What kind of bloke gets to play with servers on his day off? A damn lucky one my wife always tell me?.. Am I lucky? Or do I have a plan? I think I have a plan, this is a project I've been meaning to sort out for quite some time, now I have a week off of work, I'm knocking things out the park... Sooo......
Meet my new server wrack, so this is a pair of Ikea Lack Coffee tables, one with the feet fitted, and it's screwed down onto the top of another, with a pair of wheel which I also got at Ikea.
I've reinforced the leg uprights, and I'm busy fitting out the rear with a dedicated switch and power setup.
It's all on wheels so it can go anywhere in my office with relative ease.
And yes, these are my older Poweredge servers (from my fan/noise reduction videos).
Only the top unit is operational, with all the drives fitted and a full compliment of memory (64GB I think is in it). Its socking a quad port gigabyte Ethernet at the moment but I have a whole box of fiber channel cards to go into the machines up here taking me up to 4Gbit per card (full duplex) and I plan to fit two cards in each machine so we should bond up to about 8gbits... We'll see, waiting on the cables to arrive from Hong Kong.
My other item is to get myself a dual Socket 1366 based server soon, just to play about with 6 core 12 thread CPU's (so up to 12 cores 24 threads) and perhaps in the new year I'll go up to the E5- series of Xeons to massive amounts of threads.
At the moment though, load balancing various things on my AWS instances and dropping to my own hosting is more my interests...
And a friend of mine has reminded me of a project he and I need undertake - watch this space.
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