Showing off my network setup

[Pancake]

I thought I would share my network setup over here, its made from 2 x IKEA RAST Racks with Raxxable Rack Strips and painted black

 

PICTURES BELOW!

 

Here are the specs:

 

• Zoom Cable Model

• Edgerouter Lite

• HP 1810-24Gv2

• Rackable SGI 3016

• CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD

• Out of shot UniFi AP Pro

• Out of shot Foscam FI9853EP

 

ESXi1 - Bottom server

 

• Intel Xeon E3-1256L V2 (4c/8t) 45W TDP CPU

• 32GB ECC

• SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O

• Antec EarthWatts EA-380D

• iStarUSA D-213-MATX (2u Rackmount)

• Noctua NF-R8 x 2

• Noctua NH-L9I CPU Cooler

• ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB (Fan replaced with Noctua NF-A4x10)

• 8GB HP Flash Drive (Internal)

• 4-Port SFF-8087 to SFF-8088 miniSAS Adapter

• IBM M1015 RAID Card (Passed through to FS01 VM and connects to the Rackable for storage)

• 2 x 512GB Crucial MX100 SSD

• 500GB 2.5” Hard Drive (Random Storage)

 

ESXi2 - Top Server

 

• Intel Core i3 3220 (2c/4t) 55w TDP CPU

• SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O

• 16GB ECC

• Antec EarthWatts EA-380D

• iStarUSA D-213-MATX (2u Rackmount)

• Noctua NF-R8 x 2

• Stock Intel CPU Cooler

• ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB (Fan replaced with Noctua NF-A4x10)

• 8GB HP Flash Drive (internal)

• 256GB Crucial MX100 SSD

 

And here is what I run, and what OS it runs

 

• Blue Iris NVR to record my camera (to to be multiple) - Run Windows Server 2012R2 Standard. Copies all recordings to copy.com also

• Old Remote Desktop Gateway running Windows Server 2012 Essentials - This will be removed soon as I dont need an RD Gateway anymore

• DC01 - Primary DC - Windows Server 2012R2

• Deluge Torrent server - Ubuntu 14.04 - Connected to PIA VPN 24/7

• FS01 - File server running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Stablebit Drivepool for pooling my storage drives. All the drives are connection through an IBM M1015 that is passed through to the VM. All of the drives are located in the Rackable enclosure. I have around 15TB usable at the moment and I will expand when I need to since Stablebit allows adding drives as you go

• Observium - Network monitoring running on Debian 

• OpenVPN server running on Ubuntu 14.04

• ownCloud - Runs on Ubuntu 14.04, its a great way to get all my files from outside and share them with friends

• PLEX media server running on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard

• Power Panel Business Edition to connect to my UPS and shut down the servers in a power outage - Runs on CentOS 6

• UniFI Controller to control my AP - Runs on Ubuntu 14.04

• VMware vCSA - vCenter server 

• DC02 - Secondary domain controller running Windows Server 2012 R2

• Managment VM - I have this setup as a desktop, with desktop experience installed in Windows Server 2012R2

• Guacamole Server - Ubuntu 14.04 - Fantastic HTML5 web based RD Gateway 

 

 

The rack from the front before I put it on the closet

 

 

Here it is placed in my closet

 

 

Here it is with the lights off

 

 

My UniFi AP Pro

 

 

Foscam to monitor my back door

 

 

Close up

 

 

 

[Hackzzila]

I wish I had that...

[Arty]

interior Cameras? dafug

[Altecice]

Silly question but do you really need that much Server horsepower for your SOHO? I guess you do lots of virtulization. 

[Pancake]

interior Cameras? dafug

 

I live in an apartment, and they obviously have keys for the place. I want to know if someone has come into my place. It would also help in a home defense situation as this is the only door they would break into, and I could clearly show the police how the bugler ended up shot... 

[Pancake]

Silly question but do you really need that much Server horsepower for your SOHO? I guess you do lots of virtulization. 

 

Need? Not really. Want? YES.

 

I do a lot of testing and learning on here as well as the above "Home Production" services. Its nice to have free resources. I am using 18GB of 32GB of the first box, and 5GB of 16GB on the second box. CPU is idle most of the time (Although the NVR and torrents use some cycles)

[DeViLzzz]

The police are investigating the OP for running a ....

