NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

Sat Aug 13 11:01:54 UTC 2011

At 07:28 PM 8/12/2011, you wrote:
>I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? On
>the extreme end of course we have mr morris :)
>with his uber lab: http://smorris.uber-geek.net/lab.htm

I have a 60KVA Kohler diesel genset (with DM550 controller and 
electronic governor) with Kohler ATS (with Ethernet interface to both 
Genset and ATS for control and monitoring), a 400 gallon diesel tank 
which will run the entire house for about 2-3 weeks, Two Dell racks 
with a range of gear from a DAS box with 48TB for movies (ripped 
BluRays) to the usual mail, web, and file servers. I have a 3 ton 
split wallmount system for cooling the computer room. I have a whole 
house automation system and I have BCMs on the 84 position main 
breaker panel. Various WAPs around the house are powered via PoE from 
a Dell switch, I have two Cisco ASA5505s in failover config for 
remote access and firewall and NAT purposes. There are three VLANs - 
one for the kids computers, XBox, TVs, Wii, etc. and one for 
business, and one for automation and telemetry (temp, humidity, 
lighting, etc.) Each rack has dual double conversion Powerware 9XXX 
RM UPS units with external batteries and Ethernet interface. This is 
probably overkill, but I knew I liked what I had at work so I build a 
mini version at home. I also have lots of misc little switches from 
Cisco/Linksys around the house in wiring closets and equipment racks 
including PoE for the video cameras outside. The theater room has a 
small rack which houses the surround sound amp, a PC for media 
access, and the Ethernet to IR interface boxes to control the DVD 
player, receiver, projector, and buttkicker amps. I use a combination 
of Lutron, iRule, MyMovies, a few custom apps, and a custom 
thermostat system I built to control the home automation, media, and 
theater from any iPad or iPhone in the house.

-Robert

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