The new Dell rack |
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The old HP rack - used to be a D9000 |
Accessories and punchdowns |
State-of-the-art cooling system |
More cooling. And a safe! |
Top-notch fire suppression. |
Superior physical security |
This is our fancy computer room. It has 3 consumer-grade A/C units to keep it cool. The racks are backwards from how they should be, which is something I'm changing next month. When I started 2 years ago it was 1 rack, the HP rack, which was a D9000 2-way running HP-UX for our practice management system. We retired that in Feb 2008 with a new 2U IBM AIX server and I reused the rack for other things (obviously).
On top of the Dell rack is an external USB tape drive. Inside is -
- 48-port Dell gigabit switch
- Juniper SSG-140 VPN appliance / firewall / router
- 1U HP server running Win2003 Server (lab information system server)
- 2U IBM p5 AIX server (practice management system)
- 2U Dell server running Linux (Zimbra email / collaboration suite server)
- 5U Dell server running Windows 2000 Server (domain controller, file/print server, DHCP/DNS/WINS server)
- IBM keyboard/monitor (pull-out)
- 5U Dell server running Windows 2000 Server (domain controller, backup server, DHCP/DNS, MAS90 accounting server)
- 8-port KVM
- 5U Dell server running Windows 2000 Server and MS SQL 2000 Server (electronic medical records server)
- Rows of UPSs and external hard drives for backup storage
On top of the HP rack is a Dell PC running XP Pro; it is the Gateworks PC, it just runs a little program that acts as a bridge between the AIX server and the Internet since the AIX doesn't connect outside. Inside is -
- 1U Dell server running Linux (Utility server; MySQL / Syslog-ng as a loghost; OpenNMS for network management; And tons of custom scripts that do all sorts of stuff)
- Ancient HP Netserver LT II running Sourcemage Linux (1996) (Utility server; the Dell is the replacement for this one, I'm almost done moving all the cronjobs over)
- Desktop PC running Linux (Fax server, VM server; under the VM is a terminal server running Windows 2003 Server)
- Generic 2U server running Windows Server 2003 (the old terminal server that I've now virtualized)
- The rest is the UPS for that cabinet
On the wall next to the cabinets is the other stuff that won't go in a rack, and the punchdowns. These include -
- Honeywell Excel 15B building manager (a little web server that controls the HVAC system)
- Old 802.11b router that we don't use anymore (replaced by Airport Extremes throughout the building)
- 2 UPSs
- DSL modem to one of the hospital groups in town for a VPN; Qwest local loop
- Linksys firewall for DSL modem
- Mercury temperature guage ;-P
One of the APC UPSs has an environmental monitoring card in it that pages my cell phone when it gets too hot, if the power goes out, etc.
You should have seen this place when I started .......