cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/74770

Been planning to migrate from my Supermicro monolith server for a while and finally finished the migration. Red thing is opnsense on an APU engine, Lenovos run a proxmox cluster, below is a mini PC with attached JBOD running TrueNAS.

Next step is to get another shelf for my Raspi and openDTU.

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      Yes, “Kein Gott, kein Staat, kein Patriarchat” and similar ones are the German versions of “No gods no masters”. Got it from Kaoskvlt

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      Die sind nicht angeschlossen, die zählen nicht!

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        Nur weil Kabel den Anschluss verlieren, darf man sie nicht direkt ausschließen!

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      Thanks! Got it all printed from a friend, fortunately there’s plenty STLs out there.

      Some people are selling printed mounts for common devices on Etsy but the ones I found were horrendously expensive.

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    I am currently also looking for a 10“ rack. Where did you get this one? It sounds like you are from Germany (at least according to the sticker) and so am I.

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      They’re great, super neat small computers and available used for little money.

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    The mini rack is pretty decent, but I wish that the size decided was a 12" or so rack, so that more computer hardware could fit without the struggle.

    I’m sure more stuff will be made the accommodate this scene though.

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      Since most rackmounts are 3d printed, everyone with a little knowledge could just add 2" to the files. The rails are width-agnostic. The power strips could be hard to find in 12", but I’m sure printing 2" extenders is possible as well!

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      It’s in a small cabinet, there’s no desk in the picture

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        No shit, the bottom right of my desk has that same outer layer, and placement of hinges as holes for shelves, but I took the door off for ventilation for my PC.

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          Oh, is it the Ikea one? My wife has that one and it looks very similar indeed! The cabinet is Ikea as well admittedly.

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      My guess, from top to bottom:

      1. Router
      2. Server
      3. Server
      4. Switch (apparently 10.0.0 subnet)
      5. rack mounted drives (JBOD?), probably connected to one of the servers
      6. UPS? Battery backup for something on the rack
      7. Extra cable storage
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        Almost correct! 1. is just a firewall, the router is not in the rack. I wanted to have this separate from the “family lan”. 6. is a mini PC to which the drives are connected, acting as a NAS.

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            No, WAN is the family lan. It’s connected to one of the actual router’s ports (some Fritzbox connected to the ISP). 192.168.1 is inactive, I was just messing around with it when I got the unit.

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    Can you share any details on the JBOD? How are you connecting it to the PC? I’d love something similar for my miniPC server.

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        What are the SATA cables connected to? Does one of the lenovo tiny PCs have an interface for four SATA connectors?

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          They are connected to the mini PC below. This mainboard has 4 connectors.

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            oh yeah shoot, sorry, I skipped past that comment. Thanks for clarifying, you’ve got a super neat setup!

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        Shopping aliexpress most are 2.5 drives. I get that they’re lower power but 3.5 drives offer much more storage…

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          I’m all on SSDs since I don’t need that much storage, so 2.5 is what I need anyways. There’s a 3x ZFS mirror of 1.8TB SSDs in there, 4th bay is currently empty.

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            Damn. Ethernet is indeed your bottleneck there. I love your rack but I’d go more for a higher storage configuration.

            With B2 offsite backup.

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              Yeah maybe I’ll try to fit in some faster Ethernet adapters at some point, but currently it’s mostly just the daily VM snapshots and since those are automated, the speed isn’t that important anyways. Just in case of a potential recovery.

              Offsite backup at some family member’s place is planned at some point as well, but not fully thought through yet.

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                I have a peer that manages his father’s IT needs.

                He setup loads of server stuff there with an IPSEC tunnel to home so he does cross backup back between the sites. He’ll setup something like a game server at the office on a VM mapped to an obscure port then a registered domain so the family can game together. Fun stuff.

                He doesn’t charge his dad for IT needs. They just expense all the server stuff to the business along with a secure location (building has proper physical security) with managed AC for his heavier 24/7 server needs. He can also order decent gear for the rack.

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                  That sounds like a good opportunity for offsite backup!

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      I think 19" is still the standard one, 10" is getting more and more popular and there’s some fringe other widths mostly for niche use based on 3D printed parts.