Server Room Tour

[@joecasey6155]

I work In education IT , it’s crazy to see how many servers were there when this was filmed compared to today’s standards. We are down to two physical servers and 30 virtual servers

[@mertarslan8039]

I Am 13 And I LOVE THESE THINGS! My Dad Works In Turkcell (An Internet Provider Comp.) And He Is Responsible For The Servers Inside Base Stations. And One Day He Took Me To One Of Those Server Rooms. And Something Clicked In My Head Saying; "I Love Servers". And Since Then, I Am Super Into Datacenters, UPS Systems, Cooling And All That Cool Stuff. And I Wish To Become A Datacenter Worker Like You In The Future. Love Your Channel And Your Content. Thanks For Inspiring Young Souls Like Me :) Keep It Up

[@jakehall12]

More server videos please, love watching them, one of the best setups I've seen for a school.

[@JakeBilling]

Ok guys, I've finally had time to create a Facebook page to keep you guys posted on everything that's happening, if you'd like to follow it go to facebook.com/jakebillingonyoutube/ and hit that like button! The more the merrier!

[@BradMottram]

It's sad to see environments like this going away these days and being replaced with BYOD & Cloud Systems. I guess i'm just an on-prem type of person.

[@zachb657]

Same here! Its alos putting a big dent in IT jobs as well. Sad Sad!

[@bannereddivpool]

It is sad, especially when companies and organizations keep you as the middle man forcing you to maintain a system that really isn't yours to begin with. Eventually these companies see the benefits and cost savings of not going to cloud and want to bring everything back in house. The cloud is a pain to work with getting data back into your hands... stormy cloud.

[@happyb.s.productions316]

Cloud services can only go so far. If a school of 5000 kids ran a network off of an off-site cloud service, NO ONE COULD GET THERE WORK DONE. also, active directory controllers should be ran locally for the sake of security as well as speed and efficientcy.

[@jasoncummings7052]

@@bannereddivpool A Hybrid Cloud is a great option for many enterprises. For example many find it suitable to use Exchange Mail in the cloud (Azure) while keeping File Share on premises. Then use cloud to backup or sync on premises File Share to cloud like File Sync. Many companies like this option.

[@NARoads2016]

Cloud systems are actually located phisically somehwere...

[@freshgino]

Great Video! In IT, our job is to keep the kids connected to the Internet so they can watch cat videos and get themselves in trouble.

[@jesse-joyduke6768]

lool... are you a teacher or something?

[@TheDave000]

All these people saying "Oh you could do it better and virtualise everything" - you're correct that would be a more elegant solution, but you've obviously not worked in a place that gives you a bit of cap ex every year and you slowly add to what you already have. Also, no one cares outside IT geeks. If it works, that's all the school cares about. So its a new server here, a new server there. Converting the whole thing to VMware or similar would be a pretty big job, with no benefit to the end user. This is the way things are in the real world!

[@JakeBilling]

TheDave000 Well said Dave 👍🏻

[@dawid8844]

I've converted to Ovirt, unlike VMware it's free to use and it's been up for two years with no issues. It took us from 120 machines to 12, there were huge power savings, able to migrate VM's meaning no downtime and the four storage machines replicate the VM's drives.

[@jfbeam]

Indeed. In this case, virtualization would only add cost and complexity. It's not like they have hundreds of machines mostly doing nothing. They have a dozen, all doing exactly what they need. Plus, consolidation would increase the I/O load.

[@andrewherbert5730]

I hate the fact that you are right - someone who also works in IT in the real world

[@mathieujulien9961]

that the sad truth of our work.

[@dubstep_lover5335]

fuuuuuccccckkkkk!!!! The power usage is burning my eyes to look at! I wonder how many KWHours have been used since setup!!

[@justinlaurelli9085]

OMG THAT CABLE MANAGEMENT IM IN LOVE

[@perrysheil9007]

If you could do an updated version of the server room, that would be great :) Or has not a lot changed? Thanks

[@treve61]

