Server pictures from February, 2003
This page has some pictures of the server cabinet as it
existed in February of 2003. Older pictures (from 2000) can be found
here, and current pictures can be
found here.
Since I've received many requests saying "so, what does all this stuff
look like?", I decided to take some quick pictures to show you. Each of
the following pictures is clickable to display an image twice as large. And
yes, all of this stuff is really in my house...
This is the overall view of the cabinet. From the top down are:
- Cisco Catalyst 5505 switch. This has 48 10/100 Ethernet ports and two
100Mbit/second fiber ports. It also has the RSM (Route Switch Module) so it
functions as a Cisco 7500-series router as well.
- Cisco 2621 router. This handles my two outgoing T1 connections as well as
4 VoIP (Voice over IP) ports.
- A shelf with a 40/80GB DLT drive (attached to the DS10 below the shelf) and
a 12GB 5-tape DAT autoloader, connected to the ISP2150G below the shelf.
- Compaq [DEC] DS10 server. This is the box I use for an email server. It
runs VMS.The gold-colored bar below it is just used to support it (the bar is
mounted on the center set of rails in the rack).
- One of two APC AP9210 8-outlet remote reboot boxes.
- An Intel ISP2150G server (2 1GHz Pentium III CPUs with 1GB of RAM) running
BSD/OS. This system is the web server for www.glaver.org, among other uses.
- 6 Snap 4100 servers, each with 4 120GB drives. That's 480GB each, or 2.88TB
total. These servers are mirrored at Amanda's for backup and redundancy.
- Cisco 2511RJ router. This has 16 serial ports which are connected to the
serial console ports of the various systems in the rack.
- The second AP9210 reboot box.
- APC Symmetra UPS. This is a 6KVA unit which can run the equipment for about
an hour in the event of a power failure.
If you're very observant, you might have noticed that this rack seems to be
sitting on a platform with a plywood top. Because the loaded rack weighs about
1000 pounds (the UPS alone is 500 pounds), I needed to distribute the weight
across a larger area of the floor. There are 5 4x4's running at 90 degree angles
to the floor joists, and then 2 layers of 3/4" plywood on top of that.
A close-up of the top half of the cabinet.
A close-up of the bottom half of the cabinet.
The Snap servers in a close-up view.
