Your home server & Network

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just started on my little file/printer server, did a wattage test and found out the system only pulls 140Watts when everything is running, while not the best it will do as its going to have a lot of usb devices attached for the home use



its quite small too which is what i need

edit: too much light going into my room and iphone doesnt have the best camera
 
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re slylittlefox:

I paid £50 for that rack, it was being disposed of by a college in Huddersfield, the tricky part was collecting it - yes it does fit in the back of a Rover 200 but i wouldn't advise it!

As for noise it's not a problem - it's in my second utility room downstairs so i can't hear it anywhere other than the kitchen, and really, how much time do you spend in there?
 
dave-lew99 said:
re slylittlefox:

I paid £50 for that rack, it was being disposed of by a college in Huddersfield, the tricky part was collecting it - yes it does fit in the back of a Rover 200 but i wouldn't advise it!

As for noise it's not a problem - it's in my second utility room downstairs so i can't hear it anywhere other than the kitchen, and really, how much time do you spend in there?
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Thanks for the reply Dave. I was bidding on a full height rack in Bangor that ended going for £16 :( Should have offered more for it but it wasn't what I really wanted (big old white 'orrible thing), and I had to take into consideration the drive. And also I had your dilemma of how to actually shift a 42U rack :D
 
Cisco 871 Router

Scarlett (main PC)
Q6600
4Gb RAM
2x500Gb

I'm undecided as to a hypervisor, but currently running Windows 2008 with Hyper-V ontop..

Natalie (Server)
Xeon 3020
Intel D975XBX2
8Gb RAM
200Gb, 2x250Gb, 500Gb, 1Tb. (soon to be upgraded)
LTO2 drive

And as a Christmas present to myself, I'm getting a Acer 1410T Laptop. (Which shall be named Keira)
 
I have just set up a server running server 2003 in the basement, does anybody use any monitorig software to moniter temps, hard drive space etc? or don't you bother?
 
Sp00n said:
Using it in a live environment regardless of how small it is, is much more beneficial than just using vmware on a workstation.... imo.
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Agreed.
I use Windows Server 2008 on top of ESXi, for a home with 5 PCs in, just because it's great to constantly be using the thing. (Plus it worked out cheaper to buy that and a server, chuck 8GB of RAM in, and 8TB in HDDs, than it did to buy the NAS I originally wanted :))
 
vail3r said:
I have just set up a server running server 2003 in the basement, does anybody use any monitorig software to moniter temps, hard drive space etc? or don't you bother?
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I'm running Ubuntu and have some scripts which run every minute checking CPU and drive temps. If the temps exceed my pre-determined levels then it pings me an email and then shuts the server down.

My server actually lives in a small cupboard so things can get out of hand quite quickly if someone covers up one of the cupboard vents :eek:

Not sure the same fears apply in a basement tho. But then again it's quite comforting knowing that the server's looking after itself. :cool:
 
FatalSaviour said:
Agreed.
I use Windows Server 2008 on top of ESXi, for a home with 5 PCs in, just because it's great to constantly be using the thing. (Plus it worked out cheaper to buy that and a server, chuck 8GB of RAM in, and 8TB in HDDs, than it did to buy the NAS I originally wanted :))
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I just cant get over how much people pay for licensing, XP Pro is expensive enough without considering Server 2008, AD etc etc (although I know ESXi is freeware)

The other issue I have is I live alone, so while you can practice certain things, majority of stuff will only show up errors when a lot of users are accessing simultaneously

My "network" only comprises of a QNAP 209 II, one shuttle, a PS3 and a Popcorn hour, might expand a little once I have moved out from rented into my own place in the next few months
 
My network is still in it's infancy, although my last contract gave me a few ideas.

Currently have an AMD Asus T3+Phenom-nom-nom II 920 + 8gb RAM and a 2.5" disk in it for silence, as I don't have a cupboard for it. ESXi doesn't like the NIC card, so it's running XenServer. Incidentally, ESXi chaps, I'd suggest you look at Xenserver, for most stuff it's much nicer to use IME as far as teh free versions go.

I plan to get an eSATA DAS cage [Edgestor do some decent ones] and hook that up with 4 chunky disks in - probably 'eco' models, again for noise and heat reasons.

The plan then would be to use either BSD or Solaris in a VM, and use ZFS to pool them then share it out, or just be lazy and OpenFiler it out as CIFS/FTP.

I have plans for a couple of other VMs - WinServer of some variety to keep my toe in that particular pond, a couple of *nix distros, and I might end up using Untangle to manage the network a bit.

Main client machines would be an Acer Aspire One [will have to check about using Wifi to log into domians, last I checked it was a pig] running Xp, Tecra A2 running Ubuntu [note to self - need a PXE server to rebuild that one..] and my main Q6600/8gb/HD4850 desktop machine.

Nothing fancy basically - I'm not rolling in cash and I'm trying to shift sideways from network/systems support into network and systems management/architecture to try to get me away from the comms rooms and out from under desks.

Oh, to the person who felt 24 is too old to learn, seriously, it isn't - I went from basic desktop support [IE PC World tech support level] to managing systems and networks from 23-present - all it takes is the right job to land in your lap and the right attitude, and I would never have beleived the stuff I can do today if someone had told me back then what I know now :cool:
 
Ian_F said:
I'm running Ubuntu and have some scripts which run every minute checking CPU and drive temps. If the temps exceed my pre-determined levels then it pings me an email and then shuts the server down.

My server actually lives in a small cupboard so things can get out of hand quite quickly if someone covers up one of the cupboard vents :eek:

Not sure the same fears apply in a basement tho. But then again it's quite comforting knowing that the server's looking after itself. :cool:
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Interesting :)

Im just about to build myself an Ubuntu server, would be interesting to see how to create these scripts, can a Linux noob do this or is it more advanced stuff??
 
DJMK4 said:
Interesting :)

Im just about to build myself an Ubuntu server, would be interesting to see how to create these scripts, can a Linux noob do this or is it more advanced stuff??
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Well, I'm not a guru yet I managed to do it! Sample scripts can be downloaded from here: Ubuntu thermal shutdown scripts

They rely on the output from the smartctl and the sensors commands being in a certain format so you may have to tweak the scripts accordingly for your hardware. Not that tricky really. Famous last words! :rolleyes:
 
OK, now I have a photo

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Server is the black box bottom left, you can also see my switch and homeplug on the bottom right.
 
Back at my parents house I have the following setup...

A server located in the garage which is a seperate building, this means my backups are fireproof but I've managed to get gigabit ethernet to it.

The spec is my old P4 2Ghz northwood, 1gb of ram with the following drives...

1x500 for backing up 4 machines, 3 are in the house and I use rsync to backup my pc in my flat over the internet (this works really well).
1x1tb for downloads and sharing media to the other 3 machines

I have virgin media 20mb with a linksys custom firmware job with an extra access point to increase range. Simple but takes care of itself :)
 
Cisco 870 Series with WRT54GL (acting as wireless access point)
3Com 24-port 100mbit switch
Synology NAS DS108j with 1TB
Linksys NAS200 with 2TB
HP ML115 with ESX4 (webserver, exchange server, dns)

Will be adding some Cisco phones and setting up Asterisk... when I have time :p
 
In the process of building my new system will get some pics up soon im running a amd quad core 9600 with 8gig of ram with 6x1tb drives a 500gig and a 120gig system drive.

Running windows server 2008 r2 thank you technet with hyperv installed with windows home server and windows small business server 2008 running as virtual machines soon to be racked in the office once all data has been moved.
 
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