This is our home and small business fileserver and virtualization machine, replacing a similar system which was housed in a Fractal Design Define XL chassis.
Current spec:
i7-3820 (waiting on E5 Xeons to hit our shores then will be swapping one in)
32GB Kingston ECC RAM (1333)
Asus P9X79 WS
Video card
M1015 (IR)
M1015 (IT)
M1015 (IT)
M1015 (IT)
Intel i350-T4 Quad Gigabit Ethernet
5 Crucial M4 SSDs
Mixture of WD20 and WD10EARS/X
Seasonic X-560
Corsair H-100
It runs ESXi 5.0.
The main VM is openIndiana+napp-it and has the IT M1015s passed through. Other VMs include a Ubuntu VM for photo uploading, a couple of work-related wiki VMs, a WHS VM, 2-3 constantly-changing *nix VMs for learning/experimentation/trials and probably a couple of others I'm forgetting. There are plans to virtualize more of the functions of other computers floating around the office/home but that's happening only slowly due to time constraints.
I will do some proper photos once I finish sleeving it but here are a couple of phone pics from the construction over the weekend:
Ready to be racked:
Cables are a mess at this stage and I need to turn the H100's fans down as they're keeping the drives a little too cool, which is good as I'll appreciate the noise levels being a bit lower. I'm super keen to clean up the spot in the office where the old server sat - so many less cables in here now it's not funny, going for a rack was a very good idea.
Update 3/12:
Turned the H100 down to the minimum settings and the HDDs are being kept at 35-40 degrees in ~23 to 25 degree ambient temps. Pretty happy with that. The third fan on the fan wall is now a Scythe Slipstream 1900rpm and seems to match up fairly well to the Corsair fans in terms of noise and performance. Work room is now a ton cleaner now that the switchgear/server is gone, which is a huge relief. We have a large number of HDDs on order and the 24 bays should hopefully be close to full this week or next and we can start offloading data from the other systems onto here
Also disposed of the Norco 50cm SAS cables and replaced them with 75cm cables to lessen the strain on the connectors - while they did (just) fit between the backplanes and the rear M1015 ports it was too much tension for my liking.
Current spec:
i7-3820 (waiting on E5 Xeons to hit our shores then will be swapping one in)
32GB Kingston ECC RAM (1333)
Asus P9X79 WS
Video card
M1015 (IR)
M1015 (IT)
M1015 (IT)
M1015 (IT)
Intel i350-T4 Quad Gigabit Ethernet
5 Crucial M4 SSDs
Mixture of WD20 and WD10EARS/X
Seasonic X-560
Corsair H-100
It runs ESXi 5.0.
The main VM is openIndiana+napp-it and has the IT M1015s passed through. Other VMs include a Ubuntu VM for photo uploading, a couple of work-related wiki VMs, a WHS VM, 2-3 constantly-changing *nix VMs for learning/experimentation/trials and probably a couple of others I'm forgetting. There are plans to virtualize more of the functions of other computers floating around the office/home but that's happening only slowly due to time constraints.
I will do some proper photos once I finish sleeving it but here are a couple of phone pics from the construction over the weekend:
Ready to be racked:
Cables are a mess at this stage and I need to turn the H100's fans down as they're keeping the drives a little too cool, which is good as I'll appreciate the noise levels being a bit lower. I'm super keen to clean up the spot in the office where the old server sat - so many less cables in here now it's not funny, going for a rack was a very good idea.
Update 3/12:
Turned the H100 down to the minimum settings and the HDDs are being kept at 35-40 degrees in ~23 to 25 degree ambient temps. Pretty happy with that. The third fan on the fan wall is now a Scythe Slipstream 1900rpm and seems to match up fairly well to the Corsair fans in terms of noise and performance. Work room is now a ton cleaner now that the switchgear/server is gone, which is a huge relief. We have a large number of HDDs on order and the 24 bays should hopefully be close to full this week or next and we can start offloading data from the other systems onto here
Also disposed of the Norco 50cm SAS cables and replaced them with 75cm cables to lessen the strain on the connectors - while they did (just) fit between the backplanes and the rear M1015 ports it was too much tension for my liking.
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