yesir. We use them in our Headend to monitor channels that are escalated for issues such as audio desync and Tiling and our Lineman don't see the issue field-side.
I threw my 3D Printer in my Rack - hugely recommend. Some LED Strips when it's on and it turns into a center piece for it. I also have an open frame and instead of an actual monitor rack like you went with, I just use a simple Monitor arm that's off to the side clamped onto the shelving I used for the 3D Printer - allows me to reposition it when I'm working on something else on my workbench which is right next to it - very similar to your setup.
The KVM cables are NOT normal VGA cables, they have extra data pins connected to the unit end that are then broken out at the server end on the USB cable. You put your universal rails in wrong, they mount from behind vertical rack rails.
What I came up with in 2 years of using server rack at home: 1) UPS is not needed in my case. I lived in an old house with bad wiring, so I immediately attended to this issue and spent a lot on it. They are very expensive, and supplying only two GPU farms would cost more than the cost of the rack itself, and the batteries need to be changed every few years. As a result, I extended a separate power line from the electricity meter with it's own RCD and installed a voltage stabiliser + do checkpoints more often 2) extra shelves clogged with the wrong stuff 3) sitting at the rack is not very convenient, each time pushing-pulling out the periphery tires. If space permits, it is better to put a compact table nearby. It's not as aesthetically pleasing, but much more convenient. 4) It is better not to put a 3D printer on a server rack. Rack is not super solid, nor is the shelf, and the 3D printer can produce vibrations. The difference in print quality on the floor vs rack is small, but noticeable 5) ground the rack and cases, less dust will accumulate :)
7:13 those monitors are for broadcast live events or tv stations, that's why the advertise them with live events because the "control master" needs to see many cameras. Those monitors are also rack mounted because the control tv room also have many racks, but I'm not sure that those racks has the same width of network racks, so they probably won't fit.
@@mirror71 I believe the 23" racks are for older telco gear. I worked in tv for 11 years and never saw a rack that wasn't 19". Biggest difference I saw between racks marketed to A/V pros and those marketed to IT is that the A/V ones always rails with tapped holes with #10/32 or #8/24 threads instead of square cutouts for cage nuts. But anyways, always 19".
@@eh5806 I'm probably out of date here. The last time I worked in that area was right as the switch from analog to digital was happening. At that time, we were primarily 19" but still had some 23" gear that was always a pain.
there are also event streamers that put racks in their road cases and simply open up a side of the case and just power it up and are ready to go quickly. There are so many uses.
You could maybe put a shelf behind the monitor for more lose stuff or put the monitor on a arm, otherwise would be cool if you built your own 1u monitor mouse keyboard combo :P
What is the total power consumption of entire rack ? I put a sticker on each machine mentioning how much a current it sucks at idle. And an ammeter at the rack top displaying the current in amperes. I will know when a machine goes bad it starts sucking more power. Or at least I will know when there is action taking place :)
dont worry about the wood, I've had a wood floor in my rack for over 2 years at this point, as I dont have rails for my server and I dont want the cables in the back to break if the back of the server falls in while pulling it out.
Just wanted to throw in the football ad stuff you said was because those are usually used by broadcasters, especially at live events, in like tailor made vans or mobile studios.
These Amazon rack mounts work great. "Rackstuds P20 Rack Mount Solution Series II - No More Cage Nuts! The Easiest and Safest Server Rack Solution in 19" Racks with Square Punched Vertical Rails | 20-Pack, Purple, 3.2mm/0.126" Version"
I don't mind having towers at the bottom of the rack, in my experience this is quite common in home to small/medium business. Anyways this looks good and I'm jelly!
7:08 those product pictures are like that, because those rack-mounted monitors are mostly geared towards the live broadcasting space of sport events e.g. That's also why you see a Blackmagic rack-mount monitor there. This is also the reason why they're very expensive: they are probably color calibrated in such a way that they are suitable for live broadcasts.
@@sentdex I gotcha. I realize you know what I mean though. Good that you are not obsesses with showing off your belongings and do it for your yourself.
I have a 1U KVM like the one you showed, but it was used and came with my rack. It's main problem is that it's so old that it's VGA and the older style PS2 keyboard/mouse connectors. Oh and the cables are about a billion feet long. I no longer use it because servers themselves all have IPMI or iDRAC interfaces that let you get virtual consoles.
Your build is very efficient. Why you don't sell your old PCs and buy new one for that system? I think it would be way cooler with multi CPU, multi GPU and multi OS.
