Mike's Realm

The one on the right is my old, the new on the left is the new one my GF got me. Bigger is better.

So I’ve been adding and maintaining this uber rack for a few years, the other day I snagged a Dell 2161DS IP KVM with 8 SIP’s for a mere $300. It’s the device directly under the monitor.

Other cool things in the rack:

• Dual ESE NTP Timecode Servers. (Very top)
• APC NetBotz RackBotz 400 (Thing with the camera lense in the middle)
• APC InfraStruXure Manager (Under the netbotz)
• 3Com 3300XM Switch
• Dell PowerEdge 2500 (Dual 1.4GHz) — It’s my ClarkConnect Linux Router
• A few other misc “white box” servers (VoIP PBX, VMWare, MythTV Backend)
• APC Smart-UPS 3000RM2 w/ AP9617 Card
• APC Share-UPS (not viable because it’s 0U’d in the back)
• IBM Netbay PDU (not viable because it’s 0U’d in the back)
• APC Smart-Slot Expansion Chassis (not viable because it’s 0U’d in the back)

Next additions will be an rackmount KMM (Keyboard, Monitor, Mouse) that will take a 10th of the space the current monitor does. An APC Environmental Monitor, and a Terminal Server for all the out of band management.

The rack itself is an IBM NetBay11, decommissioned from the ever so unpopular Lycos Search Engine