A couple of things I thought to be odd were the fact you left 1U gaps between the servers. We normally don't leave gaps and if there are we close them to optimize the cooling through the servers, speaking of which, I noticed that you have one(it appears) ceiling-mounted split unit AC which seems to be blowing over the cabinets instead of in front so the equipment could suck up the cold air directly. In similar server rooms we did, we setup two(for redundancy) wall mounted split ACs next to each other that would blow directly on the front of the cabinets. At the back of the cabinets/racks we installed two exhaust ceiling fans in case of emergency to suck out hot air if for some reason the temperature falls below a certain point. In some installations we have cabinet roof exhaust fans(APC) on the cabinets that exit through a duct. Most of which we have controlled with an APC Netbotz 450 with additional sensors for smoke, water, temperature etc. I only see 1 UPS. I suppose you have a main UPS outside the server room somewhere (with software controlled shutdown) and hopefully a generator. Just some suggestions. I suppose most of this equipment has now been replaced. If you have cabinets, try to keep everything racked instead of equipment all over the place. I know it's not always easy especially in schools/universities. Finance doesn't understand ICT and will always say there is no money for that. That's why you have to document everything and request in writing stating why it is essential to have certain equipment replaced and what could be the consequences if not replaced. If anything goes wrong you can point the finger and say here is all the communications and Finance rejected it. Remember finance/money is not your job, ICT is, therefor don't go buying cheap equipment or cut corners, it'll come back and bite you in the a.. What I'm saying is make key decisions based on your ICT knowledge not on the amount of money you think you can spend. Seen this in play at multiple customers. Always remember Murphy's Law. Redundancy is key in every aspect. We even have the ACs on different groups and phases to avoid both shutting down because of an electrical failure. Greetings.

[@plaguewolf7581]

my first thought was , damn, look at that sexy cable managment! then i saw the yellow cables. im guessing white cables were done at time of install of the racks/servers, and thats the result of "fiddling" with the setup

[@143HawkBlack]

Man this is the dream for the schools around here. We still are running Windows server 2008, using 50MB switches, cheap UPS' that die before they're ever used, and Windows 7 on PC built in 2004. Just recently, they decided to move most operations over to google services using Chrome books, which is a complete waste of time since the so-called wireless connection points can't keep up with 20 students in one area, and once a day every month the network stops working. I've personally seen their server setup. Its a inter-NAT style thing but the only internet cable going to the ISP is a old CAT4, completely mangled cable. This is not to mention the communication between departments. My father had to replace a tower server because the electricians unexpectedly installed solar panels and cut power with out acknowledging the presence of servers and switches.

[@143HawkBlack]

....in a hot closet with not ventilation.

[@shoaibhussain7300]

Awesome video. It's great as an Junior IT Technician to get an such a detailed insight into a large organisation's network. Thank you for sharing this video.

[@Drive-n-Vibe]

smoothwall, that fucking evil thing

[@juliuseskola1281]

Hahahaha

[@facezxa]

the amber system health led blinking on the hp proliants...

[@felix945]

on nearly all of his HP equipment the health light is on.

[@puchmaxi_hazza2180]

this is because they only run on 1 power supply

[@koschei8136]

3:00 DL380 G5's?

[@markusstielz9461]

Nice Vid Man, i really like it! Great stuff! Keep it up! Big Fan of yours! Greetings from Greek!

[@richardj163]

One of the cleanest “IT” network / server rooms I’ve seen. Usually “IT” is a spaghetti mess. (From a Network Tech in Telecom.)

[@JJFlores197]

I agree. I work in K12 IT and our data cabinets across schools and classrooms are a mess. We've cleaned them out recently, but its still not as great as we'd like. Years upon years of neglect, laziness, turnover and lack of time/prioritization leads to this mess at our sites.

[@IRONMAIDENFAN2]

If I had to be in a room, or just in school in general, I'd rather be in a server room at my school, rather than learning about Shakespeare and other useless things.

[@McRambro]

Ikr they teach kids about useless shit then when it comes to working in the real world they have no clue like how to deal with customers in retail.

[@metalfingerz4203]

@@McRambro it's not wrong to learn about old authors. Guys like Beccaria wrote about death penalty for example, and this argument is still relevant. But they should delete useless argument like ancient civilization that steals precious time to subjects like computer technology

[@henri1_96]

@bruh math is useless

[@battlebuddy4517]

The education system is infected by domcats

[@henri1_96]

@Minwon Jang I agree. I was just taking the piss. ;) I study statistics myself. Keep up the good work during this pandemic, I am really struggling with only the help of these zoom lectures. :d

[@guitarFAIL]

man i feel fascinated over this kind of stuff. thanks for sharing dude

[@nutellagnuen]

So many different brands, models and types, macs, small UPS, cables all over, soo many network switches, different network devices. Im glad I have my single firewall, HP Switches, HP Blades, 3PAR storage. You could spare so much management by consolidating in both virtual servers and hardware (narrowing it down in brands and models).

[@HareshKainth]

Thats a fantastic setup. May I ask, what is the power consumption and cost of running those machines ? Thank you for sharing.

[@jonathankeenan80]

Can you do a tour of the pa system amplifiers next?

