Server pictures from September, 2005
This page has some pictures of the server cabinet as it
existed in September of 2005. Older pictures from 2003 can be found
here, pictures from
2000 can be found here,
and current pictures can be found
here.
Since I've received many requests saying "so, what does all this
stuff
look like?", I decided to take some quick pictures to show you. Each of
the following pictures is clickable to display an image twice as large. And
yes, all of this stuff is really in my house...
This is the overall view of the cabinet. From the top down are:
- Cisco Catalyst 5505 switch. This has 24 10/100 Ethernet ports, two
long-haul Gigabit fiber ports, and 9 Gigabit copper ports. It also has the
RSM (Route Switch Module) so it functions as a Cisco 7500-series router as
well. The Gigabit fiber ports connect to my offsite backup location, while
the Gigabit copper ports connect to the various severs in this cabinet as
well as the PCs in my house. The remaining 10/100 ports connect to various
maintenance devices like the UPSs and console server. The coiled cable
dangling on the left is an anti-static wrist strap.
- Two VoIP boxes, each with 2 ports. The left one is a Linksys RT32P2 from
Vonage, while the right one is a Cisco
ATA186 used with FWD.
- Cisco 2621 router. This handles my four outgoing T1 connections as well as
4 VoIP (Voice over IP) ports.
- A shelf with three 40/80GB DLT drive (attached to various systems below
this shelf). One connects to the DS10, one to the PowerEdge 750, and one to
the RAIDzilla.
- HP [Compaq [DEC]] DS10 server. This is the box I use for an email server. It
runs VMS.The gold-colored bar below it is just used to support it (the bar is
mounted on the center set of rails in the rack).
- One of two APC AP7900 8-outlet remote reboot boxes.
- A Dell PowerEdge 750 server (3.4GHz Pentium 4 CPU with 4GB of RAM) running
FreeBSD 5.4. This system is the web server for www.glaver.org, among other uses.
- Two RAIDzillas, each with 4.8TB of data. They also have 2 hot spare drives.
These servers are mirrored over Gigabit Ethernet to an offsite location for
backup and redundancy.
- Cisco 2511RJ router. This has 16 serial ports which are connected to the
serial console ports of the various systems in the rack.
- The second AP7900 reboot box.
- APC Symmetra UPS. This is a 6KVA unit which can run the equipment for about
an hour and a half in the event of a power failure.
If you're very observant, you might have noticed that this rack seems to be
sitting on a platform with a plywood top. Because the loaded rack weighs about
1000 pounds (the UPS alone is 500 pounds), I needed to distribute the weight
across a larger area of the floor. There are 5 4x4's running at 90 degree angles
to the floor joists, and then 2 layers of 3/4" plywood on top of that.
A close-up of the top half of the cabinet.
A close-up of the bottom half of the cabinet.
The RAIDzillas in a close-up view.
