WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.759 So, with all the posting I've done on social media and YouTube, things like 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:09.519 our Norcco cabinet here and our 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:13.519 surveillance server and our other servers and all that stuff, people have 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:18.880 beenounding me. When are you actually going to do a tour of the server room 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:21.920 and it's finally here. I've been putting it off and putting it off and putting it 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:26.800 off because I keep making little changes and upgrades and tweaks, but it's at the 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:31.439 point now where everything is pretty much up and running. So today I'm going 00:00:29.439 --> 00:00:37.120 to be putting some finishing touches on it in terms of cable management and well 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:42.079 actually closing up the side of the cabinet here and giving you guys a tour 00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:54.079 of all the equipment that we've got in the Lionus Media Group server closet. 00:00:54.079 --> 00:01:00.719 The Logitech G303 features a lightweight design, an advanced optical sensor with 00:00:58.239 --> 00:01:04.640 Delta 0ero technology, and RGB lighting to match your setup. Check out the link 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:08.880 in the video description to learn more. So, I want to start by responding to one 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:12.240 of the criticisms people had of our server room when I first started posting 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:17.759 pictures on social media, and that was that we didn't have any backup power. As 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:23.600 the savvy among you will know, it's extraordinarily important really for any 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:27.439 machine, but especially for a server to 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:29.280 not lose power unexpectedly. So, a UPS, 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:34.799 and in fact, we actually do have a number of them, four total in the 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:36.320 cabinet here. A UPS not only acts as a 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:40.640 battery backup in the event that there's a sudden power loss to the building, it 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:44.960 also acts to smooth out the incoming power, which is good for the well, the 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:49.439 life expectancy of any of the hardware that is hooked up to it. So, there is 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:54.159 one issue, though. The ones we've got here uh were refurb units that were 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:58.640 sponsored by General Electric. And it turned out that we had some issues with 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:03.040 the batteries in some of them. The good news though, I've got my three 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:06.040 replacements right here ready to install. 00:02:08.959 --> 00:02:16.480 So, while I'm pulling these out, I guess I'll give a bit of an explanation for 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:18.560 how the the room came to be. Number one, 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:25.360 originally there were actually supposed to be uh two cabinets in here, one full 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:30.400 height and one half height right next to it. So I thought I could just kind of 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:35.519 set and forget the back of it and then not worry too much. Well, I have needed 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:42.720 access to the back of this server cabinet pretty much every other day. 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:45.120 This is my brilliant system right now 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:48.560 for uh controlling any of these computers. I got my monitor down there. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:53.120 I got my keyboard mouse here. So, so this is ridiculous. So, I learned a 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:59.599 couple of things. Number one is that the 24U cabinet that I have out there is 00:02:56.480 --> 00:03:03.599 never coming in here. And number two, I 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:05.280 need a better system for 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:10.480 using a monitor, keyboard, and mouse on these servers. So, this is a trendet 00:03:08.239 --> 00:03:14.640 something or other KVM. And this was sent to us by racksolutions.com 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:18.400 to hold a keyboard and mouse and wall mount them and tuck them away. So, I'll 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:24.480 show you guys that in a minute. The one thing that did thankfully work out was 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:30.159 the cooling solution for the room. I had originally planned to not hook it up to 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:36.319 the air conditioning. This passive air intake and that ducted fan up there 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:44.120 actually replaces the air in this room about once per minute and it has turned 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:44.120 out to be just fine, thankfully. 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:51.440 So, with the construction going on while we were moving in, as you can imagine, 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:56.480 dust in this room has been a freaking nightmare. I have taken every single one 00:03:53.599 --> 00:04:00.879 of these servers out three times since first installing them and dusted them. 