| New office installation - Part 2: Electric Boogaloo Some of you may remember the last thread with the new office infrastructure. If not, please check it out. But what was pointed out then was that I had a server room, but no servers.
Lo and behold, that is about to change.
It's still a work in process, but I'll post more pictures as it progresses. Here are some for now. Enjoy! |
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 Voodoo288Common Sense DictatesPremium
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Richmond, VA | Nice! Keep them coming. |
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 Dsm1995
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San Diego, CA | reply to mikkopel
lookin good
moar computer pr0n lol |
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 EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
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Woburn, MA | reply to mikkopel
Do you have a link to your other thread I can't seem to find it. |
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| Here you go
»New office installation |
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Is it me, or does it look like that EqualLogic is bowing in pic3? |
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| Yeah it does... I didn't notice it before. Maybe it's the angle. It kind of looks like the APC is bowing too, but to the opposite direction. |
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Id say its bowing. |
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said by Clever_Proxy:Is it me, or does it look like that EqualLogic is bowing in pic3?
Camera lens distortion.
You can see it in all the pictures if you look carefully. |
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EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
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Woburn, MA | reply to mikkopel
I was going to just say the camera is causing that effect. It's a common issue with camera phone images. |
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| Yep, it's the camera lens.
Bear with me here, the PowerEdges are on their way, and once I get them, I'll post more. |
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Uh oh... This teaches me about being impatient! It appears that the rack mount for the PV114X is just a bit too short... It won't reach. In the second picture it's fully extended.
So now I have to uninstall a bunch of stuff so I can move the rear rack whatever that thing is called... |
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| Uhg! Been there before... |
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Ok here goes more pictures... Everyone else is out on Good Friday, but I'm in the office, since I had to swap out a module in a switch to be able to hook up the new servers.
Oh by the way, I'm still pretty much a novice with racks, so comments, please.
Actually, if you'll notice there's a pretty big mistake in one of the pictures with the way the rack is configured. But fortunately it was an easy fix and in the next picture you may see that it's fixed.
Still gotta get a few blanking panels... The room is air conditioned, but I think they make the rack look so much nicer. |
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 brookz
join:2003-06-26
Waterloo, ON | reply to mikkopel
Looking good, thanks for continuing to post pics!
Is that a Dell tape backup drive I see at the top there?  |
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netboy34
join:2001-08-29
Kennesaw, GA
kudos:1 | reply to mikkopel
Been there done that with racks that don't label the U's but have a dot or something to mark it... after a while you get used to the pattern for each U
Unless you are taking the tapes off site or putting them in a fire proof safe, why not just backup to disk or offsite cloud backup? |
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Add two cable management arms to the units on sidling rails. Saves the trouble of powering down and unplugging if you need to get inside and swap a fan, or something else; I mean you have the rails, might as well use them. 
Love those little horizontal slotted mounting arms (last pic supporting network cabling to the switch and the cable to the tape backup), do you have a part number for them? |
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Yes it's a PowerVault LTO-4 tape drive. The tapes are stored in a different building from the servers, and two latest ones are taken offsite every workday. The tapes are password protected against loss.
To me, it's just another level of backup redundancy. Yes, we have redundant hard drives, and hopefully eventually we'll have another Equallogic in a different building. But even if we did that, I would still probably advocate using tape backups as the ultimate last-resort backup solution.
They're relatively inexpensive. They don't take that much space, or effort. They are mechanically simple, and they provide a convenient way of archival.
The only thing where tapes are bad is the speed of recovery. But if the server room burns down, it probably won't make a lot of difference at that point anyway. |
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The bars are Middle Atlantic LBP-2A.
Yeah, the servers came with cable management arms. It actually was pretty much a coin toss whether to use them or not... I'll see how it goes, I might still add them. |
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netboy34
join:2001-08-29
Kennesaw, GA
kudos:1 | reply to mikkopel
Yea but tapes have bad habit of loosing retention and magnetic ability...
We are doing backup to disk and a couple of the older mainframes are still tape since they have to be... (custom code) |
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