Subject: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet? Date: Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 06:28:57PM -0500 Quoting Charles N Wyble (charles@knownelement.com):
Hey all,
I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers?
I'm trying not to have anything. Mail, AFS fileserver, shell host, etc are in a colo. But, I fail. Current telecoms shack (laundry room, because there Telia terminates) has Cisco 837 terminating DSL, doing NAT and HE.net tunnel endpoint (where's my t-shirt, Owen? ;-), linksys AP and some patching, both for POTS and Ethernet. The garage is currently only FE, thanks to only two pairs available in the cable there. I'm planning for SM fibre to the garage. I'm doing a distributed patching solution in order to be able to use existing conduit as much as possible for higher WAF. (There is HAF as well, but in our home it's less likely to impact cabling.) The media / living room has a new-built wall in which I've installed a Rittal 32U rack frame. Its back will be encased in drywall and looks just like a wine storage fridge, thanks to its perspex door. There I've got an 24-port switch, a patch panel, and all media gear, players for CD and DVD, NFS server for my slightly altered Samsung TV, etc. The analog patch panel (4.4mm Bantam jacks, 96-point jackfield, all balanced) for audio together with distribution amplifiers and Arduino based power sequencing and multiroom switching will be there too. The bedroom floor will get a patch panel and a silent GE/FE switch, just to have two-four Ethernet jacks per bedroom. The garage, finally, will have a 42HE cabinet standing on top of raised flooring in a to-be-constructed partition of the garage, also doubling as workshop and non-freezing storage area. I guess I'll keep the room above freezing with servers running. Equipment there is a bit uncertain, but probably will be host for thin clients, backup server, tape library, GE switch, and UPS, possibly some museum equipment too. This takes ages to build. I've got a life, sort of. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 I would like to urinate in an OVULAR, porcelain pool --