[@johnbourke7528]

Great network best on youtube. I saw on one of your videos you upgraded the windows server 2012 from server 2003. That was very impressive.

[@bentheguru4986]

First server rack, Just about every server and NAS was in fault mode, UPS at bottom not even running. I sense a SYS-ADMIN with over-complicated mess.

[@doofusgilmore7164]

Not properly designed and set up. Sloppy mess

[@1creeperbomb]

My school has larger server room but it's occupied by 2 4 gb desktop PCs that the IT department expects to handle all the traffic and computers. Then they got a huge budget increase and instead of actually upgrading anything, they bought a load of Chromebooks and chrome-desks simply because they're easy to manage considering that they do practically nothing. EDIT: The Chromebook program was sort of a failure and now the deportment is refunding in the school's workstations and servers, but still retaining dome chrome desks

[@binaryoverload]

Better than our school system... Our school struggles to log in xD

[@bdnugget]

I just got a HP DL380 G5 for nearly free and seemed like fun to play around with... the noise it produces in my small room scared me shitless and I don't think the neighbours are happy with it lmao.

[@ajs2120]

What is running off that 2200vA UPS, surely not that entire rack of servers? It looks like it's off as well?

[@alexsiniov]

Non precision cooling unit sucking cold air and pushing the same air behind the racks where is the cold zone? :)) You should reposition AC to the hot zone, so it could work and cool something atleast :D

[@magicmulder]

Coindicentally, DC01 and DC02 were the names of our Oracle database instances - until DC01 failed and we ended up with DC02 for the rest of our life (we got more professional failover scenarios in place now, having two distinct instances was not a good idea to be back up again quick after a failure).

[@imo4501]

wow. this discipline

[@willkoe3215]

That is a nice server room dude!!!!

[@itsFiftyy]

We have a server room at work and the cables are so messy it gives me OCD.

[@hectorvega3303]

I was not able to understand. Why is the mac server rarely used?

[@olorinhenderson]

Thanks for sharing this video, it was a good watch! i guess more virtualisation is to come when you renew/retire these servers? 18C is too cold and such a waste of energy; even bumping to 22C will save so much power without any impact to kit. THN is controlled 22-28C and we've no problems.

[@JakeBilling]

Thanks for watching

[@jesse-joyduke6768]

yes. great say there.

[@yonikibru4334]

Hey Jake! So what are the company names and model numbers of the server below Member 3 as well as a Clipbank server and backup router below the QNAP?

[@smerf2010]

Tell me which kind of hardware Smoothwall is installed on ;)

[@Na7ure]

Looks great. Cable management was done well!

[@jesse-joyduke6768]

yes. you got that right

[@network_king]

I've seen racks that look like gobs of spaghetti, racks with cables draped over top of them racks with like 4 switches in them and gobs of wasted spaces on other racks. We have one spot I guess they had some contractor that never did datacom before run the UTP cable the jacks weren't labeled, are all over the place, the same duplex jack in a room could easily tie to two different patch pannels. They then had a prior employee tone out all the drops and label them and he stuck the labels right over the patch panel numbers. It works so i guess it's okay but is really annoying to deal with.

[@janizary-8767]

I assembled a few desktops myself, I am a confident PC user but I barely got anything you said about these machines.

[@MazeFrame]

At the local school, the server consists of two water.cooled hamster wheels!

[@shady4tv]

That one tiny UPS... wtf is that all about? Please tell me you just have a really big UPS in another room or something... I REALLY hope there is not a power outage lol

[@zxcvb_bvcxz]

Interesting mix of OS X and Windows there. I miss the XServes. I wonder how much this setup has changed in the 4 (!) years since this video was made

[@jnewton0033]

With that many servers you should have most of them virtualized via blade server for better management but just my opinion. Didn't see any fiber running to the distribution or access switches either but I couldn't tell if the switches were dedicated rj-45 or could take SFP modules. Rather clean though!

[@jellydiablo8573]

Those Looked like Pentuim 3 or Pentuim 4 Servers and I also saw a Dell Optiplex That looks like it ran Windows XP and or Windows Server 2003 judging by the OS stickers

[@drbass9677]

They run server 2012 r2 with Xeon CPUs.

[@happyb.s.productions316]

@ 0:25 call me crazy, but are all those switches using a single 1gig Ethernet port for all the clients and devices on each individual switch? That wouldn't settle for me mate, and 2nd. Never once did I hear about a proxy caching server. That can definitely boost your bandwidth, reduce your internet usage over Fiber and be able to free up the speed for other online needs. Especially in an enterprise environment. Personally? I would take that HP proliant ML350 you have sitting in the back beside the CCTV setup and configure it to use as proxy caching for the network. For Storage on server, i would use (8) 2tb sas drives in a raid 10 config, 48gb of ram, (2) 8 core Xeons, and add an SFP dual channel Fiber nic, configure the controller to use Round Robin LAG on your local network. So it provides web caching 10gb/s up and 10gb/s down simultaneously.

