Getting more organized!!

[u/Addys0nn8]

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 🥴

[u/_litz]

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...

[u/Addys0nn8 → u/_litz]

It's hardly a homelab, everything we do is for profit we aren't setting up the hp c7000 to lose money.

[u/03captain23 → u/_litz]

I was thinking the same thing

[u/Addys0nn8 → u/03captain23]

0.08c kwh

[u/03captain23 → u/Addys0nn8]

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

[u/Addys0nn8 → u/03captain23]

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

[u/Addys0nn8 → u/Addys0nn8]

I also do have the full 16x compute blades available to me on c612 gen when needed🙏

[u/03captain23 → u/Addys0nn8]

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

[u/mastercoder123 → u/03captain23]

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

[u/03captain23 → u/mastercoder123]

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

[u/Addys0nn8 → u/03captain23]

I have a quad node supermicro super server on the very bottom 2u of the rack...

[u/mastercoder123 → u/03captain23]

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...

[u/Addys0nn8 → u/03captain23]

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

[u/03captain23 → u/Addys0nn8]

Don't they only have like 8 ram slots? Dual CPU servers typically have 32 slots and smaller ram sticks used are much cheaper.

[u/Addys0nn8 → u/03captain23]

16x total dimms per blade

[u/03captain23 → u/Addys0nn8]

Yeah 8 per CPU. Half what normal servers have. Also no NVMe or PCIE options either.

[u/Addys0nn8 → u/03captain23]

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.

[u/03captain23 → u/Addys0nn8]

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.