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Old Man Henderson. Makes me wish I had been able to do more D&D sessions with my 4e Minotaur Rogue :)

8/22/2025 ; Apparently 1d4chan.org finally went offline. Old Man Henderson on archive.org

Rebuilding the Lab

Since last summer I have been steadily working on rebuilding my lab while attempting some semblance of power efficiency.
While I would have loved to have built the storage server NAS Brian Moses did it's definitely out of my budget.

So what am I cobbling together instead?
Primary Storage Node - Media files, etc
Rackable Systems 3U server
- 12 how-swap bay 3U Short Depth Chassis
- 450W Rackables Power Supply
- Intel S5000PSL Motherboard
- 1x Intel Xeon L5310 1.6GHz Quad-Core
- 8x 1G DDR2-ECC FB-DIMMS
- LSI 8-port SAS 6 PCIE Controller
- 4x 2TB Hitachi 7200RPM SATA Drives
- 1x 4GB SATA Flash disk
- 1x 40GB 2.5" 5400RPM Sata Hard drive
Secondary Storage Node - Virtual Machine Storage
Rackable Systems 2U Server
- 4 hot-swap bay 2U Short Depth Chassis
- 450W Rackables Power Supply
- Intel S5000PSL Motherboard
- 1x Intel Xeon L5310 1.6GHz Quad-Core
- 8x 1G DDR2-ECC FB-DIMMS
- Intel Dual-port PCI-E NIC
- 4x 1TB Western Digital RE2 drives
- 1x 4GB SATA Flash disk
- 1x 40GB 2.5" 5400RPM Sata Hard drive
Virtual Machine Host
HP Proliant DL585 G2 (pdf)
- 4x Dual-Core AMD Operon 8220s
- 64GB DDR2 ECC RAM
- 2x Intel Dual-port gigabit PCI-X NICs
- Random 2GB Flash drive
- Redundant power Supplies
Networking
HP Procurve 2824

Software
Both storage nodes are currently running CentOS 7 combined with ZFS on linux. The Virtual host is running VMWare ESXi 5.5

So far other than swearing at firewalld, finding a bug and some update teething, things have not gone too bad so far. This is still a bit of a work in progress (rebuilding the VM storage node for more space, etc), and I figured for once I might post online how I am building things out, to either help others or serve as a warning to the rest of the internet