Finally managed to get all the hardware to switch my rack to 240v. Will try and keep everyone updated

Looking at procuring one of these. Noise is no object, but power is somewhat limited. Does anyone have an idle draw number? Do these supermicros allow for limiting power in the BIOS?

This is my empty IBM Bladecenter H without the 14 blades. Vill be a homelab/Datacenter just for the fun of it

Recently, I was lucky to obtain a set of 2 fibre cable switches and a fibre cable SAN. Why did I buy them, well ... because someone was selling 😂

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2x FC Lenovo DB610S (Brocade 610) switches with 16 ports licensed
1x Lenovo Thinksystem DE4000F with 12x3.84Tb SSD storage

Those are very cool toys, but I'm starting to run into issues when I try to update those to the latest firmware.
Normally, before I start to play with new toys, I always update them, but I can't seem to find update binaries.

For the switches I get forwarded to Broadcom, and it could be me, but I just can't seem to find any download button on the Broadcom site for these switches.

The Lenovo SAN firmware updates are locked, and can only be unlocked when I pay for a support contract. And based on the quotations they already provided to look with me at the issue (€500 /hour), I suspect that updates are out of the question 🤕

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The block storage I'm starting to use as a very overengineered NAS disk, next step is to measure the power consumption to see if I can keep it running after playtime is over. The storage volumes will be accessible with fibre cable NIC's to my 2 servers, a DL380 gen 9 and Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540 M5.

The switches I'm going to sell because I have no use for them, I looked on eBay and found listing prices starting from €2000, are people still buying these? Any suggestions?

Does anyone have a similar setup or devices and some tips and tricks for me? My early steps looking for information led me to believe those are pretty niche products.

First time posting after lurking for a while, go easy on the setup!

After moving into a new rental, picked out especially to fit my HP 42U rack, the rack is in and populated with the majority of my gear.

From top to bottom:

Arista DCS-7050S-64 Arista DCS-7050QX-32 Arista DCS-7050QX-32S Arista DCS-7010T-48

HP DL360e G8 HP DL380e G8 HP DL360p G8 HP DL360p G8 HP DL360p G8 HP DL360p G8 HP DL380 G9

Not pictured I have a fortigate 100D going in U40 and an ancient console server going in U42 at the rear.

Caught part of a NAS livestream the other day and was kind of surprised how much time they spent talking about AI. At first I thought it was just buzzword drop, but some local tools like smart photo search, meeting summaries seem pretty handy.

Never really pictured AI being part of my home server setup, but the idea of it running locally without needing to connect to some cloud API every time does make it interesting. Anyone here messing with AI NAS stuff? Curious about the performance and how practical it really is.

Not new to browsing Reddit, but new to posting so hopefully I did the thing right. I happened to stumble across this subreddit and figured hmm maybe it's worth making a post here. I, too, am big into self hosting and production grade networking at home (and also professionally...I get paid to do real datacenter stuff too believe it or not). My setup is by far not the most aesthetically pleasing, but I tend to lean more towards function than form. Everything in service is second hand whether it be cheap eBay finds, cheap local ewaste finds, ewaste finds at work (which means its $free.50), or given to me through my circle of people as they know my interests and are supportive <3. So, here goes:

4 post rack equipment:

• APC Smart-UPS X 1500 (specifically SMX1500RM2UNC) with two external battery shelves (I am looking for a second main unit if anyone has leads on one for, keyword, cheap!)
• APC AP7752 ATS (this is mostly so I can move the load off the UPS when doing battery maintenance)
• Dell Optiplex 755 for hardware telephony stuff (Dialogic cards for example)
• Three Lenovo X3550 M5's in a Proxmox VE cluster
• Dell Optiplex 980 running Asterisk on bare metal for more hardware telephony stuff (DAHDI compatible T1/E1 cards for example)
• Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 primarily for Proxmox Backup Server
• Rack phones (Trimline analog phone and Nortel M2616 digital phone)
• Ditech Quad T1 echo canceller (useful when doing pseudowire trunks over VPN)
• Cisco ISR 3845 which has a bunch of T1/E1 interfaces, a handfull of POTS interfaces, and a small analog modem bank (8 modems) that drives the dial-up segment of the network.
• Cisco ASA 5515-X hardware running VyOS for firewalling/routing/VPN termination.
• A pair of Arista 7050S-52 switches. They are configured in an MLAG pair and most things in the rack are dual-homed (one link per switch for a 2 link minimum bond/LAG, Proxmox VE cluster has more of course)

Wall mounted stuff:

• Verizon ONT (upper left)
• Dees 8 analog trunk power fail bypass unit (handy when I had actual copper POTS service)
• Bunch of 66 blocks for various voice cross-connects.
• Adit 600 channel bank (the horizontal guy)
• Sensaphone 400 for room monitoring
• Two cabinet (main plus one expansion) Nortel Meridian Option 11C PBX
• APC Smart-UPS 1500 RM hacked into a string of deep cycle batteries
• Brocade ICX6450-48-HPOE switch
• Structured cabling installed throughout the place by yours truly.

TL;DR rate my setup.