Just a piece of friendly advice - never make a video showing your firewall/perimeter/security infrastructure or put out drawings with actual info on your network.
Hi guys, I am watching your videos from other side of the world (Croatia/Eu) and I must say that I learned a lot. This kind of videos are a few levels higher than everybody's in the industry. The tips, procedures, production, everything; bottomline: useful and cool behind the curtain view. Keep on going - it is way to go. This got to be one of the mains channel of bringing new customers passively cause it's "real stuff" and looks well intentional, honest - not some marketing hype. People want to make business with you from all around the world. :)
Great video! I’m a VMware pro myself.... you guys got me thinking about a project for this weekend. Just pulled pulled an old PE 2900 out of the garage. Going to build myself a new / used lab setup this weekend! Thanks again guys for the great videos you do. Can’t wait for Ep2.
i must say im like 70% sure this channel had something to do with my interest in servers.... I just started running my own home NAS off old Dell r410 and just upgraded it
You mention in your next video you'll be using a USB flashdrive to load the ESXi host onto; I would definitely consider using the Dell IDSDM (internal card to house single or redundant cards) for long-term hosts to load ESXi rather than the flashdrive as the flashdrive will eventually fail after ~2 years of use and will not recover from a reboot. Since this is an educational video, the flashdrive works just fine though! ;)
When u spread thermal paste, air gets in and it causes higher temps. The pressure of the heatsink will naturally spread a blob of thermal paste without introducing air in.
Nice video! Just put my home HP DL380 G7 into "production" this weekend running ESXi. Only running pfSense vm and Debian vm (with some ZFS storage) for now. Planning to do more.
Hey Guys, love the videos and the inside of you’re particular datacenter. But please dump the yellow ear protectors and just but in-ear fitted hearing protection. These are better for you’re ears and the environment.
so i usually spread the thinnest layer possible on the heat sink then a slightly thicker one on the CPU and before i tighten the tension device i will wiggle the heat sink around to ensure an even spread of the compound and then tighten it down
I am curios, which hyper visor you will be using? I still use a few r710 and r720 at home, mostly for cheap ram and storage. I have 200 plus gigs of ram with around 70t hd. They are great for testing and handling movie storage for the house. That being said, I switched to xcp-ng a year ago due to not being able to use the latest esxi because of the cpu nag from VMware.
@@ruwn561 tried proxmox wanted to like it, just not as polished in multiple areas for my enterprise. Keep in mind I came from VMware which is great and the norm. Since I run 100 plus newer servers that I swapped from vmware to xcp-ng having the same at home to play around works best for me.
Wait a minute. Why spread the paste so much when the only thing under the lid is a very small dye(is that how its spelled?). So you effectively only need the past in the middle to cool that dye.
The CPU has a heatspreader to... spread the heat from the tiny die over a bigger area. Up to a certain point, the more contact it has with the heat-removing thing (the heatsink), the better.
I get the feeling neither of you ate a cookie today. If so, please do. You'll find that all your worries and problems no longer present in the mental space. If you are polite to the cookie. His friends may go out of their way to make life easier for you.
@@bonemealmc dual Xeon E5420 (2.5GHz, 6M cache, Dual core w/ hyperthreading), kinda shit however I can safely run 2 modded servers (ftb infinity and the 1.7.10 pack) at the same time, with about 10-20 players per server and no TPS hit
@@DementiaAcerbus yes but when making a video it serves no purpose to do it in a room where the noice is this high. You build in a quite place so you can explain everything with the server room noice. When done you transfer the server to the correct room and continue from there. if there is noice then i expect it because you are now installing the server in the rack.
18 core somethings ha.. there was just a release of a new AMD CPU called epyc rome 7742 and 7702 processors that are both 64 core 128 thread (both over 3 ghz boost clock speeds) not sure if you've heard about them yet
They probably had and i´m sure they have Servers equipped with that in the DC. But a) these are Overkill, because they showed some setups for "homelab" and b) They are EXPENSIVE AF, compared to used Parts from 5 or 6 Years ago, which are mostly way more powerful than u need in an Homelab. But yes, Intel lost this Part of Market too, lol.
