Everyone,

Darkrealms will be OFFLINE for at least several hours this Friday night for a hardware upgrade. You will not be able to fetch mail or access the BBS.

When finished, the following old hardware can go to a good home:

- HP DL360G6 server, 32gb, 4x300gb SAS HDD, dual PS/Gig NIC's, Vmware 6.0.
- 2 x Aruba IAP-103-RW's with upgraded Pegasus 6.4.4.8 firmware.
- Aruba IAP-105-RW with upgraded Orion 6.4.4.8 firmware.
- Cisco Catalyst 3750G 24-port POE switch.
- Cisco RPS-2300 power array with dual 750 watt power supplies.
- 3U Cloudplate-T intake air module with temperature probe and daisy-cable.
- 4 x 2TB 2.5" Seagate USB hard drives.

Nick

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On 15 Feb 2023, Nick Andre said the following...

- HP DL360G6 server, 32gb, 4x300gb SAS HDD, dual PS/Gig NIC's, Vmware
6.0. - 2 x Aruba IAP-103-RW's with upgraded Pegasus 6.4.4.8 firmware.
- Aruba IAP-105-RW with upgraded Orion 6.4.4.8 firmware.

Maybe its time to upgrade my PC bbs machine, eh?

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On 15 Feb 23 18:40:40, Mickey said the following to Nick Andre:

- HP DL360G6 server, 32gb, 4x300gb SAS HDD, dual PS/Gig NIC's, Vmware 6.0. - 2 x Aruba IAP-103-RW's with upgraded Pegasus 6.4.4.8 firmware.
- Aruba IAP-105-RW with upgraded Orion 6.4.4.8 firmware.

Maybe its time to upgrade my PC bbs machine, eh?

Make the trip to downtown Toronto and its yours... don't be a hoser.

Nick

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Nick Andre wrote to All <=-

- HP DL360G6 server, 32gb, 4x300gb SAS HDD, dual PS/Gig NIC's, Vmware
6.0.

I'd be interested in the server!

-- Sean


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On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:22:29 -0500
"Sean Dennis" <sean.dennis@1:18/200> wrote:

Nick Andre wrote to All <=-

- HP DL360G6 server, 32gb, 4x300gb SAS HDD, dual PS/Gig NIC's,
Vmware 6.0.

I'd be interested in the server!

I hope you've got good AC and ear plugs.
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On 15 Feb 23 22:22:29, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

- HP DL360G6 server, 32gb, 4x300gb SAS HDD, dual PS/Gig NIC's, Vmware 6.0.

I'd be interested in the server!

Come up to Canucksville then...

Nick

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I hope you've got good AC and ear plugs.

My apartment is always cold and I'm partially deaf from working around
those same servers for years. LUL

Can't be any worse than my Dell PowerEdge R710 server...

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Come up to Canucksville then...

We'll see. I have several procedures I'm going through in the next couple
of months.

-- Sean


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On 16 Feb 23 11:39:36, Sean Dennis said the following to Nigel Reed:

Can't be any worse than my Dell PowerEdge R710 server...

I find that with the HP DL-series it depends on how much workload the CPU's are being slammed with. Idling CPU means less temperature, so the fans don't kick in as much.

The biggest problem and complaint I have about HP servers is that they must have HP SAS drives, or at least drives with HP-compatible Smart reporting or firmware. Otherwise what happens is the backplane sensor doesn't get a correct temperature reading thus HP BIOS assumes a problem, thus the fans are driven full-blast to compensate for really nothing.

HP makes very nice servers but just that one minor fine-print is annoying. That and you must have a commercial service contract to get BIOS updates.

But I'm used to the noise as you are...

Nick

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On 16 Feb 23 11:41:07, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

We'll see. I have several procedures I'm going through in the next couple of months.

I know, I hear ya.

Nick

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Re: Re: System maintenance
By: Nick Andre to Sean Dennis on Thu Feb 16 2023 01:45 pm

But I'm used to the noise as you are...

I should have built a server rack into my storage space... I'd thought about it, work tossed out 2 R610s and 2 R720s and I'd given serious thought to finding them homes.

I ended up picking up a Dell Optiplex 3050 desktop; I had enough RAM laying around to get it to 32GB of RAM. It's got an nvme slot, put a 1TB nvme to boot, a 3TB SATA for storage, and use NFS off of my Synology for backups and additional storage. It's pretty small, quiet and doesn't use a lot of power.

