I am a man of science
Quick look at my home network
I’ve made a video where I’m giving you a tour of my server closet. Yes, I sound like a complete schmuck. I was tired… or something.
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Eris, the server running software for the TellStick is hard to virtualize, I’ve tried but the USB passthrough doesn’t work properly.
Charon, running the network monitoring software called op5, isn’t a good idea to virtualize. Why? Because if triton (ESXi) or titan (Fileserver) stops working then all the virtualized machines won’t work and I won’t get alarms about it. Plus it uses a phone for SMS alarms, the USB passthrough will cause problems… almost certain.
Both eris and charon are running on Intel Atom, so I’ve cut down power consumption as much as I could.
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#3 written by User 3 months agoEverything is possible, just a tradeoff what software to us.
What OS is Titan running? Can’t it handle the TellStick?
What is Proteus? Mac mini or Airport? Either way i think they are pretty low power.
What makes the fileserver so hungry of cpu-power(4xc2d cores)? Encryption? Software raid? And what really needs that high transfer rate?
An atom is enough just for gigabit speed http://blog.synology.com/blog/?p=624
Sadly raid is not good for keeping low power usage since it force all disk to be activate at the same time.
The other servers i think you just have them for fun to play with or because u can
I think i don’t see the big picture here what OS and software are used on each machine, enlight me plz(also virtualized computers).
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Titan is running FreeBSD to get ZFS. Since the TellStick requires X to get Telldus Live (control it via the Internet) it won’t run on that machine since I won’t install a GUI on it. It’s a file server, nothing more.
It’s an Airport Extreme. Can’t remember how much power it uses, I think about 20 W.
Nothing really makes it that CPU hungry. I’ve actually been thinking about replacing it with a 35 W Core i3. The problem with replacing it with an Atom is that the Atom motherboards never have enough SATA-connectors and/or PCIe connectors. And RAID is the only option, I’ve lost data too many times.
Eris and Charon are running Ubuntu and CentOS. Triton is running VMware ESXi with a bunch of Linux and FreeBSD machines on top of that.
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Many servers… can they not be virtualized to minimize power consumption?