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    • wirestyle22W
      wirestyle22
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      I'll take some pics thursday when I finish installing the server 😄

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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        Now I have to tidy up... QQ

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          In Greece, NY, @AndyW and I had a home lab that included one desktop on each floor of a three story house, plus a full workbench in the basement with four workstations on a huge metal table much like a helpdesk setup. One Windows NT machine on each floor, with the big four user workstation being all Linux 1.3 machines (Caldera.)

          The server(s) in the basement were the only machines later than a Pentium, there was a Pentium Pro 200 workstation running NT 4 Server with RRAS and Proxy Server 2 on it that was our gateway and one Windows NT 4 fileserver and PDC that powered the house. Everything was 10BaseT through a Netgear / Bay Networks hub! It was an awesome time.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            In Ithaca we had a converted wine cellar that was used and the whole house was wired up with a huge cabling plant. GigE everywhere, switched, with servers on a small table in the wine cellar where all of the cabling terminated. I had a full office built into a separate room in my bedroom, which was amazing. huge monitors, big commercial desk, VoIP phone on the desk (this was all pre-2003) and everything. It was a full home office like people rarely get even today, a decade and a half ago. Full Windows NT servers in the basement, we had moved up to Proliants by this point.

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            • wirestyle22W
              wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller Benefits of Linux. Wouldn't dream of doing that in Windows (hardware wise)

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                In Geneseo we had a dedicated server room built into the basement. It was a large alcove large enough for a few racks and we had it walled off with three sides concrete blocks against the ground so it stayed very cool, the other side was a wall with a six foot wide window looking it, and a door with its own lock. A full scale baker's rack loaded with servers was in there, along with all of the networking gear and the whole house was wired from there. So every bit of computing in the house was located in that one space. It was awesome, especially at night if you walked by and could see all of the blinking lights in the dark. It looked like a large company's server closet. Very professional.

                Of course, the roar was so loud that you could hear the servers faintly from the street in front of the house.

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                • AdamFA
                  AdamF @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                  e basement. It was a large alcove large enough for a few racks and we had it walled off with three sides concrete blocks against the ground so it stayed very cool, the other side was a wall with a six foot wide window looking it, and a door with its own lock.

                  Screenshot or it didn't happen. 🙂 That sounds awesome!

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    When in Texas, had a whole office built just for working from home (need to find pics of that, too) and behind it a dedicated server and networking room with its own power, own AC, half rack for the servers and a wall rack for the networking. It was great.

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                    • RamblingBipedR
                      RamblingBiped
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                      Dell PowerEdge R710 (Dual 2.26ghz QC E5530 Xeons, 72GB DDR3 ECC memory, and PERC H700 Raid controller with 4 X 2TB drives in Raid 10).

                      It is currently running XenServer, but I am going to let a friend who is studying Linux use it to learn how to install/configure KVM-QEMU in the next week or so.

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                      I'll eventually be in the market for a NAS and possibly a second hypervisor, but for now this gets the job done. Of course it lives in my basement, not my dining room table... These images were taken shortly after delivery/unboxing.

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @RamblingBiped
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                        @RamblingBiped Your lab seems to be unplugged and disassembled....

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                        • RamblingBipedR
                          RamblingBiped @DustinB3403
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                          @DustinB3403 said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                          @RamblingBiped Your lab seems to be unplugged and disassembled....

                          I don't have any current pictures with it in operation. Whenever I have my buddy do his build I'll take some updated pictures. I also don't have a rack yet, it's just sitting on top of some totes in the corner of my basement. 😄

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender
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                            Are those RAM sticks tiny? otherwise why so many?

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                            • RojoLocoR
                              RojoLoco @Dashrender
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                              @Dashrender said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                              Are those RAM sticks tiny? otherwise why so many?

                              Do you not want to max out your RAM whenever possible???

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                              • RamblingBipedR
                                RamblingBiped @Dashrender
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                                @Dashrender said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                                Are those RAM sticks tiny? otherwise why so many?

                                Because I can? 😄 The price of 72GB versus 48GB was negligible at the time of purchase so I went ahead and went with the larger amount and had them populate all the slots.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @RamblingBiped
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                                  @RamblingBiped said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                                  @Dashrender said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                                  Are those RAM sticks tiny? otherwise why so many?

                                  Because I can? 😄 The price of 72GB versus 48GB was negligible at the time of purchase so I went ahead and went with the larger amount and had them populate all the slots.

                                  negligible? as in $20? or $200?

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                                  • StrongBadS
                                    StrongBad
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                                    Probably closer to $20. My last server build we got 64GB instead of 32GB for like $35 premium. Well worth it.

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                                    • CloudKnightC
                                      CloudKnight
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                                      Here is my homelab, Xenserver 7.0 running on Dell PowerEdge T110 II
                                      16GB RAM, 500GB single drive
                                      Synology Nas
                                      Netgear Smart Vlan capable switch.
                                      Few ubuntu servers and a windows server 2012R2 template.
                                      All setup on some funky old chest of drawers lol.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @CloudKnight
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                                        @StuartJordan Thanks for sharing it!

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                                        • wirestyle22W
                                          wirestyle22
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                                          Rack in my living room. I used to have a really cool hand painted piece of wood behind but I gave it to a friend who liked it 😄
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                                          New VM Host (Dell R510)
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                                          • dafyreD
                                            dafyre
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                                            My home lab right now is a whitebox AMD FX3800 (quad core), 12GB RAM, 3TB storage running Win 8.1 and Hyper-V, and a hosted server with 16GB RAM, 2TB storage running KVM. Both networks connected via ZeroTier.

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