Your home server & Network

Current, work in progress while I fix all my fibre stuff back up:

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Since the photo I have added a 2nd 1760 and a Foundry Networks EdgeIron 24G-A (24 port Gigabit L2 managed switch)

Old:

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Dont mind at all!

The 1760 is my boundry router, the 2nd one is for CCNP purposes. The 3Com 4900 L3 is my core router which takes care of inter-VLAN routing etc. This is outgoing and is soon to be replaced full-time by the 4908G-L3 which is a far superior switch in every way apart from port numbers, but thats a bit irrelevant really :p. The Foundry I bought to increase my exposure to non-Cisco switching but also scratched my itch to move all the way to a full gigabit LAN. This replaces my 3548XL as my 'production' client switching, leaving it free for CCNP purposes. The aironet on top does the obvious.

The bottom 4U box is my NAS - currently only 2.2Tb but set for expansion. Then you can see an old DL360 which has my VMware "production" environment on it, my Domain Controller etc etc. The DL360G4 above it is currently not in use but will be as soon as some parts show up. I have two 146Gb 15k SCSI disks waiting to go in it and that will have vSphere 4 Enterprise on it and take over from the old DL360 which will be retired to be a Linux development environment (although still on VMWare ESX).

Above that there is a Dell PE2650 which I have graciously allowed to live in my rack, it belongs to my housemate and he is using it to host his virtual servers (DC, Exchange etc). There is also his 2948G-L3 switch for cisco learning purposes too.

I suppose a direct answer to your question is "not much, really" :D

EDIT: The 'old' photo shows two extra bits of kit, a dual quad-core server and a FC SAN. Sadly not mine :(
 
The 4GB FC san would be mine ;)

DRZ, knew as soon as I saw the thread that you would have been the last one to post in it. How's the NBAR Traffic shaping going, solved your ireland induced torrent issues?

christophe52, how are you dealing with the 6X1T drives? Are you implimenting a hardware raid controller, relying on windows software raid or even leaving them as a JBOD?

I am guessing a PCIE SATA controller is in use anyway to cover the 8 needed SATA ports?

//TrX
 
While we're claiming things,

The rack pictures in DRZ's lower image, is mine, also featured in my network at post #63

Let's just say it's a well travelled rack!

The fan tray also belongs to me, the power..ahem 'distro' was a group effort
 
I don't remember if it was in star or chained form, i think it was star which is the slightly safer (chaining mutligangs is bad because it increases your earth loop impedance meaning it takes more current to trip your breakers, creating a higher risk)

Could be why we were sparking those IP330's without it tripping
 
Hi TrX Yes i have 2x 4 port sata cards but using Windows Home Server to control the raid side of it all i did was add each drive in hyperv as a scsi drive and let whs do the rest
 
I've seen a number of people do iSCSI presentation even though it's on the local machine. I was just curious as to what was 'best'.
Keeping in mind that I want drive extender to handle everything.
 
When i was setting the machine up the way i have done it was the only way after doing some reading that hyper v can see that many drives and it seams to work quite well and the spead from the vm seems very consistant and fast enough to stream anyting i have put on it so far
 
i got a 2u rackmount server on ebay for £5! about a month ago. its only P3 1GHZ X2, and it wont boot from disc, so i am probably going to get some components soon (new motherboard, cpu) and use it as a file server/game server for when people come round to play battlefield 2!
 
Where do you guys get your equipment from? I've seen some on ebay but I always think the stuff is going to be broken.
 
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