Slowly but surely most systems are getting installed and configured, so I thought it would be a good time to do an update on the equipment i’m using.
Front view:
An equipment rundown from top to bottom:
- Cisco 2621XM + ASYNC Card — OOB management
- Cisco N2K-C2248TP FEX — Management traffic
- Ripe Anchor
- OPNSense DEC-2750 — Firewall / VPN Concentrator
- Cisco 2950 Router — DHCP Server
- Cisco 2950 Router — Voice Router (CUCM Gateway)
- Cisco N5K-5672UP — Coreswitch A
- Cisco N5K-5672UP — Coreswitch B
- Dell R630 — BMC, vCenter, Management, Monitoring, …
- OEM Box — TrueNas | 16TB NVMe
- Dell MD1400 — Truenas DAS | 48TB HDD
- OEM Box — VMWare Node 1
- OEM Box — VMWare Node 2
- Dell R730 — Threefold Node (testing)
- Dell R720XD — Onsite backup | 48TB
- APC Smart-UPS 3000 (Feed A)
- APC Smart-UPS 3000 (Feed B)
Back view internals:
On the back there’s mostly cabling but also some power equipment:
- 2x AP8959EU3 PDU
- 2x MGE HotSwap MBP UPS Bypass
A thing still on the to do list is to create a nice patch panel for the incoming power and fiber connections.
And here’s some shots of the chilled door which has been awesome so far:
A quick overview of the custom TrueNas and ESXi servers I built:
All the custom servers are built using an 2U Inter-Tech chassis, SuperMicro X12 boards and Intel Scalable processors. Below are the specs as of writing this post:
TrueNas server:
- Inter-Tech IPC 2U-20248 Rack case
- ASPower R2A-DV0800-N Redundant PSU
- Supermicro X12SPI-TF-O Board
- Intel Xeon Gold 5315Y
- 64GB ECC Memory
- FS Dual-Port 40G QSFP+ NIC
- 2x Samsung 960GB PM9A3 M.2 NVMe (Boot)
- Icy Dock MB834M2K-B Hot swap bay
- 8x Samsung 1.9TB PM9A3 U.2 NVMe (Data)
- 2x Icy Dock MB699VP-B V2 Hot swap bay
- 2x Supermicro AOC-SLG4-4E4T HBA’s for the Data disks
- LSI SAS 9300-8e 12G SAS HBA for the Dell MD1400
ESXi nodes:
- Inter-Tech IPC 2U-2055 Rack Case
- ASPower R2A-DV0800-N Redundant PSU
- Supermicro X12SPM-LN6TF Board
- Intel Xeon Silver 4314
- 128GB ECC Memory
- FS Dual-Port 10G SFP+ NIC
- Intel VROC Key
- 2x Samsung 960GB PM9A3 M.2 NVMe (Boot)
- Icy Dock MB834M2K-B Hot swap bay
