A little blog space here to document this. I’ll be taking the attic, a bedroom, and another room, basically apart, reorganizing them, getting a rack of some sort, and running networking for a private cloud setup to run in the attic of my parents house.
This setup will contain:
1X Mac Pro 1,1 (networking firewall, monitor, etc, gateway to gigabit)
1X Dell R620 ( Main machine, vm’s and compute, 2x 10C20T, 256gb ram)
1X Dell R510 ( NAS / Update server, will run nextcloud, 2x 6c12t 64gb ram)
2 or 3 desktops ranging from mini dtx to SSI EEB
A switch
1x Dell PS4000E San
And some backup batteries of some sort
Eventually
For right now I just have the servers. I’m currently shopping for a 24-30U server rack to put all this in. Even new, as I want the rack to have top ventilation.
The rack will be placed in the attic right next to a window. I would like to take the window in that space out and replace it and mount an AC unit in the wall there permanently, or at least mountstuff so it can be left there and not leak, and then be able to dump cold air straight into the case.
In duo with this, I’ll be basically cleaning up my parents house. Their hoarders, so it’ll be a time. But I’ve also been given free reign to do what I want with the space.
Pictures will have shit everywhere. Will post as I clean up, so be aware if I seem excited it’s because I am cleaning up where I grew up.
This whole process will be somewhat nerve wracking as well, so be aware if I’m asking for a motivator it’s for a reason.
Anyways, here we go I guess. Will post pictures of the space next when I can um… Access it.