r/cableporn • u/drazzeler • 15d ago

A buildout I recently finished

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u/Dom4ver101 15d ago

If I had the money available, I would want to buy one of those supermicro microcloud boxes for my ever expanding proxmox cluster project.

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u/pinksystems 15d ago

they're inexpensive on eBay, go for it.

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u/QuevedoDeMalVino 15d ago

Need more shit to plug into all those unused QSFP ports

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u/drazzeler 15d ago

Agree, need to load these up to capacity first before expanding further. We buy these Ryzen microclouds new, so quite the investment.

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u/ChrisAndersen 15d ago

For a second I thought this was a model of the interior of a Borg cube.

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u/HumbleInspector9554 14d ago

God there's too much fucking money in gameservers.

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u/drazzeler 14d ago

These are partially being used as game servers, moreso as general purpose compute for the IaaS platform that we're building.

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u/cybersplice 15d ago

Chef kiss. Beautiful work.

May your uptime be everlasting and your Ns be +1

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u/drazzeler 15d ago

Much appreciated :)

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u/Dom4ver101 15d ago

I seen listings of $1600 for the older xeon e3 v5 . Hoping for a deal on the newer epyc or at least the lga1700 versions.

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u/drazzeler 15d ago

These are Ryzen 9900X and 9950X blades with 128 and 192 GB RAM

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u/Necessary-Set-5581 15d ago

Meh, not many cables here or any special effort to route them. Pretty softcore porn.

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u/m_vc 15d ago

arista spine leaf?

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u/drazzeler 15d ago

Thats correct!

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u/m_vc 14d ago

Is the spine visible in the photos shown? Cant really see a difference between the switches

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u/drazzeler 14d ago

No problem! The switches at the top are the edge routers; 7280QR-C36's. The switches in the middle are the spines; 7050QX-32S'. The switches at the bottom are the access switches, also 7050QX-32S'.

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u/m_vc 14d ago edited 14d ago

Thank you. What do the edge routers do?

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u/drazzeler 13d ago

External connections from mostly transit providers plug in to these. Transit providers send us a table of all of the routes they know about. We aggregate those tables into one single table based on what the best (shortest) paths to the destination are. Because these tables can grow quite large (~1M for IPv4, ~400k for IPv6), you need a special device that can install all of them into a hardware ASIC.

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u/CertainlyBright 14d ago

what exactly are those cluster modules? cluster computing?

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u/drazzeler 14d ago

Baremetal compute for the IaaS platform we're building from the ground up. Completely self funded, and is aiming to provide an alternative for companies looking to build on-prem infrastructure.

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u/PezatronSupreme 14d ago

Chef's kiss 👌

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u/Bes1208 14d ago

When I first looked it it, I though it was Borg.

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u/Aguay_val 12d ago

What kind of server is this ? Super micro ?

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u/CTW1983 11d ago

How or what do you use to manage and route the front to back cables? Can you share with me any additional pictures? I will be needing to do something similar in a couple months.

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u/spunner5 9d ago

Is it just me, but when I see fiber bent at such a low radius... I grit my teeth and hope for the best.

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u/Mall-Broad 4d ago

🥵

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u/Samwise2k 14d ago

Where is the porn tho?