 So with all the posting I've done on social media and YouTube things like our Norco cabinet here and our Surveillance server and our other servers and all that stuff people have been hounding me What are you actually going to do a tour of the server room? And it's finally here I've been putting it off and putting it off and putting it off because I keep making little changes and upgrades and tweaks But it's at the point now where everything is pretty much up and running so today I'm going to be putting some finishing touches on it in terms of cable management and well actually closing up the side of the cabinet here and Giving you guys a tour of all the equipment that we've got in the Linus Media Group server closet The Logitech G303 features a lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with Delta Zero technology and RGB lighting to match your setup check out the link in the video description to learn more So I want to start by responding to one of the criticisms people had of our server room when I first started posting pictures On social media and that was that we didn't have any backup So we're going to be using the Logitech G303 And we're going to be using the Logitech G303 And the reason we didn't have any backup power is because of our server room when I first started posting pictures on social media And that was that we didn't have any backup power as the savvy among you will know it's extraordinarily important really for any machine, but especially for a server to not lose power Unexpectedly so a UPS and in fact we actually do have a number of them for total in the cabinet here a UPS To the building it also acts to smooth out the incoming power Which is good for the well the life expectancy of any of the hardware that is hooked up to it So there is one issue though the ones we've got here Were refurb units that were sponsored by General Electric and it turned out that we had some issues with the batteries in some of them The good news though. I've got my three replacements right here ready to install. Ah So while I'm pulling these out I guess I'll give a bit of an explanation for how the the room came to be number one Originally there were actually supposed to be Two cabinets in here one full height and one half height right next to it So I thought I could just kind of set and forget the back of it and then not worry too much Well, I have needed access to the back of this server cabinet Pretty much every other day. This is my brilliant system right now for Controlling any of these computers. I got my monitor down there. I got my keyboard mouse here So so this is ridiculous so I learned a couple of things number one is that the 24 you cabinet that I have out there is never coming in here and number two, I need a better system for Using a monitor keyboard and mouse on these servers So this is a trend net something or other KVM and this was sent to us by RackSolutions.com To hold a keyboard and mouse and wall mount them and tuck them away So I'll show you guys that in a minute. The one thing that did Thankfully work out was the cooling solution for the room I had originally planned to not hook it up to the air conditioning this passive air intake and That ducted fan up there actually replaces the air in this room about once per minute And it has turned out to be just fine thankfully So with the construction going on while we were moving in as you can imagine Dust in this room has been a freaking nightmare I have taken every single one of these servers out three times since first installing them and Dusted them and I'm probably gonna have to do it once more in the future. I'm gonna put some kind of a Of a filter on this and along the bottom of the door, but in the meantime now, it's not nearly as bad now that the construction is no longer going on in the warehouse outside and Now that we've sealed the concrete floor So with the new UPS is installed in order to Minimize downtime for those guys in there while I switch all the systems over to it I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna get my KVM set up First before I mount this to the wall this Is really cool. It's got a nice little Really cool. It's got a little magnetic closing thing on the top. It goes onto the wall a little something like that comes with some mounting hardware keyboard mouse and Yeah, all that's left is to make sure it fits Yes, we're good Maybe I have to use deep scan though. There should be a stud next to this I need to know where it is Okay. Well fine. I'm just gonna go with drywall screws because This is already too much work So that is gonna be pretty tight my friends Pretty tight indeed All right Don't tell me I hit a stud awesome What the hell I went to mount this thing with all drywall screws And I hit wood all four times so I don't need them at all so i'm just putting the wood screws right in All right now let's double check the door So tight Awesome So tight awesome My good buddy taren here asked me However, shall you keep the keyboard in place? when you close the door surely That will happen To which I replied They thought of that This my friends is a strip of industrial strength velcro So you're not gonna velcro the mouse down are you no i'm not going to velcro the mouse down So cool, all right, so now Oh crap Let's try that again There we go Look at that. There's little cable management holes I can take my mouse wire And keep it in place with this not too shabby Okay, so next step then monitor mount Okay. Well this old samsung seems to work so I guess we'll uh We'll go with this puppy. Okay. So the first thing we need to do is take it off the uh Included stand we could also look at the instructions put the thing on the thing for Like this All right now we got a wall mount this puppy Okay, I guess right about there Linus media group we put the ball in and eyeball it. All right Let's see if we manage to stay in the drywall this time the heck Uh, you tripped the breaker Oh, yeah, well Maybe this is like standard practice. Maybe it's plywood behind this whole thing. I'm just Not aware of that Okay, I think it's just plywood back there that's cool so now this baby Goes on there for the final step you put the monitor on just kidding guys Oh wait Oh, I I did do it upside down Wait, what? Damn it Yes It's amazing. They even let me have power tools I even thought to myself When I was test fitting it Wow, it's really weird that they have you put the hooks on the bottom and then put the thumbscrew in on the top It seems like it'd be a lot easier if you went the other way around Boop All right. So the next step is to figure out how and where To mount our kvms Okay, so that's interesting The issue is that these are not going to make it around to the backs of these computers unless I take This side cover off on the other side, which which is an option. I think I think i'm going to do that Um, okay. Hold on There's a zip tie on there Okay We're good. So this is just going to come off And go with the other one that I also have not ever put on yet. Oh, yeah, just hold this here Okay You know what let's plug into the main storage server