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What’s under the hood – Part 1

Every once and a while, I like to post a little about what I have running in my “server room” (basement shelf).

I have a rather large shelf in the back corner of my basement that looks a lot like this.

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Describing everything goes like this…

Top Right:

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3 APC UPS’: 2 Back-UPS XS-1300-LCD’s, one Back-UPS XS-1500.

Obviously those guys handle back-up power and are labeled appropriately. On average, I get about 45 minutes of standby power from them, which is plenty of time to either shut down, or get the generator running.

I also recently acquired an Avocent DVR4020. I know it’s overkill, but I LOVE having remote access to the console of my machines.

Next, Bottom Left:

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This is kinda my pride and joy… Goomba—

He runs a little hot for you to see why he’s named Goomba, but he’s the storage pod.

He’s got 6x3TB Drives, 3x2TB Drives and 4x5TB Drivesdrives

They are broken down as follows:

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The VMware Boxes, Spiny and Bowser… Bowser is a remnant of an old AMD VMware cluster that I ran, but he’s alright, but I am migrating to Intel NUCs like Spiny.

Spiny is an Intel NUC5I5MYHE, which for those that aren’t capable of googling, is a 5th generation Intel i5 NUC. the MYHE version of the NUC is the beefier processor version. He acts liek he has a quad core, even though he’s only a dual. I have had phenominal performance from this guy, and I hope to replace Bowser with another one soon.

 

Soon I will have to break down each box individually, mostly because all of them required a little TLC in order to make them purr like a kitten. Additionally, I will soon break down all of the VMs I have running, which will hopefully provide some clarity for those looking to mimic my setup.

 

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MOAR STORAGE

I’d like to thank friends of Goomba for making him fatter!
This brings the total drive count to 13, and once fully reconfigured, 27TB of redundant storage.

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Service Restoration

Alright Friends of Yoshi —
The data drives on goomba are back online, and I am bringing all services back online slowly over the next 30 minutes.

Things will be slow for the next day or so, as the data drives do their thing.

<nerd>
[******@goomba ~]$ zpool status ThreeStore
pool: ThreeStore
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.
action: Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise restore the entire pool from backup.
scan: scrub in progress since Sun Sep 6 14:06:10 2015
258G scanned out of 16.9T at 227M/s, 21h24m to go
0 repaired, 1.49% done
</nerd>
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Expansion Advice

Calling all nerds…. I need help… I have a big problem, I need to find a cost efficient way to “fix” my poorly configured NAS server.

Here’s the dilemma: I have a server with 9 Hard drives: 6x3TB drives, 3x2TB drives, it’s configured to about 66% efficiency beacause I acquired all of those drives over time… long story short, I need to “Temporarily” store 11TB of stuff somewhere.

My machine can only hold 3 more drives without significant modification, and my budget to fix is about $300, which limits my purchases to about 3x3TB drives…

So my questions are as follows: does anyone have any large hard drives laying around that I can borrow?

Does anyone know of any good hard drive deals?