Hello all,
So im not sure if anyone has seen my current home lab (small rack shoved in the corner of my room actually powered off due to cooling issues)
Since this photo, I have purchased a few replacement bits, from some people here
and have plans to replace/add more stuff also.
Anyway onto the important bit.....
currently in the process of building my first house (very slow progress... i still dont even have a land title.. thanks developers!)
I moved some stuff around and extended the house a bit to fit in a better ensuite.. and office also, I want somewhere to shove all the noisy bits so i dont hear them (first kid on the way also so loud noises will be everywhere, id prefer none in my office)
As you can see at the back of the house, A store room.. Aka Server Room.
Also, Bed 2 Will be my office, I have 2 runs of conduit going on the wall that backs onto the bathroom for cable runs, Fibre/So on.
And, over to the "Store room" design.
Im going for a hot/cold side setup to reduce cooling costs;
Will only house a single 42U rack and be my cable/excess shit storage in the cold side, I still need to work out the finer details, like how to seal the room properly and keep moisture out, but i guess no point worrying about that until its there and able to be looked at.
Cold side Sketchup Mockup
And the hot side;
As you can see its a very simple design so far, hot side is a little tight @ 645MM Deep but it gives me 1 meter at the front to rack (which is also a little tight) - Considering moving the rack to be infront of the door so I have more room, Will also likely change the door to the room to not open inwards.
So im not sure if anyone has seen my current home lab (small rack shoved in the corner of my room actually powered off due to cooling issues)
Router: Sophos UTM9 Running on an atom board 2GB Ram 5 Nics.
Server 1 (First 2U sever - HyperV Testing only): Rackable Systems Dual Xeon, 16GB ram 4x 500GB Sata Drives , Sever 2012 R2.
Server 2 (Second 2U Server - HyperV Core): Supermicro Server Dual Xeon, 128GB ram 8 x 600GB 15K SAS Drives, Server 2012 R2.
San: (3RU Server): Supermicro Server Single Xeon, 12GB Ram has a few 2TB HDD's atm (waiting on new discs to arrive) Also running Server 2012 R2.
Network: Dell 5424 Gigabit Switch
San and HyperV server connected via Brocade 1020's.
The two External HDD's you see under the Router are connected to Raspberry PI running Deluged (torrent client). for uhm.. downloading Linux isos, Clearly
Server 1 (First 2U sever - HyperV Testing only): Rackable Systems Dual Xeon, 16GB ram 4x 500GB Sata Drives , Sever 2012 R2.
Server 2 (Second 2U Server - HyperV Core): Supermicro Server Dual Xeon, 128GB ram 8 x 600GB 15K SAS Drives, Server 2012 R2.
San: (3RU Server): Supermicro Server Single Xeon, 12GB Ram has a few 2TB HDD's atm (waiting on new discs to arrive) Also running Server 2012 R2.
Network: Dell 5424 Gigabit Switch
San and HyperV server connected via Brocade 1020's.
The two External HDD's you see under the Router are connected to Raspberry PI running Deluged (torrent client). for uhm.. downloading Linux isos, Clearly
Since this photo, I have purchased a few replacement bits, from some people here
and have plans to replace/add more stuff also.Anyway onto the important bit.....
currently in the process of building my first house
(very slow progress... i still dont even have a land title.. thanks developers!)I moved some stuff around and extended the house a bit to fit in a better ensuite.. and office
also, I want somewhere to shove all the noisy bits so i dont hear them (first kid on the way also so loud noises will be everywhere, id prefer none in my office)As you can see at the back of the house, A store room.. Aka Server Room.
Also, Bed 2 Will be my office, I have 2 runs of conduit going on the wall that backs onto the bathroom for cable runs, Fibre/So on.
And, over to the "Store room" design.
Im going for a hot/cold side setup to reduce cooling costs;
Will only house a single 42U rack and be my cable/excess shit storage in the cold side, I still need to work out the finer details, like how to seal the room properly and keep moisture out, but i guess no point worrying about that until its there and able to be looked at.
Cold side Sketchup Mockup
And the hot side;
As you can see its a very simple design so far, hot side is a little tight @ 645MM Deep but it gives me 1 meter at the front to rack (which is also a little tight) - Considering moving the rack to be infront of the door so I have more room, Will also likely change the door to the room to not open inwards.
