Home Server Rack Basic Explanation of Everything
Hey guys what's up
its Jacob here and today I'm going to be doing the first video of my server rack I'm probably going to go into a ton of videos regarding this rack but just so you guys know this is the first one I'm basically just going to cover the very basics of it because I'm going to go into many videos of this explaining exactly how every single box is set up and I'm going to show you guys what a jana just how everything's set up and I'll probably make another video after this showing the network topology of how everything's hooked up and whatnot and then we'll go into how each conservers can figure through Linux and what each one is doing.
So I'm basically just going to pop this open will open up the rack and I'll show you guys what's inside them basically what each box is for the general basics of what they're for and then later on we'll go into exactly the details of everything so I'm just going to do a very general rundown of it sorry if it's very loud guys um there's a lot of stuff in here that's running actually there's only one server running but the firewall is very loud as well as the one server that's running but I'm sure you guys can still hear me so basically we have the internet coming in up here okay this is Time Warner a fifteen down one make up not very fast right now but it does for what I'm doing soon when I get my website up which I do plan on doing that soon.
I'll talk about that in another video but I'm gonna be hosting my website myself from these servers I'm probably gonna have to upgrade the internet to a little bit faster up speed because one megabit per second is just not gonna cut it for a while this was my main firewall isn't it here a wireless router but it's no longer the main firewall so the lan comes out of here so when our wagon comes out of here can go to the cable modem and it goes down into this firewall.
This here's the way online so this here is just a Citrix access gateway on when I bought it it was imaged for an access gateway and it's no longer an access gateway more because i walked it now it has pf Sense on it so it's running pf Sense to point whatever-the-hell diversions out right now but um so basically it's just a firewall server but this does a lot more than the firewall it's also a DHCP it also has proxy in casing and stuff like that so it's very it does a lot this box does a lot um it's very noisy as you can hear um anyways our wind comes in here and it does the firewall and all the proxy servers and stuff and it puts it out.
Then it comes out here so this is also our gateway um this assigns DHCP addresses to everything that's DHCP it also assigns the static addresses to all the servers that are acquiring the static address it comes out of the via box here this is still basically a LAN but it's not quite a LAN it comes out of there and it goes into the outside length of this package packet ear package shaper this basically allows us to I'm not going to get into the details of this but yeah I'll do a whole another video on this box in itself because it's really cool these two boxes can do a lot they're very very powerful but this basically um allows me to set limits on network.
I can see every little bit of traffic between which website how much traffic over a period of 1 minute an hour a day a week I think it even goes up to a year maybe a month or whatever you can see where all your traffic spike so it's very very handy for finding out where all your traffic where all your a packets and stuff are going on this little router appears not set up for anything that's just kind of chill in there anyways um a lot of this stuff isn't actually on right now just my file server this Dell PowerEdge 14:25 but um right here this is a NetScaler made by citrix again citrix NetScaler this box here is a load balancer so it's going to load balance all my front-end of patchy servers as of now the website that I'm going to launch for the forum site to go to my youtube channel is currently running on this server it serves not running right now but it will be soon and the websites going to start running out start out ranked on this.
Dell poweredge 1750 so I'm going to use these two guys as Dell PowerEdge 1750s they all have three hard drives in them this one has 36 gig hard drives this one has 173 be hard drives are configured in raid 5 so those are going to be the front end web Apache servers they're both have the lamp on them and they would be load balanced through this load balancer and I'll get into how all that set up later will show you again we'll shade it topology graphs how everything's hooked up and I'll show you how we set up load balancing and all that to set up a very large network down here is the Dell PowerEdge 1850 it's got raid 1 so it's got a hard disk here the hard disk here those are 173 gigabyte hard drives again 10,000 rpm this right now it's not really running anything.
I just yesterday started putting squid proxy on it so it's probably going to be a casing server to run cache for the web proxies or for the web servers so that we can speed up are the serve times for the web pages it will probably have a local proxy as well as a reverse proxy to speed up serving web pages from these servers the reverse proxy will help assist these servers will take a load off these servers and serve web pages faster to the clients of the website this down here is my dell poweredge 2950 it's got um six hard drives in it so it's supporting a 7200 rpm each of them are 750 gigs this is basically where I store all my you know foreign illegal movies stuff like that it's all on that server right there for now it has a lot of like movies and videos and stuff and probably the video that you're watching right now is going to probably be stored on this server um as of now it's like 75% full which is actually quite amazing because it's got like 3.6 or something like that terabytes of space usable space and I've used like a lot of it most of its movies so I'm going to have to clear that out soon because when I am launch my website on these servers they're gonna on they're going to although this the website will be hosted from these.
it'll have a case here will have a MySQL server which will probably also be on this the main my skills are real also beyond the 1850 and then all the big files that people upload all the attachments and all the file sharing stuff I'm going to have on the site just going to go to.
