As a continuation of the previous post about hardware racking and cabling, to bring more order in the cables and server composition, including cases, cables and overall view.
As a part of cleanup from a previous state, some materials were purchased:
- Rack. Cheapest one, as who cares about the piece of metal. It should be robust enough, so, Lanberg 22” open one, as this is transportable size and could be handled.
- Switch and patch panel – something from Amazon just to be able to connect everything. Seems like it was a mistake to take 1Gb switch, on other hand – take something even like 2.5 Gb will increase the price drastically. Keystones with cat 6A should cover need for now and future, as it’s up to 10 Gb. So, some room for improvement.
- Router. This is the brand new experience with network equipment slightly higher then ZyXEL before. To cover this topic for sure another article needed, but Mikrotik RB5009UG+S+IN with 10 Gb SPF was a right choice.
- Case for the old server. Again, it was some magnificent Chinese build, that didn´t give me any good impressions this time, as previous one. Probably, the main reason for it – small case, as it´s 60 cm, but not 80, as old one.
Obviously, it’s not looks like a enterprise scale environment, but it still better, then aluminum rail cases.
Regular maintenance of the servers, such as replacement of the thermal paste on old processors and coolers, eventually, quite positively reflected on overall server performance. Also, changing coolers orientation improved cooling as well.
In next chapters we will come closer to all of these topics, as a part of application landscape and virtualization. Since last time, hardware setup significantly improved, the only piece pending – GPU, but this consideration will be reviewed later.
Threat this post as an icebreaker for the next posts, that will disclose application landscape aspects. Also, it would be a network article, as that one was quite tough task for non-network guy.
Happy new year. In April.
