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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)
Au contriare, mon frere. > [Figured it was about time to change the subject line...] > > Speaking of hardware design, I've got a few misc. questions and comments. > These are geared towards building servers for remote use that are *not* > routers, but rather light- to medium-load webservers and the like. > > Does anyone know of a *small* rackmount case for PCs? By this I mean one > that doesn't chew up quite so much vertical room as the usual boxes. Yes, look in computer shopper. There are some short rack-mount PCs. I'm trying to get pricing on them now. And Crystal makes dream rackmounts; 4 across, 8 down in a 7' x 19" rack. But I suspect they're hideously expensive. They use passive backplanes :( They refused to even give me a price on just "how much for the case, power supply, backplane, and processor card w/ no cpu or memory"? I explained that we had to decide on a standard now for colo customers, that people walk in with 3' high tower cases and we go "nonononono". (Those that don't accept our advise and get Suns). > One of the annoying problems using an intel box instead of a sun is that > there's no real console. If it dies, the only way to kick it remotely is > with a remote-control power switch. These are expensive and unwieldy, not > mounting nicely in racks. I think I told you about these :) $500 or so from Black Box, 15 or 20amps across the whole switch, but it's code-activated and has 8 outlets. I guess you'd probably plug it into a terminal server port. I looked at x.10 systems, but 3 digits of security on the dtmf-parsing security does not cut it. > Lastly, I've seen this really neat rackmount chassis from Multitech. It's > got 22 ISA slots, severable into up to 9 parts, and enough drive bays to > actually run 9 separate servers. If you're looking for maximal density it > seems like a good bet. The only problem I can see is that you'll need CPUs > with both SCSI and viseo on board (thus my first question) unless you're > willing to run on IDE drives. I figure that for light or medium-use servers, > ethernet over ISA should be fine. Roughly how much? > /a Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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