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Network Security Appliance with Layer 3 VLAN capability
I am looking for a NSA device like the Fortigate 100D http://www.fortinet.com/sites/default/files/productdatasheets/FortiGate-100D.pdf but i want it to have Layer 3 VLAN capability just like the CISCO...
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ServeTheHome Forums 10,000 posts!
Wanted to be apart of this. As of typing... 9,993 posts so this will make 9,994. Seems like much busier lately which is great.
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Dell C6100 - 4 Nodes, Redunant Power, and Heatsinks - $225
Hello community! I have several Dell C6100 servers in stock. I'm selling the barebone server - 4 nodes, heatsinks, and redundant power supplies for $225 + shipping. These take the 5500/5600 series...
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Patrick's "Going to get married" FS Thread (updated often)
Since I am about to get married I have noticed two forces at work: Fiancee probably would like less server equipment around (strange since she is the programmer) Weddings are expensive So time to start...
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KVM switches for NUC farm
Hi I am looking to build a NUC farm with up to 16 NUC and then 2 atom c2550 machines for shared services. I am getting stuck on KVM and power control. I'm trying to figure out if there is a cheap way...
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Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces Parity and SSD Journalling
Piglover posted an excellent test series using Storage Spaces Tiers and SSD cache: 501 I've been testing a pile of different RAID combinations, NAS units etc. in the quest for the best affordable 10GbE...
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Help me decide what Controller Card I need
I need help deciding what controller would work best for me. I have my build posted HERE. 4 disks for an array First and foremost, I need redundancy. I am thinking RAID 10 would work well but I am open...
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Living the dream, building our own server room from scratch!
This is a build log for our project where we are building our own server room. We who are doing this are me, Legen, and my friend registered here on STH as Krazos. We are 25 and 20 years old...
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Taming the C6100
I picked up on of the C6100 cloud server chassis as described here and listed here. It arrived today, CPUs and memory coming soon. I mentioned in the other thread that I plan to see if I can tame it a...
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Which (inexpensive) controller for RAID 0 SSDs ?
Hello I'm building a rig for video post production. I would like to RAID 4 SSDs for my media folder. I was contemplating buying either 4 Crucial M500/M550 or 4 Samsung 500 EVO. My only goal is read...
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XenForo Change Over - Please give comments!
Ended up getting the URL rewrites to work on a test environment just after a SQL dump/ import. Decided to just do the cutover so very exciting! Of course, everything probably looks a bit funky. Let me...
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Ethernet Switched PDU (8 outlet) $50
I was looking at that NUC farm thread Got me looking at PDUs and saw this one $50 OBO with lots available. Baytech RPC 3 8 Outlet Remote Power Managenet Unit | eBay I am thinking of getting... Ethernet...
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Updating the STH Colocation Architecture 2014
Today I wanted to start an initial thread on updating the STH colocation architecture for 2014. This is likely going to take a few weeks. As a quick recap, the Dell C6100's have worked great thus far...
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Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite Initial Home Setup Configuraiton
Patrick submitted a new resource: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite Initial Home Setup Configuraiton - Get up and running for a home router Today I setup a EdgeRouter Lite. It came with firmware revision 1.2...
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IBM M1015 Controller on ESXi for RAID capability
Hi all, I'm wondering if I'm going down the right path here. I've already ordered the hardware, but it seems most people are using the M1015 (LSA-9240-8i) with the intent of a simple SATA3/SAS2 JBOD...
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How to remotely manage HP Proliant S6500/SL170s
I am looking at this server HP Proliant S6500 4U 16x Xeon Six Core X5650 2 66GHz 8XNODE SL170S G6 No HD 96GB | eBay and seriously considering it for my production environment for colocation Now the...
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Home mini Data Center
Hello everybody. I'm a new user from Spain, and while I was looking for info for my Setup, I've found this excellent forum, with the incredible setups showed here. I'm currently ending my Computer...
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Can the UBNT EdgeRouter Lite do 95th?
Like the title says, for $90 seems like a good deal but can these do 95th percentile billing or at least show the data for it?
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LSI 9207-8i for VMware VSAN Storage
Hi, I read this excellent blog post on how VMware tuned a 32-node cluster to get 2 million IOPs: How to Supercharge your Virtual SAN Cluster (2 Million IOPS!!!) | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs I'm...
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