lab details

I'm a lucky boy, this is my lab setup. It contains

• aldebaran, a synology DS1513+ with 4 threads and 4gb of ram, does a whole range of things mostly (but not all) from a debian chroot: named, dhcp, iscsi, nfs, tvheadend server (there are 2 hd homerun dual tv tuners hidden behind there) and since DSM 5.1 docker containers: puppet opensource, gogs git server, docker registry server and web frontend as well as other home/network/nas type services. Its also the gateway between the home network and the lab network which is on a 3 nic lacp bond
• 3x hp microservers (bartledan, cwulzenda and dangrabad) with 2 threads, 8gb of ram and drac cards - mostly used for testing (dangrabad also has a backup copy of the synology data)
• esflolvian, an intel nuc with 2 threads and 8gb ram, primarily vpn server, backup services and docker test env.
• voondon, an hp z600 with 24 threads and 24gb or ram, primarily running eucalyptus 4.1 (my favourite thing)
• zirzla, the other hp z600 with 8 threads and 12gb of ram, primarily kvm host and openstack kilo
• an old sun e250 - mostly a shelf for a ups and the hd homerun tuners these days

All bar esflovian have at least 3x1gb nics and if you didn't notice they're all named after places in the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy universe.

The core services (aldebaran, esflovian and the router) are always up and powered from an 850va ups manged with a nut module pushed from puppet, the microservers and hp z600's are powered by a 1500va ups (also nut) which is turned on/off with a wemo switch. This enables me to power on/off the whole lab part of the network remotely.

This gives me a pretty good lab for testing pretty much anything I want.

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There's also a old half height rack in the garage with 3xsunfire v20's, a sun t2000 (sadly it needs a fan), and an old ironport which turns out to actually be a dell poweredge server when you flash the appropriate dell bios - none of this has been powered on for a while now though (why would I 8-)