[olug] Tiny rack-mount chassis

Sat Jan 11 01:25:07 UTC 2014

+1 on the poweredge 1950. I have a couple but can't match that price. R410s
are nice as well. I love the r410 as it holds 4 3.5 inch data/SAS drives as
opposed to 2 3.5 inch 1950.

I used to run 50 1950s. Them and my 2950s were bullet proof.

Moved on to r700 series chassis now. They are my favorite.

Currently I run a fleet of r710s rubbing a mix of xcp and vmware and reboot
them about once a year.

Home server is a newer r series. 410 running xenserver. Running sabnzbd,
sick beard, couch potato, plex, samba, in one instance. Have 24 GB of ram
to use for sandboxing, etc.
On Jan 10, 2014 5:16 PM, "Aric Aasgaard" <aric at omahax.com> wrote:

> .......or you could get a Dell PowerEdge 1950 for less than $100 off eBay.
>
> For example
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-1950-Server-1-86GHz-Quad-Core-CPU-4-0
> GB-RAM-PERC-5i-DRAC5-/331103915569?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item4d1754ce31
>
> I have built a pfSense box with this
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107095
> It works well, but it cost more and doesn't have the reliability features
> such as hardware RAID, ECC memory and a Dual PSU.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Aric
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:46 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Tiny rack-mount chassis
>
> I have a spare 1st-gen Compaq DL360 server with Tualatins and atleast a GB
> of RAM and or a couple small 10 or 15k SCSI drives I can give you if you
> want to just stick with what you have.
>
> I used a DL360 as a pfSense router for several years until I switched to a
> dual Sossaman xeon system because I have higher that 100Mbit internet now.
>
>
> > If you really want to do it up, run a SBC or an intel NUC.   My firewall,
> > dns, (monowall) has been running on an SBC for 7+ years.  Not fast
> > enough to do proxying but the i3 nucs I have running mythbox
> > definitely are fast enough.  http://soekris.com/ 4501/4801 is what I am
> running (not sure of
> > the exact model).   I've run them in customer sites with great success.
> >
> > As for dual drives, I just keep a second sdcard flashed.  (knocks on
> > wood) Haven't had to replace an sdcard yet.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The DL360 I'm replacing has all those features and is only 1U... and
> >> it was designed a dozen years ago. Surely progress has been made.
> >>
> >> I can live without the dual power supplies if necessary.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/10/2014 03:43 PM, Hurley, Rod wrote:
> >>
> >>> Not sure exactly what "way smaller" is, but you won't find anything
> >>> you like that's less than 2u with redundant power supplies and fans
> >>> and more than 1 drive.  If you are intent on building your own,
> >>> check out this
> >>> site:
> >>>  http://www.spectrumservers.com/ssproducts/pc/viewPrd.asp?
> >>> idcategory=41&idproduct=220
> >>>
> >>> -Rod
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf
> >>> Of Obi-Wan
> >>> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 3:32 PM
> >>> To: Omaha Linux Users Group
> >>> Subject: [olug] Tiny rack-mount chassis
> >>>
> >>> My 1st-gen HP DL360 server (Sam knows about this) that I'm using for
> >>> my home firewall is starting to get a little long in the tooth.  It
> >>> still runs perfectly, but it lost one of the mirrored drives this
> >>> morning, and I plugged in my last spare.  The build date on that
> >>> drive was 2001.
> >>> Replacement drives are cost prohibitive, so I'll be replacing the
> >>> entire chassis before I lose my last drives.
> >>>
> >>> This server runs PPPoE to terminate my DSL connection, iptables
> >>> firewall, mail server, incoming web/SSL proxy, DNS, and DHCP
> >>> servers.
> >>> It's a pretty light load, and even for that ancient box. I certainly
> >>> don't need much horsepower for this box.  I do want extreme
> >>> reliability.
> >>>  Mirrored drives are a must, and dual power supplies might be nice.
> >>> Dual
> >>> cooling fans are probably wise.  None of that needs to be hot-swap,
> >>> though.
> >>>  I need two ethernet ports (preferably GigE, and 3 would be nice
> >>> just in case).  I'd also like the chassis to be quite small so that
> >>> it can hang in a telco rack when I move next year.  I'd like it to
> >>> be really low power so that it'll run forever off my UPS when
> >>> necessary.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions on the hardware and/or case I should use for this?
> >>> I'm usually shopping at the other end of the horsepower spectrum.
> >>> There's got to be chassis out there that are way smaller than the
> >>> standard rack-mount server, but can still run a standard linux
> >>> distro with some redundancy.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> *Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth* obiwan at jedi.com
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