Topic 'Re: My home office setup' in forum 'Home/Office setup photos' - dslreports.com

Re: My home office setup

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:12:33 EDT

Dsm1995 posted : what mats did u use for the diy racks? post a build list lol

Re: My home office setup

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:52:33 EDT

night posted : Wow nice setup ! What is the name of the software in ur screen ?

Re: My home office setup

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:23:25 EDT

Zorack posted : Both those 4006's look sweet,makes me long for another Cisco router(I 2 old ones years ago). Did both set you back much?

Re: My home office setup

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:27:06 EDT

CyberNBD posted : Thanks!

Recently had some new additions.

2 CAT4006's with WS-X4014 SUPIII / WS-X4424-GB-RJ45 / WS-X4418-GB each

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:19:29 EDT

Dsm1995 posted : love the diy racks

Re: My home office setup

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:27:31 EDT

Cyanide41 posted : That is a very fine set up indeed!

Re: My home office setup

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:21:08 EDT

CyberNBD posted : Indeed putting in an extra monitor. Not that big in size (24") but i'ts enough considering the office size.

It will be displaying a web page with network and status information gathered by cacti and nagios on the monitoring server. I've also hooked up a digital TV receiver to the component inputs.

I also extended my cisco lab setup.

Re: My home office setup

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:52:01 EDT

Thane_Bitter posted : Love the DIY racks & overall setup - very clean and organized. What’s the new thing on the wall, it appears to be a mounting bracket; are you putting in a mega sized monitor (TV)?

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:21:07 EDT

CyberNBD posted : Some work in progress :p

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:00:03 EDT

CyberNBD posted : These are indeed in my office. That's one of the reasons to choose mostly servers that are 2 rack units high, these are not that loud as the 1U's.

Re: My home office setup

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:56:07 EDT

JJJohnson posted : Are those servers located _in_ your office? Egad. I hope you wear hearing protection.

Re: My home office setup

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:53:55 EDT

CyberNBD posted :

said by gary201:

Incredible setup! Who makes the desk you have, or did you make it yourself?

It's an Ikea desk with extensions. Galant series with T legs.

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:05:15 EDT

JollyStomper posted : That setup is bad-ass! Well done!

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:48:22 EDT

gary201 posted : Incredible setup! Who makes the desk you have, or did you make it yourself?

Re: My home office setup

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:33:36 EDT

hayabusa3303 posted :

said by AndyJH:

That is probably the most outstanding home office I've seen in a while.

agreed

said by AndyJH:

Pure computer porn

Video editing for sure :)

Re: My home office setup

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:40:13 EDT

AndyJH posted : That is probably the most outstanding home office I've seen in a while. Pure computer porn :D

Re: My home office setup

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:23:00 EDT

CyberNBD posted : These are Penn-Elcom Rails: »www.penn-elcom.com/Default.asp?M···p-&-Rail. I used the R0863/2mm.

You can buy them through your local reseller, mostly Music or Pro-Audio stores or Flightcase manufacturers. They also have the wheels and paint.

Re: My home office setup

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:36:55 EDT

Zorack posted : Where did you get those rack rails? Got a link for them?

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:00:42 EDT

CyberNBD posted : If you have the possibility and equipment to make the racks yourself, like I did, they aren't expensive at all. My guess would be 150 euros each rack for the wood, rack rails, wheels and paint etc.

I used 15mm birch plywood for the racks. The paint I used is Warnex. 2 Layers (last = structure) + transparent finish.

Re: My home office setup

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:39:00 EDT

liht posted : looks like they are wood
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Re: My home office setup

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:51:48 EDT

Zorack posted : Those racks you built,are they wood or steel?

Re: My home office setup

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:59:26 EDT

mdaddyrabbit posted : Outstanding setup, very neat and clean. The placement wire management is excellent. This is one of the best all around detailed jobs I have seen in a while. I feel as though it was a learning opportunity for you to share it.
I have been looking at getting a rack for my equipment but they tend to be on the high side. I was wondering if you guesstimate how much you have invested in the two racks?

Re: My home office setup

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:41:45 EDT

NgtFlyer posted : Fantastic desk, very similar to mine. Great setup, great wire management and I like the racks as well. Job very well done!

Re: My home office setup

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:02:21 EDT

CyberNBD posted : These are PowerCons (Blue) and Ethercon's, so I can easily detach the racks when needed.

Re: My home office setup

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:50:01 EDT

Edrick posted : Are you located in the UK or are the plugs in photo 7 Speakon or PowerCon connectors?

Re: My home office setup

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:34:11 EDT

CyberNBD posted : About the racks:
I designed and made them myself. I couldn't find anything that would look nice, fit underneath the window AND was easily movable in case of changes have to be made because everything is against the wall.

The phone-power-control-system. I developed it myself. In the process of expanding the office I got somewhat tired of pressing all these buttons at least twice a day, so I needed a quick and centralized way to switch some stuff on and off. Since the phone has a services button to use with all kinds of things and I have some switched APC PDU's I found that a nice way to handle the job.

