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Title: Just built myself..
Post by: Binary Shadow on July 20, 2012, 22:16:56 PM
.. a rack of sorts:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8432/7611648798_efae08667b_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/12512629@N07/7611648798/)
Rack (http://www.flickr.com/photos/12512629@N07/7611648798/) by Adam Woodford (http://www.flickr.com/people/12512629@N07/), on Flickr

Bit of spare unistrut and some fittings, plus an evening with a hacksaw and spanners.. im quite happy with it

Holds my new VMWare lab nicely.
Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: XEntity on July 20, 2012, 22:43:16 PM
Nice work, personal kit or work lab?

What's the specs? Looks a hefty bit of kit!
Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: Binary Shadow on July 20, 2012, 22:57:52 PM
its all my own kit

2x HP DL380 G5's with a pair of 72GB discs, 2 quad core xeons and 8GB RAM each
1x EMC CX3-10c SAN with 15 146GB discs
1x Qlogic FC switch

I also have a Dell 5424 24 port managed gigabit switch on the way
Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on July 21, 2012, 00:21:11 AM
Nice rack :heehaw:

If I ever fill my Microserver I wouldn't mind something like that for another unRAID box.
Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: soopahfly on July 21, 2012, 08:34:07 AM
WHAT WAS THAT YOU SAID? I CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE NOISE OF THOSE FANS!

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Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 21, 2012, 19:29:35 PM
Quote from: soopahfly on July 21, 2012, 08:34:07 AM
WHAT WAS THAT YOU SAID? I CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE NOISE OF THOSE FANS!

Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2

Or the noise of the knocking on the door by the bailiffs from the electric company!.

JEEZUS!
Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: Pete on July 25, 2012, 22:37:25 PM
28c outside temp.
48c inside Shadow's house.

Looks good, how are you finding the VMware course stuff and is your company paying for it?
Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: Binary Shadow on July 26, 2012, 18:43:30 PM
Just got the gigabit switch so i can actually get this thing working properly.

I was on a company funded VCP5 course in jan, recently failed my VCP5 exam by 10 points, just want to be able to play about with this stuff without risking breaking something important.
Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: Rivkid on July 26, 2012, 21:44:02 PM
Quote from: Binary Shadow on July 26, 2012, 18:43:30 PM
Just got the gigabit switch so i can actually get this thing working properly.

I was on a company funded VCP5 course in jan, recently failed my VCP5 exam by 10 points, just want to be able to play about with this stuff without risking breaking something important.

Awesome! Bit overkill?! I used 2 laptops and a VM running openfiler for the shared storage! :)
Title: Re: Just built myself..
Post by: Binary Shadow on July 26, 2012, 23:40:20 PM
Overkill.. yeah got more hardware here than some of the customers i help support i reckon  :w00t:

been configuring the dell power connect switch this evening, console is interesting, not quite cisco IOS but helpfully similar i think
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