Me and my setup

[Hawolex]

So where do i start?

 

Go by the nick Hawolex

i`m a male born 1983.

Live in Norway.

Have 2 kids and a fiance.

Work as a truck driver.

 

So why am i here? cos i crave to be a nerd "or geek if you want" i guess.

 

I`m intrested in pc games and network.

Have no school or papers on IT/Network. All from friends and reading up when i need.

 

My Daily Driver is:

 

PORTABLE:   Microsoft Surface Pro 4 12,3" Core i5-6300U,8GB RAM,256GB Windows 10 Pro

 

Gaming/Home:

Motherbord: MSI X99S GAMING 7, 2011-v3

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K LGA2011-3

GPU: 2x MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming 4GB

PSU: Corsair RM750, 750W

RAM: HyperX Fury 2133MHz 16GB

HDD: 2x Samsung 850PRO 256GB in raid 0 "for OS"

HDD: 4x Samsung EVO 500GB in storage space

Monitor: 3x 24» EIZO eizo foris fg2421

Case: Fractal Design Define S Black 

Headset, mouse and keyboard are all QPAD

Mouse - 8K laser

Keyboard - MK-80

Headset - QH-85

 

 

 

But the most important are my LAB!! Right? 

 

 

So it all starts with my Router/Firewall.

It`s and old HP Proliant G5

Intel Xeon E5440 4Core
8GB Ramm ECC
Dual NIC.
4x 64GB in Raid 0+1

 

Running:  pfSense 2.3.3-RELEASE (amd64) 
built on Thu Feb 16 06:59:53 CST 2017 
FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p16 

 

Before i used an all original PfSence box from sheep fence, but it was to slow for my liking.

 

This Connect to my little "SWITCH" zyxel-gs1900-24e

10/100/1000 Mbps GbE ports
Easy browser-based switch management
Quick and easy set up wizard
Advanced network error prevention features
Fanless design

Never had any kind of issue with this one.

 

1. Server on the network

It`s my DC "Domain Controller"

It`s an older DELL T110

Xeon x3430

8GB ram ECC

Running Windows Server 2012 R2

This is my main DC and an iSCSI targer server. "i have an second DC in an VM"

 

2 and 3. Server on the network

These are 100% identical.

New DELL T20

Xeon E3-1225 v3 3.19GHz 4core no HT

20GB DELL ram ECC

120GB kingston SSD for OS.

Running Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter.

These two server work as NODE 1 and 2 on my cluster.

Get VM storage from DC server.

 

4. server on the network

This is a DELL T110 i bout  new.

Xeon E3-1270 v2 3.5GHz 4Core with HT "8 cores total"

32GB DELL Ram ECC

240GB kingston SSD for OS.

Running Windows Server 2012 R2

This work as a Node in my cluster aswell. But gets the little more heavy VM`s.

It also have 4 WD Red 4TB in storage space as a regular server share with redundancy "7,26GB usable storage"

 

5. server on the network

This is my OLD pc.

AMD FX-8350 8 core 4.01 GHz

16GB Ram

480BG kingston SSD for os

Running Windows Server R2 Standard

This is a iSCSI targer server. Shares 14.5 TB of NO redundancy  storage for my VM`s

 

6. Server on the network

This is an Small DELL T20

Intel Pentium

4 GB Dell Ram NO ECC

Running Windows Home server

500GB dell disk for OS

2x 2 TB Dell disk in mirroring.

This is for pictures and important private stuff.

"not a part of my lab or Domain" 

 

 

My DC and Server1 "one of the T20 Nodes are on a Eaton 5sc 750i UPS.

 

VM`s i run are mainly Windows Server 2012R2 but some Linux are incomming. "i try to learn"

WS=Windows server

• WS - Teamspeak
• WS - backup DC
• OpenVPN vm
• WS - setting up for in house Windows update
• WS - Game server for Minecraft, ark and terraria
• 3 different linux vm`s.   Fedora, Mint and Elementaryo
• Win 8 VM
• Win 10 VM
• WS - Plex server "media sharing"

and several vm`s comes and goes.

I have some pre built VHDX i jusk can copy and deploy.

Maybe a deployment server are my next step???

 

Well this was a little summery of me and my hardware.

 

Some screen shots:

 

 

[ChunkHose]

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