• Post Your Servers v2: "Not my equipment, but..."
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[QUOTE=FunDK;42902559]6 years after i started to play with servers. [IMG]http://blog.gamestate.dk/media/picforum/20130827_211748.jpg[/IMG] [I]Still no rack :/[/I][/QUOTE] 1. racks are overrated for home use (my opinion) 2. you need some cable ties and/or sleeves to clean things up a little 3. that's one old ass monitor 4. whats that metal thing on the floor to the left?
[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;42912385]1. racks are overrated for home use (my opinion) 2. you need some cable ties and/or sleeves to clean things up a little 3. that's one old ass monitor 4. whats that metal thing on the floor to the left?[/QUOTE] 1. Your right but it's just a pain in the ass to take the servers out from the bottom row :/ 2. Yea i know :P 3. But it works ! (and matches the keyboard) 4. "Cooling" there is an ac but not in the pic
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Df7ESDB.png[/img] Antarctica: Webserver, SQLserver, Misc Africa: Web server Asia: Cloud server
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;42889998]Every company IT ever. Problem is you need to find one that doesn't have 50 friends lined up to get servers from the manager.[/QUOTE] Old servers like that will use more in energy costs over the course of a few months than they're actually worth.
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;42876308]i can't organize them, there's no backplate to put the wires behind also it's a full size psu with a shitton of cables and i can't put them anywhere either aaaalso, the case fans are really loud and it's a big mess altogether. well i need at least 6[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-Design-Core-3000-FDCACORE3000US3/dp/B00945N17Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1384976751&sr=1-1&keywords=fractal+design+core+3000[/url] it has exactly 6 hdd slots
[QUOTE=Flarey;42927009][url]http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-Design-Core-3000-FDCACORE3000US3/dp/B00945N17Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1384976751&sr=1-1&keywords=fractal+design+core+3000[/url] it has exactly 6 hdd slots[/QUOTE] looks nice, might order one later
[QUOTE=Jihad;42926458]Old servers like that will use more in energy costs over the course of a few months than they're actually worth.[/QUOTE] Uhhh, they are the same servers as everyone bought a year ago??
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;42936243]Uhhh, they are the same servers as everyone bought a year ago??[/QUOTE] I think he's referring to the ones like the on i found, which is an old, single core, p4 server. [editline]21st November 2013[/editline] OVH network in Newark, New Jersey is down due to a powerouttage. I guess they don't believe in back up generators?
Can someone recommend a good program to use to monitor my cpu's? generally I just leave windows task manager open on my server, but I'd like a more accurate reading of both cpu's and all 8 cores. anyone know of a good program for windows server's that'll do this?
I know there is CPU-Z and I like Core Temp for temperature wise alone.
I'm looking for more of monitoring usage. kinda like windows resource monitor, but perhaps more in depth with everything?
You could always go the SNMP route, I'm sure there are plenty of free tools out there.
[QUOTE=microsnakey;42874087] Photo of the day [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/h8oWkKM.jpg[/IMG] [url]http://i.imgur.com/h8oWkKM.jpg[/url][/QUOTE] Reminds me of my tour of the testing lab during my internship: [t]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9012934/Camera%20Uploads/2012-02-06%2018.56.06.jpg[/t] (please ignore terrible phone quality)
So I've been offered a [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859107921"]HP ProLiant MicroServer[/URL] at a large discount, would it be worthy of replacing a [URL="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-di510mo.html"]Atom mini-itx motherboard[/URL] in a generic ATX case?
[QUOTE=Van-man;43088672]So I've been offered a [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859107921"]HP ProLiant MicroServer[/URL] at a large discount, would it be worthy of replacing a [URL="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-di510mo.html"]Atom mini-itx motherboard[/URL] in a generic ATX case?[/QUOTE] Looks like it would be. You get more sata ports, a little bit higher clocked cpu. Also get double the max ram. Curious as to what kind of deal your getting though that you wouldn't save up and just build something a little better if you're going with a tower server.
[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;43089051]Looks like it would be. You get more sata ports, a little bit higher clocked cpu. Also get double the max ram. Curious as to what kind of deal your getting though that you wouldn't save up and just build something a little better if you're going with a tower server.[/QUOTE] Problem is getting a cheap yet quality and good looking case with a power supply is impossible. And then finding a great motherboard with the quality of that in the microserver isn't cheap either. Not to mention it's part of HP's server lineup so it's not featuring shit built quality unlike their laptops.
[QUOTE=Van-man;43089147]Problem is getting a cheap yet quality and good looking case with a power supply is impossible. And then finding a great motherboard with the quality of that in the microserver isn't cheap either. Not to mention it's part of HP's server lineup so it's not featuring shit built quality unlike their laptops.[/QUOTE] What are you looking at using the server for?
[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;43089263]What are you looking at using the server for?[/QUOTE] fileserver, so a beefy CPU isn't required. Will upgrade the amount of RAM though.
[QUOTE=Van-man;43089269]fileserver, so a beefy CPU isn't required. Will upgrade the amount of RAM though.[/QUOTE] Oh in that case, yeah, go ahead with getting that server if you think the price is right.
Time to bump this thread. My father suddenly came home with a large rack server from the corner of some storage building for me to fiddle around with. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4249868/PC Bilder/racky.png[/t] (not pictured, another smaller rack server, but eh, might aswell work on the big one) I think it's from like 2005, so I don't expect much from it, but I might still be able to get SOMETHING out of it, currently it seems to have an Apache server and a few other services running. Might try putting ESXi on it and try out some VMWare systems to make it work with my other server. I did however learn that rack servers are basically portable hurricanes.