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:06.480 And I'm probably going to have to do it once more. In the future, I'm going to 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:09.120 put some kind of a of a filter on this 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:14.480 and along the bottom of the door. But in the meantime, now it's not nearly as bad 00:04:12.239 --> 00:04:18.639 now that the uh construction is no longer going on in the warehouse outside 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:21.639 and now that we've sealed the concrete floor. 00:04:22.880 --> 00:04:29.199 So, with the new UPS's installed, in order to minimize downtime for those 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:34.560 guys in there while I switch all the systems over to it, I'm going to go 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:37.360 ahead and I'm going to get my KVM set up 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:42.880 first. Before I mount this to the wall, this is really cool. It's got a little 00:04:40.479 --> 00:04:45.680 magnetic closing thing on the top. It goes onto the wall. A little something 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:53.759 like that. Comes with some mounting hardware, keyboard, mouse, and uh yeah, 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:56.720 all that's left is to make sure it fits. 00:04:53.759 --> 00:05:01.680 Yes, we're good. Maybe I have to use deep scan mode. There should be a stud 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:07.600 next to this. I need to know where it is. Okay, well, fine. I'm just going to 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:10.080 go with drywall screws because this is 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:15.039 already too much work. So, that is going to be pretty tight, my 00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:20.280 friends. Pretty tight indeed. 00:05:17.280 --> 00:05:20.280 All right. 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:30.080 Don't tell me I hit a stud. Awesome. 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:36.800 What the hell? 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:39.039 Really? What are the odds? I went to 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:43.759 mount the this thing with all drywall screws 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:49.320 and I hit wood all four times. So, I don't need them at all. So, I'm just 00:05:45.280 --> 00:05:49.320 putting the wood screws right in. 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:59.759 All right. Now, let's double check the door. 00:05:56.080 --> 00:06:01.840 Oh, so tight. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:06.800 Awesome. My good buddy Taran here asked me, 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:13.120 "However shall you keep the keyboard in place when you close the door? Surely 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:18.720 that will happen." To which I replied, "They thought of 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:23.360 that. This, my friends, is a strip of industrial strength Velcro." You're not 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:28.520 going to velcro the mouse down, are you? No, I'm not going to Velcro the mouse 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:28.520 down. 00:06:31.919 --> 00:06:40.280 So cool. All right, so now 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:40.280 Oh crap. 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:46.639 Let's try that again. 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:49.280 Ah, there we go. Look at that. There's 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:55.600 little cable management holes. I can take my mouse wire and keep it in place 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:59.039 with this. Not too shabby. 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:00.880 Okay. So, next step then, monitor mount. 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:05.599 Okay. Well, this old Samsung seems to work, so I guess we'll uh we'll go with 00:07:03.599 --> 00:07:12.080 this puppy. Okay. So, the first thing we need to do is take it oop off the uh 00:07:09.520 --> 00:07:20.120 included stand. We could also look at the instructions. Put the thing on the 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:20.120 thing for like this. 00:07:20.960 --> 00:07:27.280 All right. Now, we got to wall mount this puppy. Okay. I guess right about 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:31.199 there. Linus media group. We put the ball in and eyeball it in. All right, 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:38.319 let's see if we manage to stay in the drywall this time. What the heck? 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:41.440 Uh, you tripped the breaker. 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:43.360 Oh, yeah. 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:50.000 Maybe this is like standard practice. Maybe it's plywood behind this whole 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:51.919 thing and I'm just not aware of that. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:58.879 Okay, I think it's just plywood back there. That's cool. So now this baby 00:07:55.840 --> 00:08:01.120 goes on there. For the final step, you 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:06.800 put the monitor on. Just kidding, guys. 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:14.240 Oh, wait. Oh, I I did do it upside down. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:16.000 Wait, what? Damn it. Did you? Yes. It's 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:21.440 amazing they even let me have power tools. I even thought to myself when I 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:24.479 was test fitting it, wow, it's really weird that they have you put the hooks 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:27.120 on the bottom and then put the thumb screw in on the top. It seems like it'd 00:08:25.919 --> 00:08:30.280 be a lot easier if you went the other way around. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:44.720 All right, so the next step is to figure out how and where to mount our KVM. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:48.320 Okay, so that's interesting. The issue is that these are not going to 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:54.720 make it around to the backs of these computers 00:08:49.839 --> 00:08:57.040 unless I take this side cover off on the 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:02.800 other side, which which is an option. I think I think I'm going to do that. Um, 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:09.519 okay. Hold on. There's a zip tie on there. Okay. We're good. So, this is 00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:15.519 just going to come off and go with the other one that I also have not ever put 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:18.720 on yet. Oh, yeah. Just hold this here. 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:21.760 You know what? Let's plug into the main 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:25.360 storage server. 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:28.640 Ha, it works. So, now all that's left is 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:30.399 to finalize the position for this puppy. 00:09:28.640 --> 00:09:33.279 These This is supposed to go in the rack, but I didn't want to take up any 00:09:31.760 --> 00:09:36.720 rack space with it because, as you can see, it's fairly limited at this point. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:43.279 So, I was thinking, I'll just put them on this way, but the holes pretty much 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:47.120 don't line up at all. I can only do one at a time. So, we're going to try that. 00:09:45.839 --> 00:09:52.880 We're going to hope for the best. This thing isn't too heavy. We'll see how it 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:56.440 goes. Is your KVM Earthquake safe? 00:09:52.880 --> 00:09:56.440 Mine's not. 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:03.120 Wish I'd gotten a drill. Get on my level. 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:07.120 That looks uncomfortable, doesn't it? What does? Getting on my level. Just 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:10.560 Just Oh, thank goodness. Okay. Okay, 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:15.600 realistically, that's not going anywhere. So, now I'm going to run 00:10:13.760 --> 00:10:18.480 around and plug all this stuff in. And then I'm going to let everyone know that 00:10:16.959 --> 00:10:25.360 the uh servers are going to be down for a little bit. So, uh hang tight. 00:10:23.040 --> 00:10:28.640 Right about here. 00:10:26.959 --> 00:10:32.519 Yeah. Okay. So, we can actually check all of them. Okay. 00:10:32.560 --> 00:10:39.120 Cool. All right. So, the KVM solution totally 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:42.160 works. All that's left now is to shut everything down, do some cable 00:10:40.640 --> 00:10:48.720 management, and then I'll give you guys a tour of exactly what everything in the 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:49.920 rack is. Uh, hey, can you guys save your 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:54.279 work? We're going to have a network outage for about 20 minutes. 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:00.560 Everyone likes it when I work on the server room. All right, let's go. Shut 00:10:58.640 --> 00:11:04.959 down. So, I'm going to get a call from the 00:11:01.839 --> 00:11:07.519 security company telling us that our uh 00:11:04.959 --> 00:11:11.600 security system is shut down. Wow, it is astonishing how much quieter it is in 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:19.600 here with uh none of these systems running. So, let's get the setup of doom 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:22.800 the crap out of here. Oh, so 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:25.680 frustrating. So, I moved a bunch of uh 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:30.880 these power squids in here and now I need them out. And we just got to do a 00:11:28.160 --> 00:11:36.720 little bit of cable management back here and then we're actually in pretty good 00:11:32.640 --> 00:11:39.200 shape. What is this? Perhaps it is 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:45.519 important. Well, can you unplug it? Well, are you sure? Yeah. 00:11:42.160 --> 00:11:49.920 Okay. So, that goes there. This goes 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:51.680 here. Let me Oh. Oh, son of a cable 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:59.680 management. Do you want it done nicely or do you want it done fast? Oh, shoot. 00:11:54.399 --> 00:12:01.519 No, don't turn on. Not now. Okay. Um Oh, 00:11:59.680 --> 00:12:09.360 balls. Okay, things are turning on randomly now. So, that is going to go 00:12:05.680 --> 00:12:12.000 right there. Uh, yes, it's okay. I am 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:21.440 just uh I'm just plugging it back in now. Oh, shut up. I need a longer cord. 00:12:16.959 --> 00:12:24.079 All right, let's power on all the UPS's. 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:29.279 One, two. Okay. 00:12:26.160 --> 00:12:33.440 Okay, that is too long for where it's 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:36.160 running to. What the crap? 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.839 Is this There we go. 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:44.880 Okay. So, I think we're going to call the front good enough. She does close 00:12:42.959 --> 00:12:49.519 except for this cable that I have running out of the room to uh the 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:51.040 Wancho. Whoa. What are you? Oh, yeah. 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:56.320 That's another That's another one that runs out of the room. 00:12:53.839 --> 00:13:03.279 Yeah. So, we'll fire Fraser back up next. I guess the vault is ready to come 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.279 back up. 00:13:06.880 --> 00:13:13.200 The surveillance system is back up. So, now that we've got everything pretty 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:17.040 much good to go, I do need a better solution for some of these Ethernet 00:13:14.560 --> 00:13:19.839 cables running out the front door, but we're calling it good enough for now. 00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:23.600 I'll walk you guys through everything that's in here. So, this is our MRV. 00:13:21.920 --> 00:13:26.320 This is provided by our internet service provider. They figured it costs 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:29.320 somewhere in the neighborhood of $40,000. 