It's important for me to introduce the cast of characters regarding my future blogs of random stuff. Let me begin with a setting:
"It was a dark, stormy night in Pete's office. Dark, Stormy nights are particularly bad for Pete's Office, since he has a lot of technology but no battery backup. Dark, Stormy nights are also difficult for Pete because if the power goes out, he trips over all the crap in his office getting out."
The cast:
elysium - 8U Dell PowerEdge 6330 (It weighs a freaking ton!) - Xen system
alexandria - 4U mini-SAN (iSCSI, LVM, Athlon with 384mb of ram)
vmhost01 - big tower (soon to be 4U) dual-proc athlon MP box with 2gb ram - vmware server.
virgil - athlon x64 desktop.
fmusptwsan001 -- New san box, big scsi cards with cylon-eye-like LED's.
4U Drive array with 8x18GB 10k scsi drives connected to fmusptwsan001
hamshack - Old p3 for my ham radio stuff.
hermes - IBM Netfinity 1U dual-proc p3 for asterisk, dhcp, some other misc goodies.
Now, you may ask yourself: "Why on earth does he have all this equipment but no battery backup?" The answer? I'm cheap. At some point I'll invest in a rackmount 3kVa ups for my little setup, but until then I live dangerously. Hell, it's just my local LAN.
...Which is part of the reason why I'm writing this blog. Old surplus hardware can be made to do amazingly interesting things. That's what I'm all about.
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