so the server room behind me has gotten a lot of upgrades since the last time I
showed it off it got a gigantic ups that
conditions power and access a battery backup and more recently it got an
upgrade to our solid state editing Nas going from normal SATA ssds to NVMe ssds
but what hasn't been upgraded is the
organization this place is a
disaster and we need to make some space for pet B project a clustered storage
server that we're working on with Seagate and 45 dries so we've teamed up
with cableorganizer.com ubiquity
networks bonded logic Trend net and
protocase to give this place a complete
makeover so come along for the ride I mean look at this this is awful
okay so the plan is as follows clean up of the room clean up of
the servers cable management of the room
some reconfiguration and network switch
movement upgrading our Wi-Fi here to our
new ubiquity gear making room for the
petabyte storage cluster by consolidating some of the roles of some
of our servers um adding acoustic dampening to
the room so that it won't be so loud out here in the studio and adding dust
filtration to the room so we won't end up with the same situation we were in
before with everything being clogged up
with dust uh you might you guys might
remember Johnny from previous episodes of lus tech tip such as installing a UPS
I lost the paper like planogram thing
for our patch panel um so you're on figuring out what
everything is going to right y exactly okay cool
um so oh wow are you rolling roll roll roll
are you rolling okay so that is a perfect example of what can happen when
you cable manage your server room like this I just accidentally stepped on one
of our power squids and I knocked out
oh no did I knock out new wanic
server oh my goodness okay um well at any rate sorry
Johnny I was just going to say so all the like bonds that we set up in the
switches I don't think a single one of the storage servers other than new wanic
which I just put in still has any of that stuff still plugged in this is one
of the inest stations for footage and
we're going to be moving this actually to um to a tower out here instead cuz
what we discovered was as much as it's nice to have like your GTX 1070 6950x
extreme Edition systems like behind locking key we discovered that there are
just issues with usb3 signaling that
prevent all these high-speed peripherals from working properly with long cables
that go into the rooms do the aors need to be on the
internet not anymore not anymore Bo
link State change to down well while we wait for uh the Vault
to sync file systems and all that we can move pretty much everything that's not
bolted down out of here all right okay
you know it's it's amazing how my server room could end up in this condition
right uh oh balls uh this is my current
solution for a pdu or power distribution
unit so I have these um like Dollar
Store Power Bars um we have to shut this
thing down uh hey Dennis are you still
copying files on the in just one
yeah uh yeah sorry I have to shut it down we uh we need to tear apart the
room there okay so I had all matching drives in it Cate 6 terb ones but we
completely ran out of capacity nowhere to put anything and I had to expand it
somehow so
I oh to those of you asking what happened to the 10 TB drives that were
in the desk oh suddenly there are 6 tab
drives yeah these are not officially supported
by unraid yet so I can't boot this system unless I pop these drives wait
for it to boot up and then hot swap them back in pretty much everything is off
now yeah it's so quiet now what I've
never done this before
uh the lifeblood of my company I'm just
like pulling it apart no big deal right no big deal okay
the like janky lifeblood of my
company it's like we're media production company literally nothing can happen
without this room operating at 100% or
at least the like 60% that it
does oh okay okay this feels so wrong
right now the power bar is connected to the
power squid the power Squid's connected to the
other power squid actually no this power Squid goes
straight into uh the back of the UPS
okay so that's not that's not that bad two layers of uh ow oh ow that
hurt no it's fine I'm fine just hit
myself in the face I got to tell you I have actually
lied to the staff about outages before
yeah where they've been like oh what happened and I I was like oh yeah it was
like h a crash but like I stepped on a
power cord yeah oh my goodness I just pulled this
power supply out was that not
locked there we go
jeez that's on one of the new servers too what's my excuse for that the way
these are cable managed is like horrible stuck in there yeah it makes it very
difficult to get at anything I have a plan for these so once
everything's out of here we're going to like drill a hole on the top of the uh
in the top of the cabinet what is this
oh man yeah there's a lot of unnecessary cables going out through the wall here
maybe this is so funny look at this here's like my pathetic attempt at cable
managing back when there were only five
going there and then I just like all these are not cable manage cuz
they went in after the fact woo okay wow that makes a big
difference
power
cables you know what's funny too is we just bought a bunch more power squids
and Power Bars cuz we were out of them and I'm returning like seven to the
population I think this is about as torn down as it gets until it's time to start
pulling out servers beautiful yeah really not my favorite rails yeah got it
oh my goodness it's so dusty ew so while
I'm dusting out all the server rooms server rooms server rooms Johnny's
working on is getting all of the switches taken out of the rack because
every single one of them needs to move
for us to do our new cable management
schema ah this is our oldest
switch I've never actually blown it out
before this one's kind of a funny config the uh guy from datac
cat recommended like a modern core i7 and like all this good stuff and I'm
like could I just put some old Hardware that I have lying around he's like yeah
I guess so so got like a p80 motherboard
with like an 860 or an 875k or something
like that and we do get like random restarts from time to
time so that's another reason to move this over to a virtual machine
oh Smokin there we go okay go ahead so
these are both fully solid state new servers yeah you got it
yep okay yep that's you know just the
entire archived history of everything LMG has ever
made I got to be careful with these ssds
hey P I'll show you something that hasn't happened since we moved in
here oh the door still won't close damn
it yeah the door closed on the server
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could go wrong