[@metraman0102]

It looks like it may be an sfp/Ethernet module, probably 10 gig.

[@Max34557]

Everthing that's running on all those individual servers could probably be virtualized on 2 high end ESXi servers.

[@feola69]

this video is nearly 5 years old. Virtual DC's were bad practice then. But also its harder to get approval for bigger purchases. Its a smaller school, you deal with what you got and how much money you can spend.

[@melvincornelissen9292]

So much hardware, why no virtualisation? And what's up with al that space between the servers? No wonder you need the separate cabinet to hold the other servers :p.

[@mateuszch.6931]

BEAUTIFUL. Thanks

[@jungl3ist]

Hi man , very nice managed server room. The most interesting part for me is the pc management with as i understood is the deployment server, blocking refreshing remotely pc s . Could you do some explanation regarding this. I m very interested, i m a sysadmin as well, and i would like to reduce my software update and deployment time. Subbed and liked

[@skl27]

Oh man i already thought that the networking and the (only) "server" in my school was bad and now the best i can describe it is yours is a sportscar and at my school a f***cking lawnmower, but yours for a school not to shabby. :D

[@hayzeproductions7093]

What the real shame is, the bottom cabling of the switch rack looked fine, until you showed the top. I am a fan of the HP Proliant Servers, i have 6 of those at my companies office. The ML350 G6 models, not the DL 380 ones. well i could be wrong on your models, but they look like the Proliant DL models. If your running the whole school on windows servers, you better have high availability active directory cluster going with those proliant servers. No one likes to sit for 30 minutes trying to log into a pc. That is always the number 1 mistake for a lot of schools around where i live. Great setup!

[@juliuseskola1281]

Oh..lol my school uses local government's server that is located in a WW2 bunker 80m deep in the rock. Accessing it and seeing all the stuff they use behind the scenes would be nice, but it's pretty much impossible unlike in your site; you could show it to students (...although i guess you are not allowed to :D)

[@juliuseskola1281]

+Julius Eskola and forgot to say nice video and i have visited my school network room, though it's just switches and routers. I personally have two servers (though only one of them is a "real server") a server with 3.1 GHz quad-core, 16GB RAM and windows server 2012 as OS and a Raspberry pi 2. I think i am the only 14 year old in town who has a dedicated server :) lol

[@samull4946]

+Julius Eskola 13 y/o and raspi3 + odroid xu4 :3

[@juliuseskola1281]

Nice! Everything big starts by little...

[@prashantpawar8955]

Love to. See good share 👍

[@JeremyScalpello1]

Is that Smoothwall filter DNS based or is it layer 7 filtering?

[@jesse-joyduke6768]

very nice. great lessons learnt today

[@JakeBilling]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@fnccom]

what a great management of cables

[@MrBridge09]

Is one split unit enough as I generally see two or three, with drip trays and alarm mechanisms. What's your fire protection prevention strategy, i.e. FM 200 etc. ,

[@yonikibru4334]

What are the company names of the 3 racks and the secondary cabinet?

[@tobunewdelhi1492]

Enjoyed your video

[@JakeBilling]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tobunewdelhi1492]

@@JakeBilling sir actually I am also in same field I use to repair desktop and does some basic troubleshooting of network from past 2years I don't have job I stay in India you are a stranger to me I am asking a favour can you provide a training or job for server setup and maintanence in your country

[@Walterz930]

What software is used for the os deployment of the same windows and network boots mate

[@samuelb7944]

Any update video following?

[@ilike2mow]

Very nice video sir.

[@JakeBilling]

Thank you

[@JakeBilling]

@idroid7 impero for remote management and windows deployment services and Microsoft deployment toolkit for imaging buddy

[@lahyhdina]

Jake Billing many thanks from morocco ^^ , you helped me alot & please how we can audit a server !? & test if it works good ..? thank u for your effort & help

[@samuelederiu204]

ciao

[@ronaldchinomona7041]

Very nice setup, i like it but not much virtualization is going on here..I think there are too many physical servers for the applications and uses mentioned.

[@peterbour3112]

Yeah, I agree. That server room is so clean XD

[@SPimentaTV]

Those ethernet cables are shielded?

[@jacobanderson9530]

do you still use the old 3Com switches?

[@Another_Random_Dave]

Is this what online gaming servers would look like?

