Saturday, September 07, 2019

Your own personal datacenter


About a year ago, I decided to build my own personal datacenter. I won't go into gory specifics, except to say that I tried to buy a VxRail cluster, and discovered that I am not a billionaire or a business with a capital budget.

SO off to my favorite auction site I went, and found a great assortment of gently used Dell EMC Poweredge servers. I chose 4 of them, bought a couple of Ubiquiti switches to add to my home network, and off I went.

Here's how things are currently cabled:


And here is what my home cloud is running:


It's all VMware based, but I'll be adding Red Hat OpenShift and Kabanero.io once the RAM I ordered arrives. Fun times ahead.

/finis



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