Helliconia home rack gets a visual overhaul

Not exactly hardware pr0n, but let's just say that things look a lot less messy than before.
Before/after pics here.

The main difference between the mess before and the approximate order is that I ordered and installed rack blind panels (to force more air through the equipment), and the panel panel at the top. The patch panel is an el-cheapo DeLock keystone affair. Note that the messy SFP+ DACs coming in on the right of the switch will be swapped by optics (through the patch panel, just like the single pink MM LC duplex fiber that is currently there).

Top to bottom:

• Patch panel (12x Cat6a, 8x MM LC duplex, 4 open slots for later).
• Main switch: TP-Link T1700G-28TQ (mainly lab usage).
• pfSense lab gateway (Intel Skylake i3 NUC), and WLAN/"prod" switch: Unifi Switch 8 - 150W.
• "Gossie": Supermicro X11SSL-F based Core i3 in a Supermicro SC510T-203B. Proxmox VE and Ceph node, includes an Intel X520-DA1 for 10 GBe networking.
• "Fessup": Gossie's sibling, same function.
• "Phagor": My main workstation (usually off). A cheap 4U case with lots of fans. Runs a Supermicro X9SRA with a Xeon E5-1660v2 on it. Nvidia GTX 1080ti for graphics. Except for the 1080ti, that is a full eBay scrape.
• "Batalix": Works with Fessup and Gossie as my Proxmox VE / Ceph cluster, but in addition also is the main file server. A Supermicro X10SAE with a Xeon E3-1265Lv3 on it, in an RPC-3216 case.
• APC Smart UPS SC 450VA RM.

Next steps will be to put wire management brackets in the back of the rack, and, as stated, to replace the DACs with optics.

 

The pictures are not working

 

True, couldn't get it to work. Anyway, the "here" link near the top does work:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=LS0xWDBvSUYwbUx5NFpleUp2dU4tQWwtWndheWR3

 

What is this hanging white Unify?

 

That's a Cloud Key; effectively a PoE powered dedicated arm7 machinelet that runs the Unifi Controller for the "prod" network.