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:37.040 Fortunately, we don't have to buy that. We just lease it. These are the 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:38.800 terminations for all of our Cat 6A 00:13:37.040 --> 00:13:43.600 wiring throughout the entire building. Yes, we are full Cat 6A, even where it 00:13:41.760 --> 00:13:49.600 doesn't make any sense thanks to a small miscommunication between my wife and the 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:51.760 builders. This is our Cisco router, 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:56.480 which we will actually be replacing because this puppy is a little bit 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:00.320 difficult for us to configure since none of us are Cisco certified and you got to 00:13:58.079 --> 00:14:05.519 do it all via command line and because it's a little bit older and underpowered 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:06.959 for the gigabit, that's 1,00 up, 1,00 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:11.920 down connection that we have in here. So, we'll be replacing this with a 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:14.160 PFSense box fairly shortly. This is our 00:14:11.920 --> 00:14:19.760 48 port gigabit switch with a couple of 10 gigabit SFP plus ports over here. 00:14:16.959 --> 00:14:24.720 This is our 10 GB switch. This is the the heart of well most of the servers 00:14:22.160 --> 00:14:30.320 and the editing den where everyone has a 10 gig Ethernet connection. 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:35.760 This right here is the surveillance server which you've seen before. It's 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:38.720 chalk full of WD purple drives, ASUS WS 00:14:35.760 --> 00:14:43.519 board, all that kind of reliable awesome stuff. This is our first UPS. So, this 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:52.639 handles most of the networking gear. And then this is our 24 SSD server. It has 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:55.680 24 960 gig Kingston SSDs in here in RAID 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.240 50. So, this is a RAID 5. This is a RAID 00:14:55.680 --> 00:15:03.440 5. This is a RAID 5. And they are all striped together from within Windows. 00:15:00.560 --> 00:15:06.800 This does most of our file server duties for any of the projects that we're 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:11.680 working on. It is equipped with an ASRock motherboard. It's an X99 board, 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:15.760 but we threw a Zeon and ECC memory in there anyway because it's a workstation 00:15:13.839 --> 00:15:19.920 board that does support those particular parts. Um, it's got a redundant power 00:15:18.560 --> 00:15:24.800 supply in it now. That was something that I didn't get around to till quite a 00:15:22.079 --> 00:15:29.360 bit later. And it's got dual 10 Gbit Ethernet on board. So, this is one that 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:33.440 actually has a trunked connection. So, it's capable of 20 Gbit per second with 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:38.160 multiple people hitting it at the same time. This right here is a Newton 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:43.680 server. This is our approx. I think it's about 118 terabytes or something like 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:47.839 that. This is the vault, the archival server. Whenever we're done working on 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:52.399 something, it goes off of Wanic and onto the vault. This one only has a single 10 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:57.680 GB connection because frankly, we don't need to access it that often. And this 00:15:55.600 --> 00:16:02.480 this is the really fun machine. I'm going to have a full video on the way 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:07.199 that this server has completely changed our video editing workflow in the near 00:16:04.880 --> 00:16:14.320 future here. But this is Fraser server. It has dual 18 core zeons, 128 gigs of 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:16.240 RAM, two Titan blacks, and uh oh yeah, 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:21.600 it's actually I threw a RAID card and about a 20 TB RAID array in there now as 00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:26.079 well. So what happens here is whenever we ingest footage, it crunches it and 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:30.320 makes it easier to work on. Then when we're done our videos, this crunches 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:36.320 them to the finished formats that we upload to the various video sites that 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:38.240 we upload to. And uh this is a very cool 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:44.240 little piece of machinery and it's the only one that actually extends outside 00:16:40.959 --> 00:16:46.639 the room. So this is the workstation 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:53.279 that's actually hooked up through a Thunderbolt and USB 3 to that server in 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:58.320 the room. And what we do here is we take all of our media. So you can see we've 00:16:55.600 --> 00:17:02.639 got this fancy pants Thunderbolt card reader. We've got an active StarTech 00:17:00.560 --> 00:17:05.839 USB3 cable leading to this Thermaltch dual drive dock. And I'm actually going 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:10.799 to pick up another one of those so that we can have quite a few SSD docs. 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