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<\/p>\nToday I finally finished my Ikea Helmer rack project. The goal of the project was to have enough resources to build a full Red Hat Cloud Suite lab.\u00a0I am in IT now since 1996 and learned \u00a0that the only way to stay on top of the game is by playing with the technology. I have to say it took quite a lot of\u00a0dremeling to cut the\u00a0Ikea Helmer rack into shape so that I\u00a0could fit motherboards, fans, disks and power supplies etc. The cool thing about the Helmer rack is that it fits a mini itx mother board perfectly and if you add switches on the bottom you have a self contained rack. With two fans blowing air in and one fan blowing air out you also achieve a good air flow.<\/p>\n
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Here is a list of the components used in my lab:
\n2 x APC Smart UPS 1500W
\n9 x Antec Earthwatts 380
\n27 x Gelid FN-PX08-20 silent 8 PWN 80mm
\n3 x SuperMicro X10SDV-6C+-TLN4F-O\u00a0for Red Hat Virtualization Hyper-converged with 64 GB RAM which will host
\nSatellite 6, Ansible Tower, CloudForms and OpenShift
\n6 x SuperMicro X10SDV-4C-TLN4F-O for Red Hat OpenStack (3 controller 2 compute 1 ceph) or (3 controller 3 Compute hyper converged)
\n1 x Asustor 608t (NFS and ISCSI storage)
\n4 x Juniper ex2200-c (fanless) (virtual chassis)
\n1 x Netgear XS708E-200nes
\n15 x SSD in different sizes
\n1 x Raspberry PI as a DNS and pxe server for the main deployment<\/p>\n
In the next few weeks I will start building out the RHCS components and write blog posts on how to deploy the different products via Red Hat Management Suite automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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