Show us your Servers! - 2013 Edition


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Here is my home server:

It resides next to an Xbox 360 Elite. Noise-wise it's about the same as an Xbox 360s and nowhere near as bad as it's shelf-dwelling sibling.

Recently added an extra HDD to offload the OS, Active Directory & system ISO images onto:

Specs:

Base Unit | Silverstone Grandia GD06

OS | Windows Server 2012 Standard [Hyper-V]

PSU | Cooler Master 650w

Motherboard | Acer AMD RS780

CPU | AMD Phenom X4 2.2Ghz

RAM | 8GB [4x2GB] DDR2

GFX | Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB

HDD #1 | Seagate Mobile 640GB 16MB Cache SATA II

HDD #2 | Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB 32MB Cache SATA II

HDD #3 | 2x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1.5TB 32MB Cache SATA II [Raid Stripe]

HDD #4 | 2x Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA III [Raid Stripe]

LAN #1 | Marvel Gigabit Ethernet 9KB Jumbo Frame [Teamed Hyper-V Port - On-board]

LAN #2 | Realtek Gigabit Ethernet 9KB Jumbo Frame [Teamed Hyper-V Port - PCI]

USB | Fortuna MCE Remote, Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Receiver

Used for:

Active Directory, Backups, Compiling, DFS, DHCP, DC, DNS, File/Download Server, Encoding, Emulation, Hyper-V (2x Linux, 1x Windows 8 & 1x Server 2012 Standard), File Server, Media Server, Scheduled tasks, Transcoding, Visual Studio 2012 services, XBMC & probably a lot more if I sit and think about the VM's.

  • 2 weeks later...

My Home Server:

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Motherboard: ASUS P8P67

CPU: Intel Core i5 2500 running @ 3.3 GHz

RAM: 16 GBytes

HDD:

  • Intel 120GB 520 SSD (Boot)
  • 4 x 2TB SATA2 Drives running in a RAID 5 array
  • 5 x 3TB SATA2 Drives running in a Windows Storage Space

Optical Drive: 2 x LG DVD Burners

Case: Coolermaster Storm Trooper

Power Supply: Thermaltake 700W TR2 BRONZE

OS: Windows Server 2012 - Standard with Essentials backup features

Uses: Active Directory, PC Backups, DNS, Torrent Client, Hyper-V (Windows 7), File Server, RemoteFX (GTX 650)

My Home Server:

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Motherboard: ASUS P8P67

CPU: Intel Core i5 2500 running @ 3.3 GHz

RAM: 16 GBytes

HDD:

  • Intel 120GB 520 SSD (Boot)
  • 4 x 2TB SATA2 Drives running in a RAID 5 array
  • 5 x 3TB SATA2 Drives running in a Windows Storage Space

Optical Drive: 2 x LG DVD Burners

Case: Coolermaster Storm Trooper

Power Supply: Thermaltake 700W TR2 BRONZE

OS: Windows Server 2012 - Standard with Essentials backup features

Uses: Active Directory, PC Backups, DNS, Torrent Client, Hyper-V (Windows 7), File Server, RemoteFX (GTX 650)

What make / model is that x5 hot swap bay?

I've been looking at getting some IcyBox's, but they're so damn expensive.

Edit:- Never mind, found it; Norco SS-500

  • 2 weeks later...

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My media server

Motherboard: Dell 0GM819

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53 GHz

RAM: 3 GBytes

HDD: WD 250 GBytes

Seagate 1.5 TBytes

Optical Drives: Toshiba DVD-ROM drive

Optiarc DVD +-RW drive

OS: Windows 7

Uses: hosting media on my network for streaming, hosting a backup of my music and other files, playing media through the TV, storing backup images for my netbook and main pc

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Top 2: 2X 6 core Xeon's & 64GB of RAM

Bottom 1: 2X 4 core Xeon's 32 GB of RAM

:)

Please tell me you dont have these at home, and if you do WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THEM?

