Hi guys
Many apologies for my crapiness... My daughter went back last night, so felt sorry for myself and Dirt 3 was played till late and well...
So.. Here we go.. A list of what I use, well try too
I'll start with the more interesting things I guess!!
The R710 is for my VMware teaching! Since I've been in IT I've been learning new things left right and center, so I've got the R710 setup with VMWare with ESXI 6.0 and I have four VM's at the moment, they are as follows -
One VM is for a cruncher machine ( two L5640's in there) and that runs Linux. Not only did this get me into Linux, but it is also helping me with learning it as well!! Commands seem a lot like Windows or just very similar. Getting used to it a little, but we don't use it a lot at all at work, so mostly for home and crunching
I've two Windows Server Datacenter 2012 R2's installed for setting up domains and all the things we do at work within AD and such, so setting up shares and so on, I've had to learn. I've been trying to get around to setting up a domain on one of these just to see how difficult and so I can learn with the different setups etc.. Again not going quite so well, but I'll be putting my head into it a little more soon I hope
The last by not least is another VM for Synology, I've been playing about trying to get it to mirror a few shares on my main Synology box, but it was acting a little weird and I wasn't sure what was going on with it.. Again, more of a play around toy than anything because I wanted to learn and play about with sync'ing two together.. Still more to work on that one as well
My home Network is basic, I've run Cat 5e around the house, so everything is 1Gb
I do plan when I move to upgrade to 10Gb and to use more ports, I'm not sure 16 was enough.. Since I hate Wi-Fi with a passion, I prefer a cabled network, so, I'd like to put in 10Gb so I can make sure it'll never be the bottleneck
The HP V18-10-48G J9660A, was given to me via the guys at work (same as the HP server cabinet and the Dell R710, plus the LTO 5 tape drive and a few other things! I'm really very grateful for it but I hope it'll all help towards me going into IT in the direction of where I'd like to end up.. but moving on!!) so we have a Plus.net home router (the DrayTek I'm not such a fan of, also given to me from work - considering a change of routers but because I'm just using the standard one from my ISP, I don't see the point in changing now.. Especially as I'm hoping for FTTP at some point.. But hey, here's hoping!!) The HP switch is also a fully managed unit, so again, something else I'm learning from work about doing V Lans and all sorts of things.. All things I want to learn, just never seem to get the time in the day at work to sit down with someone and see how to do it!! Might have to bribe someone to spend a few hours at home working me through it all!!
The Growatt unit on top of the switch is a unit for my Solar Panels. It allows me to see what I produce each day and so on, gives me lovely graphs and so on but it seems to cut out every so often, so it drives me crazy.. When it works it's lovely and gives me as the screen shot attached in post 21..
Now for all the hardware stuffed on the desks about the room.. Well I'm a hardware whore and I think I like it!!
I'm a collector for anything new, old, retro or even accient! I have hardware back to the Socket A days from AMD and the newest I have is Z170 or X99.. The rest of what you see is things I've been given over time and things that I used to use for benching which I used to do when I first had set backs in 2015 with my ex and my daughter.. Short story, ended up spending far too much and getting nowhere, so I just stopped and got into gaming...
As you can see I have older upto some slightly newer motherboards, 462, 939, 775, AM3, 1366, 2011-3, 1155, 1150, 1151 and I'm still hoping to track a few more down but I'm not in a massive rush so, I'll hold on still I have some 'free' money
Due to the pay cut of taking the IT job, I've nothing spare at all each month, so I've got to be very careful
I also collect and have a few older consoles (anything from NES and Master System V2 to Wii and Sega Dreamcast) for games I've played or just wanted to keep. I've a few nothing massive compared to some of the guys but I collect what I like rather than things I know everyone else does. I like being unique
I've a few spare GPUs laying about for testing from when I mined a bit but they are being used for gaming now, they are perfect for anyone coming over for a LAN session or even for my daughter for her gaming rig (Ryzen eventually!!)
I currently use my Z77 OCF board with a 2600K in it for my daily system, Windows 10 with a 1070 in there for anything really. I do wish I had bought a 1080 now, but meh!!
It's nothing massively to write home about, nothing else I really do it with but it's worked amazingly for a good year, I'm very pleased with it
My little black box underneath it is my Synology box. Stores everything on it.. It's currently got 6 4Tb WD Red's, although I'd like to consider 8 8Tb drives or bigger when I upgrade it eventually ... I will however buy an extra 4 drives of whatever size I do get, so I can make straight backups that won't be raided or anything, this will just be for backups. Hopefully I can get the tape drive working and then I'll have another way of backing up as I have a blu ray writer as well for just that
It's a flawless little system. Only a G3258 with 16Gb of ram and the 6 4Tb Reds, they are in Raid 1, so 12Tb ish usable. Runs 6.1. something but when I get it backed up, I'll see if it works with the newer 6.2 they have released.. Very pleased with it, runs great, it's quiet and I don't get issues with it at all.. If only the R710 was as quiet and used as much power as this does!! lol
If I've missed anything out or someone wants to know anything, please feel free to ask, but as it's much later than I hoped it would be, I need some sleep!!
Thanks for listening to me rant on, I hope I've not bored anyone to death!!
that's how I got some of it