The R730XD it's older tech but they actually can support two 22 cores 48 threads cpu (E5-2699 V4) but they are pretty expensive. Those new AMD cpu's are nice but they are like 15K for a pair of them...a propper server configured with those with all the bells and whistles it's close to 40K.
dont forget xcp-ng. would have been nice if the server models were in the description cuz its really hard to hear them over the servers. sounds like James is saying 'dell porridge r510". cringes at the spread, but ua-cam.com/video/r2MEAnZ3swQ/v-deo.html says its the same anyway, so it seems pointless.
Dell R510 Dell R620 Dell 2950 Dell R730xd Cant turn the servers off though can they... might make some people angry :) + is it not cool to see these things inside a DC rather than some random office room ?
@@Blastgameingrig I'm pretty sure that at no point did i suggest turning anything off or working in a different room....one of the problems with listing the servers in a comment is that comments get buried in other comments, which doesn't occur with the video description. unless it's a pinned comment. thanks for the list though.
@James Family still laughs at me if I spend 10 mins or so carefullly applying the thinnest layer of thermal compound all over the IHS... Now I can tell them, that they do it the same way in datacentres xD
Great that you keep ESD in mind, not.. oh boy!! The way he's placing the RAM dimms 0_0 Never touch the actual memory chips, some static electricity will generate some errors over time and kill your dimms eventually
@@mynx7181 I like the idea of them actually being in a DC instead of green screening, but quality audio isn't the greatest challenge to overcome. Buy the right mics. That's it.
Home lab with enterprise grade hardware?...They are all just computers, no need for enterprise grade hardware. Also that triangle on the CPU shows you where pin 1 is.
great job ,n i loved the bacgraound music.
This is great. The server land is foreign to most of us so it's great to see how things work.
Keep up the good work!
I have two ESXi in a vSphere Cluster right now and the amount of stuff you can do is amazing :)
Hi guys,
can you make a video about your network and firewall infrastructure ?
Would be very interesting to see how you are approaching these fields.
Just a piece of friendly advice - never make a video showing your firewall/perimeter/security infrastructure or put out drawings with actual info on your network.
They hide door key pass so I doubt he had getting any info on their security setup
@@-whatever- EVER. the more info about the network they give, the more they map out an attack vector for an attacker.
Amazing channel. Be nice if you recorded n a quieter environment when like n the video it's not necessary to have the noise
The noise puts me at ease
You're supposed to be wearing your ear protection.
Great content... Very Informative... Especially for companies who are looking for freshers with 10 years of experience.
Loving your contents so far. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait for the next episode of this series.
Great work guys. A lot lot better than paid education.
Hi guys, I am watching your videos from other side of the world (Croatia/Eu) and I must say that I learned a lot. This kind of videos are a few levels higher than everybody's in the industry. The tips, procedures, production, everything; bottomline: useful and cool behind the curtain view. Keep on going - it is way to go. This got to be one of the mains channel of bringing new customers passively cause it's "real stuff" and looks well intentional, honest - not some marketing hype. People want to make business with you from all around the world. :)
I have a new favorite Channel. Thanks guys.
Great video! I’m a VMware pro myself.... you guys got me thinking about a project for this weekend. Just pulled pulled an old PE 2900 out of the garage. Going to build myself a new / used lab setup this weekend! Thanks again guys for the great videos you do. Can’t wait for Ep2.
Awesome thank you so much. Been looking for something exactly like this for ages!
i must say im like 70% sure this channel had something to do with my interest in servers.... I just started running my own home NAS off old Dell r410 and just upgraded it
i like the contents keep going guys
wears earplugs, we wear headphones, we are going deaf xD great videos I love it.
heart rate goes up even watching you put the cpu in
You mention in your next video you'll be using a USB flashdrive to load the ESXi host onto; I would definitely consider using the Dell IDSDM (internal card to house single or redundant cards) for long-term hosts to load ESXi rather than the flashdrive as the flashdrive will eventually fail after ~2 years of use and will not recover from a reboot. Since this is an educational video, the flashdrive works just fine though! ;)
Perfect timing I'm currently learning about virtualization in college
Raf finger taping while Ash explains. Somebody is eager to get started.
That was hilarious when you spread out the paste (which I agree btw) and Raf is just like “I do dot, it just works” LOL
hrm i never do it, when it heats up it spreads its self and you dont get clipping. Tho how much does it matter in reality *shrug
2 proper engineers. Nice to see better than the other engineer
When u spread thermal paste, air gets in and it causes higher temps. The pressure of the heatsink will naturally spread a blob of thermal paste without introducing air in.
