 1 of my 2 HP Microservers and a new UPS.

Kit wise I have an APC network controlled power switch, Virgin 50mb Broadband modem, Netgear Prosafe VPN Router, Dlink gigabit switch, 1 Microserver is for a NAS, the other backup and the huuuuuge Xigamax case houses my SR2 VMware ESXi server with 2 x hex core Xeons @ 4.2ghz, 24 threads of watercooled goodness

Mate, can you drop me an email (in trust) please.
Your trust isn't enabled so can't email you

kalvindeane · 16 Aug 2012 at 16:15

Ok so it is pretty much empty, but that will change with a bit of time.

Not a bad rack for £30 odd quid. Did see a great 42U rack on ebay for a cracking price, but it was too big to get under my doorway.