Adderview 8 ports KVM

Even though i am not at home i bought myself a 8 ports KVM switch from Adderview the AV8OSD.
it is just a nice rack model and it came with all the cables included.
Here are two pictures of it, cant wait to put it in.

Back in tha House!

Owkey first off all. I'm back it has been a long long while i guess a year or more has passed and i haven't changed even a little thing.
My new plan is to make a couple changes to the setup.
What exactly i do not know yet, but my first step was buying a KVM switch, also i have in mind bringing all the cables from the house to this point and also the only thing i want in the rack are rack-able servers so those 2 towers have to go.
So now i have to wait until i get back home so i can start because now im on a internship in Cyprus for 5 months and i have 2 months and a bit more remaining.

Upgrade for the DL380

Last week i bought a cpu upgrade kit for my HP DL380 along with 2gb of extra memory.
It was all installed in just a min(really) and its working mush faster now.
Its for me my first dual cpu server and i am really liking it :P

Pictures/server sepcs (update)

I was configuring the 3th server today and made some pictures after i finished with that.
Here are some pics:

In this picture you can see very clearly the wooden case we build at the back of the rack because the HP DL380 wont fit otherwise so we expanded the back 27 cm.

The bottom server is currently hosting my Call of Duty 2 servers.
The white one on top of that is the one i configured today and will host the Call of Duty 4 servers and other servers.
The back tower is not in use yet but that will be the next server i configure and will run Team Speak 2 servers.
The white tower is my Firewall and DHCP/DNS server and is running IPCop 1.4.21.
But the DL380 is thamn noisy its very easy to hear even if you are outside of the garage!

And a bit of nightlife.

Serverspecs:
HP DL380 G3 (bottom server):
1x Intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz 512 kb L2 Cache
2x 512Mb PC2100 ECC memory
4x 256Mb PC2100 ECC memory
6x 18,2 Gb SCSI U320 10k
HP SmartArray 5i
Redundant Power Supply

Custom build server (2e server from the bottom):
1x Intel Pentium D 915+ 2.8 Ghz 4mb L2 Cache
2x 512mb DDR2
2x 1024mb DDR2
1x 250GB 7200rpm IDE


Custom build server (black tower):
1x Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz 512kb L2 Cache
4x 128mb RAMBUS
1x 250GB 7200rpm IDE


Custom build server (white tower):
1x Pentium 3 1Ghz 256kb L2 Cache
2x 256mb pc133 SDRAM
1x 250GB 7200rpm IDE

Rack in garage almost finished!

This weekend i spend the whole weekend laying the network cables for the rack and placing the rack.
On Saturday i bought some wooden plates to expand the back of the rack because the DL380 is to long.
On Sunday i spend the day with drilling holes and putting cables i used UTP cat6 cables from the garage to the house also i filled up the rack with my servers and did some cable management.
Currently i have 1 server powered on its my firewall and dhcp server the rest of my servers i will configure this week.

pictures will come soon....

UPS

Today i bought myself a 3th UPS, the ups i just bought is bigger than the other 2 i have and its mainly gonna be for my new DL380 G3.
The UPS is from APC and its the smartUPS 1000 and it was a good buy for just € 40.

New server

This week i got myself a new server!
Its a HP DL380 G3 with:
1x Intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz 512 kb L2 Cache
2x 512Mb PC2100 ECC memory
4x 256Mb PC2100 ECC memory
6x 18,2 Gb SCSI U320 10k
HP SmartArray 5i
Redundant Power Supply

Soon there will be a second cpu in there and also some extra memory.
Currently I'm running windows server 2003 on it in raid 0 configuration the server doesn't have a purpose yet but its probably gonna be my Call of Duty server.