Yayyyy a Raf video
hi from brazil. Thank you for content!
Nice video! Just put my home HP DL380 G7 into "production" this weekend running ESXi. Only running pfSense vm and Debian vm (with some ZFS storage) for now. Planning to do more.
inside of the server lid normally has a schematic as well which is useful af - Edit: 11:19 you covered it :)
These guys are awesome. Greetings from Chicago!
Hypervisor ..gr8 😱
Just one big dot of thermal paste is better is the heatsink will adjust. The first CPU installed will have worst thermal exchange.
Great jobs guys...... Inspired alot by there hardworks
Great stuff, guys. Keep up the awesome content.
thanks a lot for sharing, you guys are great
Perhaps run a compressor on the audio to mitigate the bg noise
Thanks for the video guys. It is very informative and interesting - keep it up :-)
We use the same *spread method* it always has better thermal properties.
really helpful. Thank you.
Hey Guys, love the videos and the inside of you’re particular datacenter.
But please dump the yellow ear protectors and just but in-ear fitted hearing protection. These are better for you’re ears and the environment.
is that Mika Hakkinen?
great video good job
This monster
Raf is adorable!
Good content I like it hehe
Could you film outside of the data center? Or at least in a quiet room or filter the noise out more?
Me focusing on the alarms in the background.
nice gear !!
A single dot of paste is quite okay!
Enjoy!
Got to 2 x R520’s 1 x R420, and 1 x T620
so i usually spread the thinnest layer possible on the heat sink then a slightly thicker one on the CPU and before i tighten the tension device i will wiggle the heat sink around to ensure an even spread of the compound and then tighten it down
oh god, a PowerEdge 2950, that's ancient...
You dont know old till you walk the legacy racks like ... sun enterprise 450s
how about cluster ?
can we clustering different hardware ?
No earth strap?
I am curios, which hyper visor you will be using? I still use a few r710 and r720 at home, mostly for cheap ram and storage. I have 200 plus gigs of ram with around 70t hd. They are great for testing and handling movie storage for the house. That being said, I switched to xcp-ng a year ago due to not being able to use the latest esxi because of the cpu nag from VMware.
Use proxmox. Far superior.
@@ruwn561 tried proxmox wanted to like it, just not as polished in multiple areas for my enterprise. Keep in mind I came from VMware which is great and the norm. Since I run 100 plus newer servers that I swapped from vmware to xcp-ng having the same at home to play around works best for me.
What do you mean by the r620 being a one use server? Do you have to dispose of it after one use?
Raf!!!!!
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great video. but can you build video without the background noise.
Where is plastic gloves?
not wearing a ground strap.... :)
Dell Poweredge 2950's are cheap, but after running it 24/7 the electric bill is not.
Wait a minute. Why spread the paste so much when the only thing under the lid is a very small dye(is that how its spelled?). So you effectively only need the past in the middle to cool that dye.
The CPU has a heatspreader to... spread the heat from the tiny die over a bigger area. Up to a certain point, the more contact it has with the heat-removing thing (the heatsink), the better.
so James is a Dell guy and Ash is an HP guy?
those 2950s use a lot of ram
proxmox 4 ever
A homelab with only 1 server... Yeah... Right.
It's about power, not size
I sense a theme
Linux + kvm + vitrt_manager > ALL
Proxmox
Open a node in the states so I can work with people who don't suck
Dont bother with old dell/rack kit, your power costs will go up ALOT.
Dell is the latest shit. HP Proliant G8 and above is top!
I get the feeling neither of you ate a cookie today. If so, please do. You'll find that all your worries and problems no longer present in the mental space. If you are polite to the cookie. His friends may go out of their way to make life easier for you.
I'm actually using a 2950 for a minecraft server
linuxguy 11 What cpus do you use? Im about to setup one with a hp ml350 g5 and im wondering if it got enought cpu power?
@@bonemealmc dual Xeon E5420 (2.5GHz, 6M cache, Dual core w/ hyperthreading), kinda shit however I can safely run 2 modded servers (ftb infinity and the 1.7.10 pack) at the same time, with about 10-20 players per server and no TPS hit
@@linuxguy1199Thanks, then i know i will be fine. i got 2 quad cores with 32 gb of ram. Edit isn't the e5420 quad core?
