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@dcc@annihilation.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz networking equipment is one of those things I prefer to put in rack, mainly because of your consumer or Prosumer you're not often going to hit the load where they start making a lot of noise

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz very organised nice solution!

But the question is what are you putting in the rack?

I've had 1Us, they're a pain in the butt. Everything is proprietary dell crap, there's only one PCIe port, you can't just grab a random ATX PSU off aliexpress.

Even if I had a rack, I'd just do the same build as a 4U and put that in the rack, and then for my needs 36 cores, 256G of ram, 6T of SSD and 6x 12T of rust is everything I need. So what? A rack for 1 server?

@cjd @xaetacore Its called 2u, my dell r720xd is a great example of a server that was only 300-400$ with 256gb of ram 20 cpu cores and has 12 disk shelfs.

How much ram? Because ram really kind of decides how many VMs you can comfortable run...

@cjd @xaetacore I just said 256 gb

Ok, I thought you meant disk. So I spent about 400 on the same thing (minus SSDs and disks), but my setup has no proprietary interfaces at all. The only downside is that I had to build it.

@cjd @xaetacore You mean you have no idrac lol.

Yeah, and I had that on the dell and it did nothing for me.

But I don't just mean that, I mean Dell power supply, Dell SAS backplane, Dell weirdo PCIe port that only can fit Dell ethernet card...

I buy a motherboard from China I get 4 PCIe 16x which will fit anything, 10 SATA ports, any PSU I want, and the whole thing costs 150€...

@cjd @dcc @xaetacore Poast hardware is all on ASRockRack* -- off the shelf boards with server support -- in 1Us with ikvm. Web server is running Genoa EPYC and the database server is running I think Milan EPYC. Might be Rome.

Speaking of ASRock, the fact that they did an EPYC in ITX form factor is the goofiest thing ever, and I kind of want one.

@dcc@annihilation.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz Idrac and Ilo is nice if your gear is in a DC or you are not able to access it, at home its nice if you are at the office and ur shit eats shit but if you had to pick between more performance or idrac and you homelab, then ditch idrac

@graf@poa.st @cjd@pkteerium.xyz @dcc@annihilation.social Ours is on a cheeky supermicro board, pic earlier our HV, Trying to squeeze every bit of capacity out it but soon ill upgrade my desktop to a new CPU so that means i got a spare board for a new HV tho it will not run critical shit due to no ECC

Cant wait ​​

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz Good things often come in small packages tho i prefer E-ATX

iDRAC did absolutely nothing for me when I had it on the dells. My machines tend to run for years without problems (knock on wood) so for me it was a solution in search of a problem...

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz Disaster recovery tools like idrac are there for when your OS fails or you have hardware issues, it can detect issues in your hardware like RAM and inform you timly about it, it has great value because its there for that one time your shit breaks

For companies having the ability to remote into their bare metal server instead of sending a Engineer to a DC at 3AM is a life saver because it changes a 4Hour downtime ordeal(In case of no HA) to a trivial matter of checking idrac and changing some configs

Yeah, also I don't colo anything. The big machine is at home and the small high availability stuff is OVH rentals.

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz I home host my shit, gluetun anything sensitive