new lab gear time

Started by wintermute000, September 25, 2016, 07:15:52 AM

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wintermute000

September 25, 2016, 07:15:52 AM
Scored a dual Xeon E5-2670 w/ 64Gb RAM (that's 2x 8 cores/16 threads!) and best of all, tower workstation case/PSU i.e. not 1/2RU ear splitting rack monsters. Has a workstation board with IPMI and confirmed vsphere 6.0 runs fine so no issues.


Going to throw a 500Gb SSD into it to replace my faithful but ear-splitting HP DL380G6 with its 2x 6c/12t and 60Gb (yep 60Gb LOL).


The main problem aside from noise is the crappy pre-SSD era controller, basically can't cope with SSD IOPs, and also bottlenecks @ SATA2. I was also stuck with 8x72Gb SAS spinning rust which was loud, slow and not actually cheap to replace/expand (with 2.5" SAS anyway, since SSDs and non-HP drives are a crapshoot). I'd also maxed out the RAM slots which were also running @ slow-ass 1066 as a result. Other than that I got ~ 2 years of good labbing out of the thing.


This completes my lab HW refresh cycle with my ghetto management vsphere going from a hand-me-down former HTPC to a neat little NUC that's small, quiet and power-sipping enough so I can finally leave my AD/Vcenter/linux/jumpost on 24x7. woohoo 



deanwebb

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September 25, 2016, 10:34:26 AM
It is the burden of my generation to remember when stuff like that was new as well as when stuff like that was literally at least a thousand times better than what we had.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

wintermute000

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September 27, 2016, 04:58:36 AM Last Edit: September 27, 2016, 05:01:56 AM by wintermute000
I'm not that young.... started with a stack of C26xxs, then C18xxs (at one stage I had built out the INE CCIEv4 R&S topology with real kit :)  )


This incarnation is probably homelab v6

deanwebb

#3
September 27, 2016, 10:35:41 AM
Not that young? Sir, I am a CCOF - Cisco Certified Old Fart. :mrgreen:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

wintermute000

#4
October 02, 2016, 07:25:39 PM

deanwebb

#5
October 02, 2016, 09:06:40 PM
Hey, 2 hours of uptime!
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

wintermute000

#6
October 03, 2016, 02:57:59 AM
I turn it off when not in use. IPMI FTW
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