Since I own some companies in the Pro Audio / Light and ICT business a lot of things at the home office relate closely to what I'm doing for my living. However, most of the things are absolutely no requirements to do my job, they certainly make things go easier. ;)

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Just finished, ready to be loaded with equipment

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Testing with some spare parts if everything would fit

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Back side

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The racks in their final position, ventilation panels with 2 fans mounted at the back of each rack for cooling.

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Hidden wheels :-)

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Power supply and network cables

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Asterisk VoIP server with digium TDM-400 Card mounted inside.

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Some cable-management underneath the desk: I have absolutely no problem with cables, but I hate when they are a mess :-). (Back-UPS 300 has been swapped out by a Smart-UPS 1000)

Some more specs:
*Workstation:
- Intel Core I7 970 - 6-Core 3.20Ghz
- 12GB RAM
- Kingston SSDNow V+ V2 64GB
- 2x Seagare Barracuda 7200.12 320GB (Raid 0)
- XFX HD5870 1024MB Eyefinity (3 displays)
- Plextor DVD-RW, DVD reader, card reader etc, ...

* Laptop:
- Dell Latitude D820
- Intel Core2 T7200 2.00Ghz
- 4GB RAM
- 100GB HDD
- Nvidia Quadro FX 350M

* Audio System:
- Syrincs M3-220 DT Active Multimedia System (2 Satellites, one subwoofer)
- TC Electronics Level-Pilot
- Behringer Eurorack Pro
- Tascam MD-801R

* KVM Station
- The single monitor next to the audio rack is connected to the KVM switch located at the server racks

*Left serverrack (Up to down):
- Monitoring server (Cacti, Nagios), also serves some management apps.
- Disk Cabinet: 14x 146G SCSI320 10K (Attached to fileserver)
- File / Print / AD / DNS server
- Dev server (Not used a lot anymore since I added the LAB rack with VMware server)
- Asterisk VoIp Server + apps like online phonebook, power control scripts etc.
- Backup server for servers and all other pc's around the home

* Middle Rack: (Up tot down):
- Dell KVM Switch
- APC Power switches (x2, A and B feed)
- Cisco 1841 Router (Has moved to patch rack)
- HP Procurve 2824 Gigabit switch (for al rack equipment, another HP 2626 subswitch at the patch rack serves the rest)
- APC Smart-UPS 3000 (A Feed)

* Right Rack (Up to down):
- Patch panel
- Cisco 3550-24PWR
- Cisco 2950G-24
- Cisco 2621XM with voice modules
- Cisco 2610XM
- Cisco 2610XM
- Cisco 2610 (Console server)
- Cisco 3640
- VMWare Esxi server, 4 Xeon processors, 16Gig ram. For lab purposes (Win / Linux hosts, Callmanager, ...)

*Misc:
- Cisco 7970 IP Phone
- Dell 3110CN Color Laser printer
- Dell 15FP Console
- IME Nemo 96 HD Power Analyzer (So I can keep track of my power consumption :-))

* Office Facts:
- Dimensions 3.75mtr x 3.75mtr (Room within a room).
- Powered by 2 completely separate 16Amp 230V A and B Feeds.
- 1375 Watts Power consumption (Lab disabled)
- 1865 Watts Power consumption (Lab enabled)
- 15 Minutes autonomous UPS runtime for full office, lab disabled.
- 15 Cat5E runs to the patch rack at the garage.
- 2 Independent Internet connections ( 30/5 Mbit VDSL and 15/1 Cable (Backup))
- 36 Harddisks (14 system, 22 Storage), mostly RAID, equals 4 TB of raw storage
- 42 GB RAM
-15 Processors
- Desk and LAB equipment connected to APC power switch for fast enabling and disabling through the Cisco IP Phone Services button.

* Next up:
- Find out how to add the extra Cisco Lab stuff I bought without adding another rack :-)
- Adding Dell 2407 WFP at the wall for TV and NOC/Calendar Messages
- Adding Denon DN110P DVD Player to the audio Rack
- Replacing Tascam MD-801R with CD-MD1
- Adding more storage (probably swap out the PowerVault 220S with MD1000)

Re: My home office setup

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:37:40 EDT

adamtech78 posted : bliss
very very well executed

are the servers in a seperate room?
can you provide more photos?
any sound deadening?

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:41:49 EDT

themagicone posted : That is just impressive. I have never seen a power control system on a phone. What do you use all that for?

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:15:11 EDT

Zorack posted : Those almost look like audio racks!

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:04:19 EDT

beachintech posted : Who makes the network racks?

Re: My home office setup

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:59:48 EDT

Chiyo posted : Very, Very nice I'd hate have your power bill though and those servers must be awfully loud.
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Re: My home office setup

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:51:17 EDT

The E posted : Most Impressive! :)

My home office setup

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:10:41 EDT

CyberNBD posted : Some pictures of my current home office / server and Cisco Lab setup:

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