New datacenter hardware build

[Topcat]

Quad Pentium 3's sounds awesome. I have a dual Pentium 3 Coppermine rig (the HP NetServer E800). Uses an Asus CUR-DLS motherboard. I'm using it for the occasional torrent or large files backup storage.

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[ratdude747]

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If I visit, I may have to take a look for myself.

[goontron]

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Wow! That would make a nice headless server!

[Topcat]

Re: Windows XP End of Life Approaching

If I visit, I may have to take a look for myself.

She's no longer in operation, shes been retired since 2007 when I pulled her out of one of the datacenters. I still have her here, and no plans to get rid of. Last time I had her fired up, she'd BSoD on occasion, never bothered troubleshooting. She's got 4x 146gb SCSI320 10k RPM HDD's in that SCA backplane. Shes a netfinity 7000.

[dood]

New datacenter hardware build

Decided to make my own thread to share the trials and tribulations of my new Hyper-V buildout. This system has been 6 months in the works, with many revisions to the initial spec. There were a lot of meetings that felt like we were

Originally planned to be 3 HP DL360's and an EMC VNX 5300 SAN, it eventually changed to a C3000 BladeSystem, with 3 BL465 blades and an EMC VNX2 5200 SAN. It took so long to nail down the specs that EMC actually released a new line of products in the meantime, which meant we had to change the spec AGAIN.

So far, I have the BladeSystem and fiber channel backend in house. The SAN is supposedly being delivered today. We'll be connected to the internal network with 6 10gbit fiber links, and from the bladesystem to the san with 8 8gbit fiber links.

Everything was spec'ed out with redundancy in mind. We should be able to drop two of the 3 blades and suffer only a slight reduction in performance. The SAN and internal communications are all fully redundant, as are the power supplies.

Interesting note on the BladeSystem PSUs.... they're 1200w in a very small formfactor. I went to look at specs, and found that they only output 12v. Must be stepped down elsewhere in the enclosure. But they'll do a solid 100amps @ 12vdc!

Anyway, pics of the BladeSystem are attached. I'll keep the progress updated as we go.

[Topcat]

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I combined my old beater server posts with this thread. Yea, I think its safe to say that you have mine beat. I got this server second hand in 2004 iirc. Ran it several years until it began having stability issues and phased it out.

RD, if you bring the 'rango, I may just send it home with you. It'll take 3 mules and a crane to lift it up though...

[dood]

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But... now it says it's your thread

[Topcat]

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^
Use those mod powers and split it off into its own.....my bad, I really didn't think about that.

[ratdude747]

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I combined my old beater server posts with this thread. Yea, I think its safe to say that you have mine beat. I got this server second hand in 2004 iirc. Ran it several years until it began having stability issues and phased it out.

RD, if you bring the 'rango, I may just send it home with you. It'll take 3 mules and a crane to lift it up though...

I may have to...

[ben7]

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You should see the server I am helping an electrical engineer build... it's, awesome!

Can't talk about it much though ... ya know.

[momaka]

Re: New datacenter hardware build

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Ah there it is. I was just wondering where this post disappeared .
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About that quad P3 server - NICEEEE! I sure hope they didn't use 50 mm fans on each CPU, though - that would be LOUD!
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(then again, it's a server. Who cares? )

Interesting note on the BladeSystem PSUs.... they're 1200w in a very small formfactor. I went to look at specs, and found that they only output 12v. Must be stepped down elsewhere in the enclosure. But they'll do a solid 100amps @ 12vdc!

So if the power supply burns out, you could probably use a welder as a makeshift power supply .