NVM

[Pancake]

The police are investigating the OP for running a ....

NVM

 

It only draws 170w on average, maybe 190w under usual load. If thats what you were meaning 

[DeViLzzz]

It only draws 170w on average, maybe 190w under usual load. If thats what you were meaning 

Definitely far off from what I was talking about. LOL!  Think darker and more criminal.

[Opcode]

In the right context you can imagine all the things that can be done in this situation. Maybe he's hosting TPB from his closet? We don't know!

[OhhTee]

I really want to see your cable management. 

[Pancake]

In the right context you can imagine all the things that can be done in this situation. Maybe he's hosting TPB from his closet? We don't know!

 

He's onto me! D:

 

I really want to see your cable management. 

 

Its a bit terrible at the moment, I will be cleaning it up by getting a 2u rack mounted UPS instead of my standard desktop one so it actually fits and doesn't slide around 

 

I am also going to replace the multiple 12v DC Adapters with a single 240w mATX PSU that will probably go on a rack shelf or something around the back 

[dzonidev]

Nice setup. However there is a  Network layout showoff where you can show off your network.

 

Also I'm curious how's Edge Router working out for you?

[Pancake]

Nice setup. However there is a  Network layout showoff where you can show off your network.

 

Also I'm curious how's Edge Router working out for you?

 

I don't have a network map, and really don't care to make one 

[Altecice]

Need? Not really. Want? YES.

 

I do a lot of testing and learning on here as well as the above "Home Production" services. Its nice to have free resources. I am using 18GB of 32GB of the first box, and 5GB of 16GB on the second box. CPU is idle most of the time (Although the NVR and torrents use some cycles)

 

Well im very jelly .

 

I currently run an old dualcore laptop with 3gb of RAM with an SSD+HDD. Does everything I need a home server to do, personal VPN, NAS, File storage, Transmission server and anything else I can think of (Also its 100% silent so can run 24/7)  . All my other uni stuff I just use L2 hypervisors on my laptop.

 

Would I want to buy some porper rack servers? YES! could I justify the price.... nope

[Sir Asvald]

SNIP

 

Nice setup,  Here's a picture on my. Sorry it's kind of messy.

 

On top of the Silver Box.

 

DELL PE 2950  2 Quad core Xeons. 32GB of RAM only 6x 450GB SAS DRIVES (added 1 extra) running the latest esxi

DELL PE R200 1 Dual Core Xeon 3Ghz 8GB RAM running Windows 2008 r2 server

DELL OPTIPLEX 760 Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 8G RAM Running my Firewall. 

Cisco Catalyst 500 Express PoE Switch

In the silver box, 

1 1760 router, 1 2651xm router, 1 2950 router, 1 3524xl switch. 

[Pancake]

Nice setup,  Here's a picture on my. Sorry it's kind of messy.

 

 

On top of the Silver Box.

 

DELL PE 2950  2 Quad core Xeons. 32GB of RAM only 6x 450GB SAS DRIVES (added 1 extra) running the latest esxi

DELL PE R200 1 Dual Core Xeon 3Ghz 8GB RAM running Windows 2008 r2 server

DELL OPTIPLEX 760 Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 8G RAM Running my Firewall. 

Cisco Catalyst 500 Express PoE Switch

In the silver box, 

1 1760 router, 1 2651xm router, 1 2950 router, 1 3524xl switch. 

 

How is ESXi 6.0? I have looked at it but It doesn't seem all that different. I will probably run it in a VM, or wait a few months before I upgrade everything. 

 

What kind of VM's do you run? And whats the power draw of all that? 

 

Looks good, I wish I could fit full depth servers in my closet... 

[Sir Asvald]

How is ESXi 6.0? I have looked at it but It doesn't seem all that different. I will probably run it in a VM, or wait a few months before I upgrade everything.

What kind of VM's do you run? And whats the power draw of all that?

Looks good, I wish I could fit full depth servers in my closet...

The pe 2950 draws around 250-300w by itself, so all will be around 500w.

I'm running around 10 virtual machines. Got a couple of Linux servers and some windows servers. Esxi 6.0 is really good. Has as good fee to it, light weight.

[rtpb5642]

Nice set up - OP