{"id":8993,"date":"2019-08-08T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T05:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2019-08-08T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T05:53:20","slug":"getting-ready-to-bring-server-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=8993","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready To Bring Server Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Server itself is all ready, just got to prepare the location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Server In its final spot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the requirements I got for myself is to be able to move this server running from its location to outside of the server room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Server outside of the room if it gets hot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The inside of the server is where all the problems were all at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside of the server.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first problem (which leads to the biggest problem) was the current raid card, it was some S300 windows only RAID card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luckily I found a great deal on a H310 card which was perfect for ESXi, as a bonus I got some SFF-8086 cables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the big problem was not the data cables to the drive it was the power. There was a lot of trial and error to get the cable. Finally was able to find the right pieces and make one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That cable was easy to make, hard to figure out what I needed.
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Another problem was the drive caddies, it came with rails, I found a place and ordered 10 and they only sent 4, I asked for the other four, but by chance found a local supplier that was even cheaper for a dollar each. Wish he offered a refund rather than product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Standard Dell Hard Drive Caddies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next up was the CPU, it was a single Xeon E5607, I found a pair of Xeon E5649, more cores, faster, and dual socket, for a total of 21.99 which included shipping and taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the CPU heat sink was $76.99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was shocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While I am here I will add that the RAM, 128GB was nearly $200, but I knew it going in so I was not surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally the idrac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ordered what I thought was the idrac, unfortunately you needed an idrac express controller card as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Need idrac and idrac express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first one I ordered was a dud, I thought I installed it wrong, I ordered another one from another vendor and it worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all in all, server is done. Server room looks better, and I have a plan if it gets too hot in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Didn’t work out, worked at home and in server room, also Seahawks played first preseason game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They won, so did I against the challenges of this server<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weird thing is I got so busy I did not eat, weight dropped to 288.0 but official is…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weight: 292.2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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