So I bought a full-sized rack for the garage. Might be a bit too big to call it a #homelab any more š
It came with 2 PDUs that take 3-phase, 60A, 250V AC. I, um, wonāt be plugging those into the house. My servers run on 240V, 2-phase. This plug is just a monster. My hand in the photo for scale.
Iām tickled that it says āSunā on the side. I got my start in #sysadmin work on Sun IPCs and Sparc 4s back in the day.
Itās coming together. I have 2 out of 6 racked. All the power is in the rack. Network and all the actual workloads are still on the bread rack behind and to the right. I will get these 2 servers online, move a bunch of workloads to them, and then Iāll be able to move more servers off the bread rack to the new rack.
I donāt see any way to redo the networking without some brief outages. Iāll have to disconnect the router, move it, and reconnect. A few minutes of disruption.
Thatās going to be the hardest part: the main network wire runs through the whole basement and pops out in the garage and itās basically at its limit. I have about 5-6 feet in the garage and thatās it. So when the main router finally moves to the rack, the rack has to be in its final location and then it canāt really move much.
Either that, or I just stick one of these RJ45 couplers on there and extend the line. I only have 200Mbit service, so Iām not worried about losing bandwidth to a coupler.
Today was the last move. It is all in one rack. Itās all halfway decent. I had a major downtime though because I had a stupid #xcpng goof that required upgrading a server that had live workloads on it. I couldnāt migrate them off. That sucked.
But it looks ok now. And it is so much more compact. I am using some air filter fabric over the front door to filter the air. And I have the front facing inside and the back blowing out toward the outside. I figure the air is cleaner on the house side of the garage.
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