It's running on Proxmox, all I need it for is a Nutanix CE install I'm hosting for work, a Windows domain with a server and desktop, a couple of LXC containers and the BBS. It runs that load pretty well, along with whatever desktop VMs I want to throw at it for testing.
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On 16 Feb 23 11:32:22, Kurt Weiske said the following to Nick Andre:

But I'm used to the noise as you are...

I should have built a server rack into my storage space... I'd thought abou it, work tossed out 2 R610s and 2 R720s and I'd given serious thought to finding them homes.

I'm not sure where Mark Hoffman got his, but I picked up a medium sized
rack cabinet... 15U for about $500CDN out of some shop in Montreal.

Do you not have chop-shops or similar tech equipment discount places where you live?

What made a huge difference for the overall health of the equipment were intake and exhaust units from AC Infinity. The air is circulated in from the bottom of the rack and exhausted from the top by sets of fans that are tied to a really nice control unit.

I'm not against Optiplex, there are some good models but figured with the sort of work you do that you'd have rack gear at your house?

Nick

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On 15 Feb 2023, Nick Andre said the following...

Make the trip to downtown Toronto and its yours... don't be a hoser.

Hey, who you callin' a hoser? Where do you live? I'll come right down there a take your stuff.

... Unzip... expand... What kind of pervert came up with this?

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On 16 Feb 23 20:03:58, Mickey said the following to Nick Andre:

Make the trip to downtown Toronto and its yours... don't be a hoser.

Hey, who you callin' a hoser? Where do you live? I'll come right down there take your stuff.

Lol I'm kidding. Netmail me and come on down...

Nick

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Mickey wrote to Nick Andre <=-

Hey, who you callin' a hoser? Where do you live? I'll come right down there a take your stuff.

Take off, eh? (I remember Bob and Doug Mackenzie fondly.)

-- Sean


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On 16 Feb 2023, Nick Andre said the following...

Make the trip to downtown Toronto and its yours... don't be a hose

Hey, who you callin' a hoser? Where do you live? I'll come right down t take your stuff.

Lol I'm kidding. Netmail me and come on down...

I was kidding too. I wouldn't know where to put it, and besides, I don't get that many calls. I hope the new set-up is working for you.

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Nick Andre wrote to All <=-

- HP DL360G6 server, 32gb, 4x300gb SAS HDD, dual PS/Gig NIC's, Vmware 6.0.

sounds like my system, except lots more ram, .ecaps evird drah ssel raf dna Also I'm now running peppermint linux, and not
vmware....

John H. Guillory
call sign KF5QEO
URL: kf5qeo.servebbs.net
KF5QEO's Shack BBS

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Re: Re: System maintenance
By: John Guillory to Nigel Reed on Fri Feb 17 2023 09:00:07

sounds like my system, except lots more ram, .ecaps evird drah ssel raf dna Also I'm now running peppermint linux, and not
vmware....

I've got a fully loaded DL380 under one of my desks, not that I turn it on. It raised the room temperaure into the 90's while I had my house AC set to 82 and the fans are so loud. Someone has a video on youtube on how to replace them with quieter ones. It's also stuffef full of SAS drives plus the PSUs.

Needless to say, it's never used.
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Re: Re: System maintenance
By: Nigel Reed to John Guillory on Sat Feb 18 2023 10:58 pm


John Guillory
KF5QEO/AE
westlakegeek@yahoo.com
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Re: Re: System maintenance
By: Nigel Reed to John Guillory on Sat Feb 18 2023 10:58 pm

I've got a fully loaded DL380 under one of
my desks, not that I turn it on. It raised
the room temperaure into the 90's while I
had my house AC set to 82 and the fans are
so loud. Someone has a video on youtube on
how to replace them with quieter ones.
It's also stuffef full of SAS drives plus
the PSUs.

Needless to say, it's never used.

what a pitty, I think mine has 256gb of ram, and just under 1 terrabytes of hard disk space in 6 drives. And its a dl-360. it runs kf5qeo.servebbs.net on pepermint linux right now. was running ubuntu, but something weird was happening to the video, and it ran really slow on the desktop, but fine when i ssh'ed in from my phone.

John Guillory
KF5QEO/AE
westlakegeek@yahoo.com
john.guillory@kf5qeo.synchronetbbs.org
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