Haha, it works So now all that's left is to finalize the position for this puppy These this is supposed to go in the rack But I didn't want to take up any rack space with it because as you can see it's fairly limited at this point So I was thinking i'll just put them on this way but the holes Pretty much don't line up at all. I can only do One at a time. So we're gonna try that we're gonna hope for the best. This thing isn't too heavy We'll see how it goes Is your kvm earthquake safe? Mine's not Oh, wish i'd gotten a drill get on my level Well, that looks uncomfortable doesn't it what's getting on my level? Oh, thank goodness, okay realistically that's not going anywhere so now I'm gonna run around and plug all this stuff in and then i'm gonna let everyone know that the servers are going to be down For a little bit. So uh hang tight Right about Yeah Yeah, okay, so we can actually check all of them. Okay? Cool All right. So the kvm solution totally works all that's left now is to shut everything down do some cable management And then i'll give you guys a tour of exactly what everything in the rack is Uh, hey Can you guys save your work? We're gonna have a network outage for about 20 minutes Everyone likes it when I work on the server room. All right, let's go shut down So i'm gonna get a call from the security company telling us that our Security system is shut down Wow, it is astonishing how much quieter it is in here with none of these systems running so let's get The setup of doom the crap out of here Oh, so frustrating So I moved a bunch of uh, these power squids in here And now I need them out And we just got to do a little bit of cable management back here And then we're actually in a pretty good shape What is this? Perhaps it is important Well, can you unplug it? Are you sure? Yeah Okay, so that goes there This goes here We oh, oh, okay Here we oh, oh son of a Cable management do you want it done nicely or do you want it done fast? Oh shoot. No, don't turn on not now Okay, um Oh balls. Okay. Things are turning on randomly now so that It's gonna go Right there Uh, yes, it's okay. I am just uh, I'm just plugging it back in now Oh shut up I need a longer cord All right, let's power on all the ups's One two Okay Okay, that is too long for where it's running to what the crap Is this There we go Okay, so I think we're gonna call the front good enough She does close except for this cable that I have running out of the room to the wancho. Whoa, what are you? Oh, yeah, that's another that's another one that runs out of the room Yeah, so we'll fire frazer back up next I guess the vault is ready to come back up The surveillance system is back up So now that we've got everything pretty much good to go I do need a better solution for some of these ethernet cables running out the front door, but We're calling it good enough for now. I'll walk you guys through everything that's in here So this is our mrv. This is provided by our internet service provider. They figured it cost somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand dollars Fortunately, we don't have to buy that we just lease it these are the Terminations for all of our cat 6a wiring throughout the entire building Yes, we are full cat 6a even where it doesn't make any sense Thanks to a small miscommunication between my wife and the builders this is our cisco router which we will actually be replacing because This puppy is a little bit difficult for us to configure since none of us are cisco certified And you got to do it all via command line and because it's a little bit older and underpowered for the gigabit That's 1000 up 1000 down connection that we have in here So we'll be replacing this with a pf sense box fairly shortly This is our 48 port gigabit switch with a couple of 10 gigabit sfp plus ports over here This is our 10 gigabit switch This is the the heart of most of the servers and the editing den where everyone has a 10 gig Ethernet connection. Mmm This right here is the surveillance server, which you've seen before it's Chalk full of wd purple drives asus ws board all that kind of reliable Awesome stuff. This is our first ups So this handles most of the networking gear and then this is our 24 ssd server. It has 24 960 gig kingston ssd is in here in raid 50 So this is a raid 5 this is a raid 5 This is a raid 5 and they're all striped together from within windows This does most of our file server duties for any of the projects that we're working on It is equipped with an as rock motherboard. It's an x99 board But we threw a xeon and ecc memory in there anyway because it's a workstation board that does support those particular parts Um, it's got a redundant power supply in it now That was something that I didn't get around to till quite a bit later and it's got dual 10 gigabit ethernet on board So this is one that actually has a trunked connection so it's capable of 20 gigabit per second with multiple people hitting it At the same time this right here is a newton server. This is our approximately I think it's about 118 terabytes or something like that. This is the vault the archival server whenever we're done working on something It goes off of wannock and onto the vault This one only has a single 10 gigabit connection because frankly we don't need to access it that often and this This is the really fun machine I'm gonna have a full video on the way that this server has completely changed our video editing workflow in the near future here But this is phraser server. It has dual 18 core xeons 128 gigs of ram 2 titan blacks and uh Oh, yeah, it's actually I threw a raid card and about a 20 terabyte raid array in there now as well So what happens here is whenever we ingest footage it crunches it and makes it easier to work on then when we're done our videos This crunches them to the finished formats that we upload to the various video sites that we upload to and this is a very Cool little piece of machinery, and it's the only one that actually extends Outside the room so this is the workstation that's actually hooked up through a thunderbolt Thunderbolt and usb3 to that server in the room and what we do here is we take all of our media So you can see we've got this fancy pants thunderbolt card reader We've got an active star tech usb3 cable leading to this thermal take dual drive dock And i'm actually going to pick up another one of those so that we can have quite a few ssd docks Our fs 700 and our black magic cinema cameras all shoot onto ssd and then we've got this cal digit Thunderbolt breakout box here that we use to run our peripherals And then we're using a pass-through to a display port monitor So this is where we actually interface directly with that machine and that video will be coming hopefully sometime pretty soon because we made some pretty Amazing discoveries with respect to video editing workflows and how they can be improved So simply put battle nation.com is a place to go and vote on your favorite enthusiast grade pc Components and determine with your fellow enthusiasts which ones are the best? 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