Small home data center

martynbez · 15 Oct 2013 at 11:55

Going to be moving into a new place soon that happens to have a spare shed. I was thinking about converting (with some work) to a small data center. I'm going to be putting in a few servers in there for an ESX cluster and some storage for the host (most of the kit I have all ready).

Shed is less then 100m from the house so putting multi cores of ethernet cables in trunking down the garden is not an issue and power is all ready in place.

Now the question is doing this on a budget. Can't really afford aircon on all the time, security is an issue and keeping things as cheap as possible?

I'll be looking at doing a project log to go along with this but was wondering if has done anything similar?

martynbez · 17 Oct 2013 at 08:31

They plan is to make it build an inner shell with the shed.

It's a way I can have more control over the setup and pull/add new hardware as and when I get it. It's not something I will keep powered on all the time but more something I can bring on-line for a few days.

martynbez · 17 Oct 2013 at 08:41

I would say wooden shed but not a cheap one and not that old.

martynbez · 17 Oct 2013 at 13:16

I think if I line out the inside well enough I can avoid some of those issues.