[@jakub8282]

Hello. Can you please tell me what it's called the "laptop" at the beginning? All servers are involved and that these can be controlled through a single device. I saw, for example, in Facebook centers. Otherwise, the video is super like a subscription

[@JakeBilling]

It's called a KVM

[@DigisDen]

Its was a shame to see no Linux stuff in there.

[@billyashworth3944]

A lot of offices and schools use Microsoft products so it would be daft to have a Linux server in a Windows/Microsoft-package school.

[@DigisDen]

+Billy Ashworth The high school who's network I managed used to be a full Windows shop too until I got there. I just think personally, schools should be leading the way with open source.

[@billyashworth3944]

Darren Williams​ I gotta say, my old high school began running MS Office but after a few years began to incorporate OpenOffice and other free/open source packages

[@Ocela]

When I saw it running Windows 8 I was disgusted

[@koschei8136]

+Ocela Saw your other comment too, even though it's based on Windows 8. That's not Windows 8, that's Server 2012 R2. -_-

[@resneptacle]

Nice setup... we only have one Server with the size of a normal tower pc and a nas as a small backup solution, with a often failing 8k internet connection without any type of fiber or so installed in our school :/

[@ccook1981]

You could just buy a VBLOCK and be down to one rack. whats the run time of that UPS 2 min?

[@ccars008]

Why 18 why not 20? What temp should your server room be nowadays?

[@vsolace4176]

Wow I’ve only seen a few seconds of a schools server and currently I’ve heard that connecting to the internet is like trying to make ice in hell

[@FireBoy-ud8dp]

Because of the virus

[@Jormunguandr]

Comfy setup. :)

[@manojlk]

what will be the cost, if I started own servers room for my hostinger company.

[@jamescollins6085]

I'm surprised there is not a gigabit line.

[@marco114]

why run every end point back to that room instead of running a switch in each area? odd

[@TheRealJLucas]

Less points of failure.

[@GeckTech]

So wait, I thought it wasn't a C2K Network. But isn't sims C2K software?

[@gammalikker]

cool to see but i would aproach this completely diverent u could remove half the equipment and save a couple grand just by using linux. also did u say 100mbit fiber?

[@dannylberry]

Schools get Windows almost free

[@Josh-yj3ov]

How can u do all that cable management i cant do that with just 1 wire

[@mrvoltagetech3655]

Nice video. That is a spaghetti junction of wires.

[@ManofCulture]

It's for Por... I mean research purposes :3

[@dripgotthatdrip]

XD

[@BlitzCentral]

The one room in the building you can actually call your own. Edit: Oh God!!!!!!!! SIMS!!!!!!!!! Edit2: How come Impero runs on its own server? Couldn't it just run on your HyperV host? And do you use MDT for image deployment?

[@Crosbie85]

I wonder if I can build a mini one of these😂

[@stevenbarber2703]

My School ran fog as our imaging software its linux based if your thinking of switching but i like what you use to reimage

[@joecasey6155]

Fog is legendary

[@averagedev7768]

Only thing i personaly see wrong is that student and staff network arent phisically seperated

[@JJFlores197]

That's why we have VLANs, isn't it? Unless I'm not understanding something.

[@zadkieladdae8145]

I hope all the servers are virtualized now.

[@douglaseberhardt]

How does one get an IT job like this? Qualifications?

[@Mark_nobody3]

I think get started at a college or learning institute then get into university and get to learn the trade from physical to practical, finish with all diploma to get the job and experience

[@IcarusFlying]

wow just wow..!

[@AureliusR]

Why is everything all Windows?

[@mikeking7844]

lucky those werent huawei switches... LITTLE DID WE KNOW!!!!

[@bayusayang1149]

Cable management. Well done.

[@calibraladzz]

Can you help me understand the KVM setup?

[@ElitesEngineering]

All of the servers are connected into a KVM switch and you use one mouse, one keyboard, and one monitor to control any of those servers. So for example you have 20 servers, you don't want to have 20 keyboards, mice, and screens right? So you get a KVM solution and that turns all of those 20 keyboards, mice, and screens into 1.

[@calibraladzz]

ah, Great thank you.

[@naziakhatoon8388]

Thank U Sir...Nice Video appreciated

[@techosarusrex]

Do u allow ur students to access KZbin

[@ItsLuxYt]

POV : Roblox Server Room

[@tunnerrocks]

no redundant HVACs :O haha my sysadmin teacher would flip out if he saw that ;) hes all about the nine nines! 99.999% Other then that its pretty nice :), reminds me of the one at my highschool. On a side tangent, how many people on average use the system (students/staff)?