Fixing the DISASTER - Server Room Vlog Pt. 1
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,565 words · ~7 min read
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so the server room behind me has gotten a lot of upgrades since the last time I
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showed it off it got a gigantic ups that
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conditions power and access a battery backup and more recently it got an
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upgrade to our solid state editing Nas going from normal SATA ssds to NVMe ssds
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but what hasn't been upgraded is the
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organization this place is a
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disaster and we need to make some space for pet B project a clustered storage
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server that we're working on with Seagate and 45 dries so we've teamed up
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with cableorganizer.com ubiquity
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networks bonded logic Trend net and
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protocase to give this place a complete
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makeover so come along for the ride I mean look at this this is awful
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okay so the plan is as follows clean up of the room clean up of
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the servers cable management of the room
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some reconfiguration and network switch
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movement upgrading our Wi-Fi here to our
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new ubiquity gear making room for the
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petabyte storage cluster by consolidating some of the roles of some
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of our servers um adding acoustic dampening to
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the room so that it won't be so loud out here in the studio and adding dust
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filtration to the room so we won't end up with the same situation we were in
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before with everything being clogged up
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with dust uh you might you guys might
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remember Johnny from previous episodes of lus tech tip such as installing a UPS
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I lost the paper like planogram thing
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for our patch panel um so you're on figuring out what
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everything is going to right y exactly okay cool
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um so oh wow are you rolling roll roll roll
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are you rolling okay so that is a perfect example of what can happen when
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you cable manage your server room like this I just accidentally stepped on one
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of our power squids and I knocked out
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oh no did I knock out new wanic
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server oh my goodness okay um well at any rate sorry
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Johnny I was just going to say so all the like bonds that we set up in the
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switches I don't think a single one of the storage servers other than new wanic
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which I just put in still has any of that stuff still plugged in this is one
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of the inest stations for footage and
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we're going to be moving this actually to um to a tower out here instead cuz
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what we discovered was as much as it's nice to have like your GTX 1070 6950x
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extreme Edition systems like behind locking key we discovered that there are
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just issues with usb3 signaling that
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prevent all these high-speed peripherals from working properly with long cables
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that go into the rooms do the aors need to be on the
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internet not anymore not anymore Bo
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link State change to down well while we wait for uh the Vault
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to sync file systems and all that we can move pretty much everything that's not
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bolted down out of here all right okay
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you know it's it's amazing how my server room could end up in this condition
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right uh oh balls uh this is my current
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solution for a pdu or power distribution
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unit so I have these um like Dollar
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Store Power Bars um we have to shut this
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thing down uh hey Dennis are you still
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copying files on the in just one
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yeah uh yeah sorry I have to shut it down we uh we need to tear apart the
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room there okay so I had all matching drives in it Cate 6 terb ones but we
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completely ran out of capacity nowhere to put anything and I had to expand it
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somehow so
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I oh to those of you asking what happened to the 10 TB drives that were
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in the desk oh suddenly there are 6 tab
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drives yeah these are not officially supported
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by unraid yet so I can't boot this system unless I pop these drives wait
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for it to boot up and then hot swap them back in pretty much everything is off
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now yeah it's so quiet now what I've
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never done this before
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uh the lifeblood of my company I'm just
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like pulling it apart no big deal right no big deal okay
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the like janky lifeblood of my
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company it's like we're media production company literally nothing can happen
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without this room operating at 100% or
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at least the like 60% that it
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does oh okay okay this feels so wrong
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right now the power bar is connected to the
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power squid the power Squid's connected to the
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other power squid actually no this power Squid goes
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straight into uh the back of the UPS
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okay so that's not that's not that bad two layers of uh ow oh ow that
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hurt no it's fine I'm fine just hit
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myself in the face I got to tell you I have actually
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lied to the staff about outages before
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yeah where they've been like oh what happened and I I was like oh yeah it was
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like h a crash but like I stepped on a
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power cord yeah oh my goodness I just pulled this
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power supply out was that not
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locked there we go
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jeez that's on one of the new servers too what's my excuse for that the way
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these are cable managed is like horrible stuck in there yeah it makes it very
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difficult to get at anything I have a plan for these so once
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everything's out of here we're going to like drill a hole on the top of the uh
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in the top of the cabinet what is this
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oh man yeah there's a lot of unnecessary cables going out through the wall here
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maybe this is so funny look at this here's like my pathetic attempt at cable
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managing back when there were only five
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going there and then I just like all these are not cable manage cuz
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they went in after the fact woo okay wow that makes a big
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difference
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power
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cables you know what's funny too is we just bought a bunch more power squids
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and Power Bars cuz we were out of them and I'm returning like seven to the
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population I think this is about as torn down as it gets until it's time to start
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pulling out servers beautiful yeah really not my favorite rails yeah got it
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oh my goodness it's so dusty ew so while
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I'm dusting out all the server rooms server rooms server rooms Johnny's
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working on is getting all of the switches taken out of the rack because
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every single one of them needs to move
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for us to do our new cable management
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schema ah this is our oldest
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switch I've never actually blown it out
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before this one's kind of a funny config the uh guy from datac
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cat recommended like a modern core i7 and like all this good stuff and I'm
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like could I just put some old Hardware that I have lying around he's like yeah
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I guess so so got like a p80 motherboard
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with like an 860 or an 875k or something
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like that and we do get like random restarts from time to
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time so that's another reason to move this over to a virtual machine
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oh Smokin there we go okay go ahead so
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these are both fully solid state new servers yeah you got it
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yep okay yep that's you know just the
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entire archived history of everything LMG has ever
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made I got to be careful with these ssds
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hey P I'll show you something that hasn't happened since we moved in
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here oh the door still won't close damn
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it yeah the door closed on the server
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cabinet we've partnered with Intel and telesign to talk about two Factor
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Authentication it's a pretty important topic and if you
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care about online security you should definitely have it activated wherever
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possible if you don't know what two-factor authentication is it's an
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additional layer of security that you can add to your account beyond your
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password in fact we have a full video about it that you can check out here
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enabling it minimizes the chances of having someone gain access to your
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account even if they key log your
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password for example tons of websites have the feature but it's up to you to
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enable it so participate in Intel's turn on 2fa campaign today all you have to do
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is turn on two Factor authentication for your primary email address and one other
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account after you've done that head to Twitter and use # turn on toofa for a
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free pizzas every week and Intel will also be giving away a Lenovo Yoga 910 as
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the grand
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prize
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awesome um we put this by the door what
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could go wrong