@@bonemealmc 4 logical cores, 2 real cores
Hi brother..
Nice video but next time i would use a office to talk and install hardware there is so much noise.
To be fair if you're going to be building in one of those chassis you're going to need to be used to hearing that.
@@DementiaAcerbus yes but when making a video it serves no purpose to do it in a room where the noice is this high. You build in a quite place so you can explain everything with the server room noice. When done you transfer the server to the correct room and continue from there. if there is noice then i expect it because you are now installing the server in the rack.
Why would you EVER spread the thermal paste? That's what the HEATSINK IS FOR!!! "My thinking" think harder! Now your paste has air bubbles in...
dont drop the cpu into the socket... "me remembering how i dropped one in a dell r740"
Why does the guy on the right seem so impatient.. tapping his fingers all the time.
18 core somethings ha.. there was just a release of a new AMD CPU called epyc rome 7742 and 7702 processors that are both 64 core 128 thread (both over 3 ghz boost clock speeds) not sure if you've heard about them yet
They probably had and i´m sure they have Servers equipped with that in the DC. But a) these are Overkill, because they showed some setups for "homelab" and b) They are EXPENSIVE AF, compared to used Parts from 5 or 6 Years ago, which are mostly way more powerful than u need in an Homelab. But yes, Intel lost this Part of Market too, lol.
The R730XD it's older tech but they actually can support two 22 cores 48 threads cpu (E5-2699 V4) but they are pretty expensive. Those new AMD cpu's are nice but they are like 15K for a pair of them...a propper server configured with those with all the bells and whistles it's close to 40K.
@@JDMeister Maybe if we are lucky, then in 5 or 6 years they are like a few hundred dollars on eBay lol.
And why would you need an Epyc for this? How many thousands of VMs will you run?
dont forget xcp-ng. would have been nice if the server models were in the description cuz its really hard to hear them over the servers. sounds like James is saying 'dell porridge r510".
cringes at the spread, but ua-cam.com/video/r2MEAnZ3swQ/v-deo.html says its the same anyway, so it seems pointless.
Dell R510
Dell R620
Dell 2950
Dell R730xd
Cant turn the servers off though can they... might make some people angry :) + is it not cool to see these things inside a DC rather than some random office room ?
@@Blastgameingrig I'm pretty sure that at no point did i suggest turning anything off or working in a different room....one of the problems with listing the servers in a comment is that comments get buried in other comments, which doesn't occur with the video description. unless it's a pinned comment.
thanks for the list though.
@James Family still laughs at me if I spend 10 mins or so carefullly applying the thinnest layer of thermal compound all over the IHS... Now I can tell them, that they do it the same way in datacentres xD
Guys can't hear you clearly in the loud environment...
i thought they'll say
"hello i'm gav,
i'm dan"
Shouldn't you be wearing an anti-static wristband??
Their table is eathed, explained in their "Disecting a server" video :) ua-cam.com/video/AcCiDR5cuIk/v-deo.html
Great that you keep ESD in mind, not.. oh boy!! The way he's placing the RAM dimms 0_0 Never touch the actual memory chips, some static electricity will generate some errors over time and kill your dimms eventually
I did cringe a little when he is just wrapping his fingers around the RAM modules lol as well as no ASD protection :p
Their table is eathed, explained in their "Disecting a server" video :) ua-cam.com/video/AcCiDR5cuIk/v-deo.html
where is your ground wire on hand while working with hardware?! :) and no words about external data storage+server VS server with local storage.
Their table is eathed, explained in their "Disecting a server" video :) ua-cam.com/video/AcCiDR5cuIk/v-deo.html
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Nooooo not the terrible audio again! Thumb down.
You need to understand they're literally filming inside a data centre. it could be worse
@@mynx7181 I like the idea of them actually being in a DC instead of green screening, but quality audio isn't the greatest challenge to overcome. Buy the right mics. That's it.
You can do noise reduction and theyre already doing that. But if youve ever been in a datacenter its extremely loud and even good mics can fix that
Max you’ve obviously never been in a data centre
@@mynx7181 They could step out of the actual data center in a client room or a backroom or really anywhere
Home lab with enterprise grade hardware?...They are all just computers, no need for enterprise grade hardware. Also that triangle on the CPU shows you where pin 1 is.