so we have learned a lot much of it by trial and error over the last couple of
years about the better management of the Computing resources we have on hand
we've explored different video encoding
software Solutions we've looked at CPU encoding versus GPU encoding AMD versus
NVIDIA for GPU encoding and we even lost
almost all of our data in this video
here when wanx server lost a raid card
so we are finally ready to take our
edication by fire on the road and the
first stop is going to be our buddies at nerd Fusion down in Seattle where we
will be dropping off this storinator
server so let's get going then shall
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description so we're here now this
actually isn't the first trip that's been made on account of this project
Matt seus zagurski from nerd Fusion
actually made his way up to the Frozen North about a month ago to do a tag team
build of the final config a pair of Intel Zeon E5 2697 V3 14 core processors
so that's 20 8 Haswell cores
total 128 gigs of ddr4 ECC quad Channel
memory a super micro X10 Dr T dual
socket motherboard with 10 GB networking on board and I'll explain why that's
important a little bit further on and
100 boy this thing is heavy 100
terabytes worth of Seagate Enterprise storage with available expansion base
for up to a few hundred terabytes more with new 10 TB helium drives thanks to
this awesome storinator that our friends over at 45 drives whipped up for us can
you guys actually help me with this thanks Matt so this is actually a
customized version of their new storinator so it's got an extended ATX
compartment instead of ATX thanks for holding that for me champ as well as
their new switch to 92 mm fans in the
front to make room for this LCD panel that lets you more easily diagnose
failed drives the last big change is the fact that the front panel can be
entirely toolless well it's okay toolless but screwdriver lless if you
don't screw that in and all the drives can be installed and removed without any
of that fancy bar holding down you know
top plates thing it's all just like a friction mount now uh we should get this
thing inside we should but if you guys find yourselves asking yourselves well
what would a bunch of twitch streamers need with some kind of like uber Mega
server you're probably not the only ones
so I'm going to use this opportunity where we're hand delivering the server
to walk through all of the different functions that this server is going to
be performing here at the nerd Fusion headquarters thanks to the magic of
unraid yes of course unrated is making another appearance in Linus's server
video surprise surprise so first and
foremost is the storage of archived
twitch streams as some of you probably know twitch only allows even Partners to
store their streams for about 60 days on
the service before it is deleted permanently so this at 100 terabytes
will be by far the largest storage server that they have in the building
which shouldn't be that surprising giving the only other one that they have
is there on that shelf and is awful and
will allow them to store about one year
of archived footage for easy access to
everyone who works here I got to figure out how to get out of
here yep that was easy gymnast so use
case number two is really cool and far beyond what you'd be able to do with a
typical Standalone NZ unit like we saw sitting in the closet they're going to
fire up a Windows VM on the unraid server then they're going to load an
application called wowza that is going to enable them to do a couple of
different things first of all they will be able to save a 12 megabit full 1080p
version of everything that they stream and because that's not really optimal
for twitch they will be able to live transcode that incoming stream onto the
server to 4 megabit 900p which is ideal
for twitch this has a couple of effects number one is it gives them better
quality footage to work with for vods or if they want to bring up a past
broadcast for whatever reason during a live broadcast and number two is with a
little more magic within wowza it would actually enable them to have an off
platform an off twitch higher bit rate stream available for some of their
biggest supporters that's something that is not happening yet but could be
possible with this setup use case number two and this is actually really cool
involves a second VM this time Linux running a program called fog it's a free
open-source cloning utility and the point of it is that we're actually
standing in one of their guest streaming rooms so whether it's a remote employee
who's in town for a while or someone coming in to do a a collab stream from
the office here the point of it is to be able to take these guest streaming PCS
and quickly and easily back them up or restore them to a previous state so that
you know Alex's passwords or applications or whatever else are wiped
off this computer and it's ready to rock for the next person who needs to use it
a second Linux VM is going to be set up as a dedicated Minecraft server just for
the guys here within the office now they already have one but it's hosted at ovh
up in Canada which is a couple of problems number one is there's distance
which means things can go wrong with the link between here and there number two
is that it costs money if they host it out of here for people playing locally
then it doesn't cost any extra money other than this server that we're giving
them anyway and number three is that having it here on site in a VM means
that they can just allocate more CPU and GPU resource to it as as needed because
as some of you will know Minecraft servers can be RAM and to a lesser
extent CPU Hogs and let's face it if
your Minecraft server isn't performing properly you could be having a worse
gaming experience than if you were trying to game without
Doritos these aren't Doritos these are
Tostitos they're stale so a third VM and we didn't really
have anything to illustrate this because it'll be a year before they actually
need one of these uh because that server is so huge so a
third VM is going to be responsible for taking the archived footage off of the
hot storage and putting it into Cold Storage so they're actually going to be
picking up an autoloading tape drive
which will basically uh once footage reaches a certain age or the server
reaches a certain amount of fullness it'll take any of the oldest footage
dump it onto tape label it move it out
of the way and insert a new tape into the tape drop
Drive oh cool okay so the last thing
they're going to be doing is replacing their current security system with like
a 15 camera setup this will actually be a second Windows VM we're up to a total
of five VMS that is going to enable them to do a couple of things so number one
is running I think they were going to use something like ey spy or similar so
they're going to be able to have all those cameras keeping an eye on the employees who are you know fooling
around instead of working that's the idea right Matt yeah
yep got it yep and second of all they've
actually talked about experimenting at least maybe to try it once with having a
fullon live stream of everything that's going on in the office a second use
aside from the whole video encoding thing for the CPU power that our little
server in the closet there brings to the table so I hope you guys enjoyed this
little look at all the things our fancy little server is going to do and I guess
uh sort of indirectly what actually goes into running a a Twitch streaming
company something that I bet a lot of you did not even realize existed so let
me know in the comments below if there are any other creators that you think
would have use for even if it's just storage a server system like this and if
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