In case y'all care to see, here's a couple pics of the Dude Farm. I recently remodeled my computer room after the water main in our building (which is directly above the server room) broke a few months ago at around 4:00 AM when nobody was around and flooded the room. (I was not a happy guy when I arrived at about 6:30 AM on that dark and tragic morning.) :|
OK, so it's not exactly a "data center"... some of these boxes are pretty old but they all perform their assigned functions nominally well.
Front view
Bottom row, left to right:
Backup and terminal services licensing server (OD Model I: 733 MHz PIII)
External domain controller (OD Model II: 1100 MHz AMD Thunderbird)
Unix application server (OD Model I: 600 MHz PIII)
Internal domain controller (OD Model III: AMD XP2000)
UPS's
Second row, left to right:
Mail server (OD Model III: AMD XP2500 Barton)
Data warehousing/Web server (Dell PowerEdge 2900: Dual 3.0 GHz Dual Core 5160 Woodcrest Xeons)
Firewall/Proxy (OD Model II: 1200 MHz Tualatin Celery)
Network switches
Top row, left to right:
Development server (IBM eServer 335: Dual 2.0 GHz Xeons)
Development server (Dell PowerEdge 2650: Dual 2.4 GHz Xeons)
At the time of the water main break, the 2650 was our data warehousing server and was sitting directly underneath the leak in the ceiling. It had shut down at around 5:00 AM. I literally poured water out of that system. I took the case off and removed the hard drives and sat the chassis in front of a fan for a day. After I had assembled the shelving and moved all of the other systems to their new places, I hooked the 2650 back up and prayed earnestly that it would boot. (I did have backups of everything, BTW...) Low and behold, it came back up without any problems! The only casualty was one of the redundant power supplies.
Side view showing switches and stacked KVMs
Notice that the monitor shows the PowerEdge 2900 with all four CPU cores pegged at 100%. That system is crunching Rosetta to the tune of about 2000 credits per day.
Unfortunately, I only run DC on three of the servers. The AC in the computer room can't quite keep up with the heat output from the servers since we got the PowerEdge 2900. (That puppy puts out some heat!)
OK, so it's not exactly a "data center"... some of these boxes are pretty old but they all perform their assigned functions nominally well.
Front view
Bottom row, left to right:
Backup and terminal services licensing server (OD Model I: 733 MHz PIII)
External domain controller (OD Model II: 1100 MHz AMD Thunderbird)
Unix application server (OD Model I: 600 MHz PIII)
Internal domain controller (OD Model III: AMD XP2000)
UPS's
Second row, left to right:
Mail server (OD Model III: AMD XP2500 Barton)
Data warehousing/Web server (Dell PowerEdge 2900: Dual 3.0 GHz Dual Core 5160 Woodcrest Xeons)
Firewall/Proxy (OD Model II: 1200 MHz Tualatin Celery)
Network switches
Top row, left to right:
Development server (IBM eServer 335: Dual 2.0 GHz Xeons)
Development server (Dell PowerEdge 2650: Dual 2.4 GHz Xeons)
At the time of the water main break, the 2650 was our data warehousing server and was sitting directly underneath the leak in the ceiling. It had shut down at around 5:00 AM. I literally poured water out of that system. I took the case off and removed the hard drives and sat the chassis in front of a fan for a day. After I had assembled the shelving and moved all of the other systems to their new places, I hooked the 2650 back up and prayed earnestly that it would boot. (I did have backups of everything, BTW...) Low and behold, it came back up without any problems! The only casualty was one of the redundant power supplies.
Side view showing switches and stacked KVMs
Notice that the monitor shows the PowerEdge 2900 with all four CPU cores pegged at 100%. That system is crunching Rosetta to the tune of about 2000 credits per day.
Unfortunately, I only run DC on three of the servers. The AC in the computer room can't quite keep up with the heat output from the servers since we got the PowerEdge 2900. (That puppy puts out some heat!)