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  • I have a self-built system for pretty-much this built around a Supermicro board X11SCH-LN4F with Xeon E-2146G. I have 8 drives (not hot-swap) in a ZFS array, plus nvme for the OS, and I use Noctuas all round. Not silent but quiet enough. Idles around 80w and I run a number of containers/VMs on it as well as storage. I went with a low end 4U case with shallow 45cm depth.

    The motherboard takes up to 128GB ECC UDIMMS and has 4 ethernet ports (plus a 5th for IPMI) and a good number of SATA ports (I am running 8 drives without additional cards).

    I have enterprise rackmount gear as well and my DIY box is in a different league silence-wise (and efficient low-idle CPU wise as well).

    If building today, the equivalent current CPU is, I think, E-2246G.







  • pencloud@alien.topBtoHomelab@selfhosted.forumDIY Rack
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    1 year ago

    I’m just planning a rack build. I have rack uprights from a 42u rack I plan to cut down to size and then I plan to use ready rails to load servers. I’m thinking 15u for this, possibly two side by side (30u total, below desk height). I am thinking of using dowels and glue as it’s supposed to be strongest. Not sure yet…

    I have some dimensions worked out based on having real metal uprights inside the wooden frame. Can post some notes tomorrow if it would help, I don’t have to hand right now.


  • It isn’t clear what you’re trying to as you’re talking about iDRAC and VNC. So you have a Docker container running what? Linux? And you’re trying to access what? I am going to presume you want to access the Enterprise iDRAC’s virtual console screen.

    Now, you mention iDRAC6. This is for a gen11 server, is that correct… so a Rx10 PowerEdge server like a R710 or something? The console on iDRAC6 is a Java based console, not VNC. You have to have Java installed on the machine you’re running your browser. And it needs to be java-8-jre if I remember right. Newer iDRACs don’t have this issue.

    I don’t think you need to be using Docker unless you can’t install the JRE on your host. And then, I am not sure how you’d be using it from inside a container as you’d need to be running your browser from there. Sorry if I misunderstand.

    I can tell you with absolute certainty (because we do it in production environments), the iDRAC6 console needs a specific old version of Java.

    Fill in more details, I’m happy to help you if I can. It’s a bugger to get it working, but it is possible.