But by far the most badass rack server setup.

All the other tower server setups, I like.

Ill post my rack soon, gotta actually get good pictures :whistle:

  • 1 month later...

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My 6Tb Home Server. Serves all the xbox360's in the house and laptops. Neighbors connect to my wifi to stream from it... They can't get to the internet through my wifi connection.

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I didn't do much cable management. Drives are all cool so I'm not going to bother.

  • 2 months later...
  • 1 month later...

THIS IS HOW YOU SERVER

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Recursive virtualization? Type 1 Hypervisor running atop another Type 1 Hypervisor...

 

Was that just for show or is there a reason for the nested hypervisors?

Server is on the bottom, 1U Dell Poweredge 860.

 

Server Specs

Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz

2GB DDR2 RAM

320GB HDD (OS Install)

2TB HDD (File Storage)

Details: http://www.dell.com/downloads/ap/products/servers/en/PE860_spec_ap.pdf

 

I have a Raid adapter but not using it currently as I am awaiting a SATA power splitter to install a 3rd drive. Also need to purchase another 2TB to stripe with the other. 3rd drive will be a 80GB SSD for the OS install. Main use is a file server with a little Minecraft on the side. Plan to upgrade to 4 or 8GB RAM to help with Minecraft slots.

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Case:Lian Li PC-A77FB

MB: Asrock Z75 Pro 3

Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2

RAM: 32GB DDR3 1600mhz

Cages: Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B 5-in-3 hotswap cages

Controller: LSI 9260-8i w/ BBU

Expander: Intel 24port RES2SV240

OS: Windows Server 2012 x64 w/ Hyper-V role

Drives:

  • 4x Samsung HD204UI 2TB drives RAID-10
  • 2x WD WD30EFRX 3TB drives RAID-1
  • 5x Seagate ST3000DM001 drives RAID-5

 

 

 

 

 

  • 3 months later...

HP DL 180 G6

HP Smart Switch with 10Gbp
2x Quad Xeon L5520 @ 2.27 (16 cores)
48GB DDR3
2x 120 SSD
10TB Storage
Server 2012 R2

 

 

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Running Server 2008R2 for Test/oldSSH

Nessus Security Scanner, Passive Vulnerability Scanner and Security Center running on CentOS

Server 2012, running a RemoteApp Server.

HP DL 180 G6

HP Smart Switch with 10Gbp

2x Quad Xeon L5520 @ 2.27 (16 cores)

48GB DDR3

2x 120 SSD

10TB Storage

Server 2012 R2

 

 

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Running Server 2008R2 for Test/oldSSH

Nessus Security Scanner, Passive Vulnerability Scanner and Security Center running on CentOS

Server 2012, running a RemoteApp Server.

 

 

Question about your SSD drives, are you running your VMs from there and how are they doing. Looking at doing the same but wondering about the type of SSD drive i should be look at.

Question about your SSD drives, are you running your VMs from there and how are they doing. Looking at doing the same but wondering about the type of SSD drive i should be look at.

 

Right now I'm using them for the OS drive, 2x Samsung 840s. As I test the Remote VM stuff I'll end up buying beefier SSDs for my VMs, but for now they are sitting on 2x 500GB WD SAS drives..

  • 1 month later...

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2*dl380 g5

Each has 48gb ram, 1*Xeon 5450 quad 3ghz

Nics

Teamed server van (HP NC380T)

Teamed client van (internal nics)

External network vlan for tmg cluster (low profile realtek DP nice port 1)

Remote support vlan for cleaning infected PCs (port 2)

Ilo

= 7 Ethernet cables

quad ddr infiniband (20GB) teamed for staring iscsi

Storage is a MSA 60 connected to a P800, 8TB in RAID6 for movies etc ant 4TB RAID5 for backups

Running server 2012 R2 with just under 40vms between the two. Using 1 480gb ssd and 1 250gb ssd thanks to Data deduplication there is still room for another 40 VMs

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