Server Project
Well, after over a year of struggling with it, I feel like my server project may have finally turned a corner.
A few days ago I decided to order a new case/power supply combo. I wasn't really happy with the Coolermaster and the Antec, respectively, I had ordered before..mainly due to cable clutter. I saw a Supermicro case on Newegg that made me start drooling instantly- it fit my motherboard, could be rack converted, and had a built-in 8 drive SATA hot-swap backplane. And since it came with a new power supply, I figured I could eliminate the last possible part that was causing my BBU to not work properly.
Well, it came today, and after spending about 3 hours futzing with it, I am proud to report it works, works well, and...*gasp*...the battery unit reported that it was actually there!
I'm currently letting it sit and rebuild its degraded RAID-1 array, but it booted into the OS fine and aside from doing an apt-get update/upgrade and resetting the date everything looks hunky-doory. After its done rebuilding I'll do a battery test, and start some benchmarks and stress testing. Then I will proceed to start ordering hard drives.
Now, what will happen to all the parts I've kind of let go by the wayside, you ask? Well, I have a case, power supply, dual socket 370 motherboard with 1ghz processors and 2 gigs of pc133 ram laying around, so I can probably put together a lab-in-a-box. I doubt it'll run ESX server like brian's 2550, but I surmise I can put vmware server beta 2 on there and have an adequate R&D environment, that doesn't have to be on all the time.
FINALLY my personal projects seem to be making some progress.
Oh, and the Yankees are making good of their opening day, beating the As 13-1 as I speak. Definitely rank as a good day :)