[QUOTE=afromana;43196100]Time to bump this thread. My father suddenly came home with a large rack server from the corner of some storage building for me to fiddle around with. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4249868/PC Bilder/racky.png[/t] (not pictured, another smaller rack server, but eh, might aswell work on the big one) I think it's from like 2005, so I don't expect much from it, but I might still be able to get SOMETHING out of it, currently it seems to have an Apache server and a few other services running. Might try putting ESXi on it and try out some VMWare systems to make it work with my other server. I did however learn that rack servers are basically portable hurricanes.[/QUOTE] I must say that it's quite a beautiful looking server. Can ya give us the specs of it by chance? And yes, certain ones can be hurricanes, though if it's in a nice, cool environment, gets to be less of one.
[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;43197798]I must say that it's quite a beautiful looking server. Can ya give us the specs of it by chance? And yes, certain ones can be hurricanes, though if it's in a nice, cool environment, gets to be less of one.[/QUOTE] I currently have no idea, as I'm gonna have to format whats currently on it to really access it, though it having 512mb RAM sticks and a bunch of 73gb hard drives, I'm not too optimistic. Might still be able to run some light stuff on it though. [editline]asddasf[/editline] Turns out its a [URL="http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay?javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.prp_ba847bafb2a2d782fcbb0710b053ce01=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%3Demr_na-c00459641-8|docLocale%3D|calledBy%3D&javax.portlet.tpst=ba847bafb2a2d782fcbb0710b053ce01&sp4ts.oid=316529&ac.admitted=1387181347923.876444892.492883150"]HP ProLiant DL380 G3[/URL]. Though I don't ENTIRELY know the exact specs, I do know the CPU is the 3.06 GHz variant and there's 3GB of RAM installed.
[QUOTE=afromana;43198389]I currently have no idea, as I'm gonna have to format whats currently on it to really access it, though it having 512mb RAM sticks and a bunch of 73gb hard drives, I'm not too optimistic. Might still be able to run some light stuff on it though. [editline]asddasf[/editline] Turns out its a [URL="http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay?javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.prp_ba847bafb2a2d782fcbb0710b053ce01=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%3Demr_na-c00459641-8|docLocale%3D|calledBy%3D&javax.portlet.tpst=ba847bafb2a2d782fcbb0710b053ce01&sp4ts.oid=316529&ac.admitted=1387181347923.876444892.492883150"]HP ProLiant DL380 G3[/URL]. Though I don't ENTIRELY know the exact specs, I do know the CPU is the 3.06 GHz variant and there's 3GB of RAM installed.[/QUOTE] G3? That's a bit old, but it should still have plenty of horsepower for your average home server setup.
It'll nuke your power bill - remember that...
[QUOTE=XL5;43201600]It'll nuke your power bill - remember that...[/QUOTE] I do mostly agree with that, but 400 watts isn't all that much for a computer, or a server at that matter. It won't be all that powerful, yes, but it's not a huge power consumer for what it is. if he ran it 24/7 for a month, that's only 297.6 kilowatts/month and lets exaggerate his electric bill saying he pays 12 cents/kw, it'd only be about $37. of course this is the us, and he's not in the U.S. so idk their electric prices. But anyway. to me, less than $40/month for a server isn't all too bad, even if it isn't the greatest server.
[QUOTE=XL5;43201600]It'll nuke your power bill - remember that...[/QUOTE] iLO is your best friend in this situation.
[QUOTE=MTMod;43202843]iLO is your best friend in this situation.[/QUOTE] Well I suppose but you don't really want to be turning things on and off all the time.
Tried to tidy up my server and network equipment today, it's not that interesting: [t]http://i.imgur.com/KNfxRhh.jpg[/t] The Rosewill switch is on the "Home" side of the network, which connects to my desktop, PS3, Cisco VoIP box, my server's Intel NIC, the WAN side of my PFSense box and then to a cable I ran upstairs to the wireless router. My "Test" network starts at the Neoware box running PFSense with a dual-port Gigabit PCI-X Intel NIC. It connects to the pictured Linksys router, which is then connected to my laptop's USB NIC and my server's onboard NIC. Both my server and my laptop have a Hyper-V virtual switch attached to their Ethernet NIC, so I can run a bunch of VMs on the same network. I'm using my second network to test active directory, roaming profiles and later I'll be trying to get RADIUS authentication working so I can authenticate wifi users with Active Directory.
We just got one of these in at my work: [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-C1100-1U-2X-XEON-QC-L5520-2-26GHZ-NO-HDD-72GB-DDR3-Tested-/261355969100[/url] It's pretty awesome. It's going to have 4 x 3TB Seagate Enterprise drives in it running RAID 10 [editline]21st December 2013[/editline] Sounds like a jet when it first starts up.
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;43266135]We just got one of these in at my work: [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-C1100-1U-2X-XEON-QC-L5520-2-26GHZ-NO-HDD-72GB-DDR3-Tested-/261355969100[/url] It's pretty awesome. It's going to have 4 x 3TB Seagate Enterprise drives in it running RAID 10 [editline]21st December 2013[/editline] Sounds like a jet when it first starts up.[/QUOTE]I can see why, that's a really good deal.
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