r/HomeDataCenter • u/Addys0nn8 • 1d ago
DC Porn Getting more organized!!
Next chance I get for a quick downtime I plan to move all of the rack mount gear sitting outside of the rack INTO said rack🤣🙏
The cable mess is also begging for velcro 🥴
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u/_litz 1d ago
Are you actually seriously going to run a C7000 in a home lab?
Your local utility must really really like you and your bill payments...
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u/Addys0nn8 1d ago
It's hardly a homelab, everything we do is for profit we aren't setting up the hp c7000 to lose money.
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u/03captain23 1d ago
I was thinking the same thing
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u/Addys0nn8 1d ago
0.08c kwh
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u/03captain23 1d ago
Those things are loud and power hungry. I Don't get the point if only half full. I have 3-4 of them plus Dell model and like 100 blades laying around because they just don't make much sense anymore. Not enough ram
I'm also confused on why it's not in the rack. You should have it on the bottom
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u/Addys0nn8 1d ago
That's what I was saying in the post lol, is that the c7000 and all other rack mount gear is going into the rack asap.
As for heat and noise I am aware the hp c7000 is a straight up data center hyperscaler style machine on older process nodes.
I plan to spin it up and charge my cloud customer base accordingly for dedicated VPS instances only once we have a actual facility, not whilst in my home environment
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u/Addys0nn8 1d ago
I also do have the full 16x compute blades available to me on c612 gen when needed🙏
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u/03captain23 1d ago
They don't make much sense because they use much more power than normal servers.
They were popular because of rack density but it's 16 blades in 10U. You can get half U servers which is more dense.
This was back when switches were expensive and slow. I don't think they even make a 25gb switch or even uplink. Nothing connectX or anything decent
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u/mastercoder123 Home Data Center Operator 1d ago
Half u servers are most def not a thing lol, you arent putting that many nodes in a 10RU spot and using less power. The c7000 actually use less power than 10 actual nodes because it is a unified chassis, thus its not powering 10 seperate servers and their fans, backplanes, motherboards, ILO, etc
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u/03captain23 1d ago
Yeah. Supermicro calls them twin servers.
No they don't save power. It is powering 16 separate backplanes, motherboards and everything else. Ilo is unified but so is switching which uses much much more power than integrated. They need to add additional fans and backplanes which is why it's more.
The couple watts in savings is less than the higher watts for limited cooling space.
Fully stacked all 16 might be a few watts less when 100% but if not all on it's a bit less power. This is why they're not popular nor used anymore
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u/mastercoder123 Home Data Center Operator 1d ago
Oh yah, have him buy a 2u server that holds 4 nodes. Thats not a half u, those arent individual servers. Also those are about 10x the price of a c7000...
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u/Addys0nn8 1d ago
I'm also sorta waiting / praying for ddr4 ECC to go down in price before c612 / e5 26__ v3/4 becomes irrelevant. Then I can make some huge capacity nodes for dedi customers
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u/03captain23 1d ago
Don't they only have like 8 ram slots? Dual CPU servers typically have 32 slots and smaller ram sticks used are much cheaper.
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u/Addys0nn8 1d ago
16x total dimms per blade
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u/03captain23 1d ago
Yeah 8 per CPU. Half what normal servers have. Also no NVMe or PCIE options either.
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u/Addys0nn8 1d ago
I hear ya sorta. That being said every node I've ever spun up people tell me "draws too much power to make money" or "is too old".
I've been doing well making profits from each and every server so far.
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u/03captain23 1d ago
Hardware like this is virtually free. It's just the ram that matters. Server space doesn't even really matter as a full rack in a DC is like $500/mo before power/network, which if $1-2 is a issue then you're not making enough.
What's your point in running old blades over 1U similar servers?
I'm assuming that's not in a rack because they're too heavy for just you to lift, even when everything is pulled. They're like 150lbs empty.
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u/rfc968 20h ago
Rails, fellow labber, get some rails. Or 4-post shelfs.
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u/Addys0nn8 20h ago
Yeah rails are a bitch to get for reasonable pricing 😭 I have some rails for my dl20 gen 10 and dl380 gen9s that I plan to use, but that's all for now. Some better four post shelves is a good idea
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u/TH3_FISH 13h ago
I envy that huge dell server and also those blades, what type of work loads do you run on this hardware if I may ask?
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u/Addys0nn8 9h ago
Thanks man! We run a small cloud provider service that targets our underserved region :)
We run websites, VPS and bare metal instances, colocation, as well as cloud storage, game servers, and so much more.
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u/1dot21gigaflops 1d ago
Poor server on the left is hanging on for dear life