In this case the monitor did have the VESA mount apparently only to be able to attach something like a mini PC or diskless client to the back of the monitor
Looks good man 👍 I’ve got a singular UPS battery in my rack: if you’re open to tinkering, you can run NUT (network ups tools) on a server (or raspberry pi), and even with a single battery it would last enough to safely save&shut down all your apps and servers, should anything happen
Which monitor and vesa adapter are these? I swear, I need the exact same model, because that just looks so perfect and after seeing this, I don't want to have anything else. I didn't care that I need to take the monitor apar to get rid of the leg.
i guess the VGA and USB thing works like powerline, you have an analog signal between a frequency range and then you send digital signals on it using 2.4ghz or something similar and they never conflict.
I am in a space that I built for this purpose. Currently in the middle of a heat wave and things are more than comfy in here. Most of the heat-generating machines I already had anyway, I just changed how they're stored. I might have even net-reduced my power draw with all the monitors I've removed from the equation :D
Not sure what you've done since this video, but I just commented on P1 and mentioned some 30-35" deep shelves you can get on Ama but, after looking closer at what you did with the wood, you might want to just stick with the wood in the bottom. Maybe cut another narrow piece to use the full width and maybe some joining brackets or other hardware on the bottom, so it is one joined piece of wood and just paint it black. I say this because a full-depth self would have to start at 1U and you're getting a little extra space doing it the way you have here. And also, there were not many full-depth shelves available at decent prices, and a sturdy one would be expensive. So, I think the wood idea might be better than a shelf if you just refine it a bit.
You should upload to Rumble as well. I know myself, and a fair chunk of other people are moving away from Google, and I would hate to lose your content.
Why have the switches at the front? All the nics are in the back, so that's where the switches goes too. And before someone says the the switches goes in the front due to airflow, it totally doesn't matter with a free standing rack. Data centres with hot isles and cold isles have walls that prevents hot air from one side of the racks from mixing with cold air on the other side of the racks - with a free standing rack the hot and cold air mix no matter which way you mount the equipment. Secondly, don't put patch panels between two switches, that's just make the ports on the rear of the panel hard to see and reach. Put them at the top and in the back, that way the cabling from the rest of the house can come in from the top and not get in the way of the rest of the equipment in the rack.
man, what kind of setup do you use for filming? i mean ok this suggested to me i'm not a subscriber but for the first few seconds i almost swear i was watching a 3d render because of the lighting.....
This is the best setup I've seen in a long time! What is the 'top-like' process monitoring utility you have running there at 9:14? I have not yet used that.
There’s a high chance you’ve mentioned it in one of the videos but I was wondering, how much did this all cost you? (including or excluding previously bought items, just a rough estimate) thanks!
7:15 live tv broadcasters have needs for small rack mounted moniters, when your monitoring multiple cameras and source feeds in the back of vans... my old job was autos electrical for a broadcaster, some those guys will have between 5 to a dozen rack mounted 10in screens and like 1x ultra wide or 2x 27in monitors at the console. Wiring side of things I couldn't tell ya, separate team handled that stuff, I just modified the vehicle electrical to support their gear and serviced the inverters, batteries and 12v electrical.
My colegue was at client site in the server room and they had small monitor in the rack and Golf was playing on that so..someone may be watching fotball on that :)
I have a question I would like to buy a fully managed refurbished cisco switch 2960s 24 ports, but is it better than for example buying a tp link? what would the advantages be besides cli configuration?
Any time I see this server case the rosewell 12 bay hotswap I hurt a little. I have this case. Started to have issues with drives all in one bay. Started to Google the problem. Tons of people have the same issues. I moved to there non hotswap bays and issues have been resolved. Watch it carefully.
Trendnet and TPLink... ick.... I've had nothing but crap experiance with both of those... I love Ubiquity... I was running cisco, but price and licenses for anything to work is insane... Unifi works so good for home lab and home deployments....
Next will be to address a capable UPS able to handle 75% of your peak load without breaking a sweat otherwise during an interruption some will suck up too much resulting in boot loops. Also depends on how long you want your systems to run in an outage. Some automatons for graceful shutdowns and monitoring. Lastly, on networking I didn't see anything about a proper router/firewall ..Maybe you don't have a need for segmenting your network? Maybe you don't access you devices away from home? Or you don't have devices on your network that you'd consider untrustworthy or risky?
The only thing I really want protected via UPS is the NAS. Beyond this, maybe the modem so internet doesnt knock out for 2 minutes on a power flicker, but ...really mostly just the NAS which is pretty low power. I might later add more UPS to some of the other compute machines, but the only thing that houses anything I'd be sad to lose is the NAS. As for firewall, nothing in the rack is currently remotely accessible.
@@sentdex Really like the engagement! It started all the way from your 1st vid on you building a home lab. On the firewall/router as from my last point ...even on a LAN I wonder if there are devices that can see into it and have internet/WAN access ... Yes I know of the double NAT but some of these cheapo devices initiate the traffic to the outside and when they or their infra become compromised ARP/Ethernet scanning on your LAN is trivial/easy ...