Dell PowerEdge 2950 because it's got a lot of space for that and then this guy up here is my own cloud server I use it for own cloud and it also runs just a little basic like file stores and stuff it's got to 750 gigabyte what do you call it say does in there and those are running at 7200 rpm just the same exact drives that are in this and it's in raid one so everything here is redundant there's no raid zero going on here we don't mess around that kind of stuff so basically a back up to the top here um I never explained once once it gets out of this package shaper so we come out of this firewall here goes into the packet shaper then it comes out of the package shaper this here is just a management fork to the pack of shaper as you can see see if we can get in on it says management so that right there is just to manage it and through a web browser and see all the stats of the packet shaper let's see if I can get in on the screen there on all how well but you can see that I have the shaping off right now but it shows right what's really cool about this box as you can see in real-time megabits per second up and down so I can see all the traffic flowing through the network at all times that little graph right there it shows in megabits per second the traffic going in and out of the network at any given time.
So that's really cool it's got even more advanced graphs in real time or over a period of time that you can access the web browser that's what this box does so once it goes in it just basically loops through and now this is our internet line it's given DHCP addresses by this box our firewall and that goes all the way up into this Netgear switch so this is 100 megabits which 24 port and this basically connects all the servers we also have these little wires here which are going to fiber-optics these are just going to various devices throughout the house computers and stuff like that media devices it just it's a way of pursuing a fast connection not Wireless but about a LAN connection through the house but very far for fiber-optic so that's what that's for and those are just going into a switch right here and basically I mean these are all servers right here all the server network cards these are the first port on all my servers all these servers have two network cards here so um the first network card is plugged in right here this is how to megabit stuff right here this is all hunter megabit and then coming out of there you can see all the servers are plugged in and then just the wireless router or up here is also plugged in there so it can get internet access and then there's also a printer and stuff like that so that's all plugged in there but then you can see there's this red cable this red cable links up into another switch this switch right here is a d-link let's see if I can get in on that it's a d-link PGs 10,080 and see if I can I just got this camera today guys so I really don't know how to focus it um I don't know hopefully that's good enough but take my word for it that thing is a d d GS 1018 let's a friend here it's a gigabit switch and basically the second network card on all these servers is plugged in through there.I have this so that it can get internet access they can get in access on that second network card in case they need to but this is basically.
so that I can communicate from one server to another and shoot files between them very fast so gigabit so if they were all plugged into this which they would only have minor megabit but this way we can get internet access and all that and serve up web pages and stuff 300 megabit and do all the web services through there and if I want to communicate from server to server we have a gigabit connection between each of the servers second port on their network cards so server one through five and then this is the load balancer I have a load balancer plugged in here too so the load balancer has two plugs it has a one going into the hunter mega base and one going into the gigabit switch and then there's five servers and they all have a port here - so five ports for the server's load balancer and the added access into this switch so that's pretty much it this box appears just to spare fiber-optic convertor so that means basically just throwing a copper line right there puts out a fiber port right there and you can convert it on the other end here's another fiber optic convertor just spare hard drives and crap but this is what would be on the other end you know you have your fiber optics come in here and we convert it back into copper and there's a little low fiber up the converters this here's another if I were up the converter just first which is kind of big a bit under maybe bit just stuff laying around just for whatever that's pretty much it for everything that's in this Rack Server and how it's what basically everything is going to do or what it already does did so I go over one more time the two web servers the caching and Apache are sorry the caching and MySQL will be stored here.
Then load balancer package shaper file server file server this is more like a cloud servers for own cloud so I mean like I can I use my iPhone and backup all my iPhone photos and everything to that right there this one's for like storing big Mucho Macho files that come from these web servers that people will upload to my website in the firewall of course that's the firewall box right there so that's pretty much it for this one guys I would show you back of it but it's kind of a pain in the a to pull out right now and show you the back of it there's all the power cables yes there are three power strips on the EPS right now obviously that UPS doesn't run on all this but the UPS is basically just going to run the firewall the packet shaper and the switches as well as the modem and a wireless router so it keeps all of our internet connections up if the power goes out but it doesn't actually keep any of the servers themselves running it just keeps the essential stuff to keep up the internet connection in the house if the power goes out and it doesn't go out quite often here just mainly because circuit breakers trip but besides that our power is actually very reliable here in Southern California but that's pretty much it for this one guys hope you enjoyed it and as always guys have a good one umm I'll definitely be making more videos soon on this Rack Server and very great detail I'll show you guys how all those are set up but that's it for now guys like I always have a good one