HTS's Lab in Progress

hts is green and gray. Do your clients know you Usé your closets for data centers?

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

hts is green and gray. Do your clients know you Usé your closets for data centers?

We aren't a host, but our prod stuff is 151 Front St. Our backup is Mississauga. Our cloud facilities are Chicago, Dallas and Nova. The racks at the "residential datacenter" are the sixth tier down of equipment.

art_of_shred

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

well my office is on the other side of the house. Has a door and a closet that I intend on turning into my data center. Gonna pipe a window unit in there and let er rip

My old home office in Texas had a big floor standing A/C unit to cool the rack. The piping was all painted up in NTG Orange.

Fun fact: The orange spray paint can that was used to paint that piping was the same can that was utilized in the near-famous incident involving @psx_defector , Maker's Mark, and the orange belly... the night before SpiceWorld 2012.

scottalanmiller

Now that IS a fun fact.

thanksajdotcom

@art_of_shred said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

well my office is on the other side of the house. Has a door and a closet that I intend on turning into my data center. Gonna pipe a window unit in there and let er rip

My old home office in Texas had a big floor standing A/C unit to cool the rack. The piping was all painted up in NTG Orange.

Fun fact: The orange spray paint can that was used to paint that piping was the same can that was utilized in the near-famous incident involving @psx_defector , Maker's Mark, and the orange belly... the night before SpiceWorld 2012.

@psx_defector should feel honored!

servers didn't show up....vendor didn't answer email....boo

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

servers didn't show up....vendor didn't answer email....boo

That sucks. Where did you get them?

OK, servers are here. I have one of them up and running with 4x 76GB 10K sas for now. esxi 5.5 is installed, datastore is created, and i'm downloading pbxinaflash green osa for my first trial

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

servers didn't show up....vendor didn't answer email....boo

That sucks. Where did you get them?

ebay. seller name is savemyserver

MattKing

Subscribed! Err... Favorited.

Can't wait to see where this goes, congrats on the home setup (And that find!).

Well, installing centOS who would have thought. guess you gotta start with linux somewhere. going out for a beer then gonna play with elastix.

scottalanmiller

Eeek, a GUI!

@scottalanmiller said:

Eeek, a GUI!

no i didn't do the gui!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is just what happened during the initial install. see i can't even figure out how to run a mounted image in the cli!!!! lol

scottalanmiller

Oh, that's easy. You should check out my blog first

http://www.scottalanmiller.com/linux/2012/04/27/mounting-an-iso-image/

OK so the iso is in my datastore. It's also mounted on this vm's vcdrom. now.....

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

OK so the iso is in my datastore. It's also mounted on this vm's vcdrom. now.....

Oh, so if it is "in the drive", you are just missing the mount point:

mkdir -p /media/cdrom

You are trying to mount to a directory that you haven't created yet.

i just dont know the basics. now looking at dir there are only 3 files....can someone send me a linux tutz?

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

i just dont know the basics. now looking at dir there are only 3 files....can someone send me a linux tutz?

DIR? Linux command for listing a directory is ls

scottalanmiller

You know, since you are on VMware, there is no need to install Elastix onto something else. Just pop in the Elastix CD and install. It's that easy. Elastix is an appliance. For a Linux newbie, trying to install Elastix as a repo onto your own Linux install is way more work that necessary. Treat it as an appliance instead of as an application. Mount the ISO, reboot, let it install everything itself.

David.Scammell

A lab environment? I wish I had those luxuries! It would be nice to play around with some VMs. I know that you can contact your Local Microsoft Evangelist (the ones who used to put on the local TechNets) and they'll set you up with something like 3 months of free Azure service and some special deal if you want to continue it. Just a thought for anyone, like myself, who does not have a budget for hardware and software.