Look at my HUGE RACK! (moving 11)

I have this new rack in the back and I got to pick it up at the factory where it was made thanks to one of your comments on moving Vlog N9 I've moved everything out of my little 10t X 10t home office and into this studio and the goal to have space to work on projects I had to Shelf at home like working on the giant 60 Drive stor natator another goal for 2024 is to make more videos with my dad for gearing engineering and wait you're not subscribed go subscribe over there too we just did a tour of a 50 kwatt amm transmitter last month it's worth a watch but for gearing engineering my dad and I put up this logo in the space it's the logo he had created for his business gearing engineering back when I was born he gave me the file off this ancient floppy disc and I blew it up for the wall and I have this space over here marked off for an Electronics desk mostly so my dad can come and have some fun here too we'll get to that but there's a lot to cover today like always use the chapter markers below to skip around and watch the parts you like most so let's get started I tried getting everything possible into moving boxes because it's a lot easier to just move boxes and stack them up but I kept uncovering little things I had to take care of underneath all this mess I had this uh thing that I had mailed to my dad he was my first ever qso and I put the wrong address on it so I'm going to readdress that and send that off to him after a couple months of not having it out to him and my kids must have been excited at this point too I even spotted one of their toys in with the boxes one of the kids toys is hanging around back there I hope I hope I don't accidentally take that to the office too there are a few things that are staying though after moving out all the clear boxes I finally uncovered all my stickers I had been putting on this cabinet before I put this up I started using this as my like sticker wall so you can see there's all kinds of fun stickers back here you can't really see all of them that'll be revealed but this will turn into a sewing room so I don't know if I'm going to take this thing with me or not it was crazy how much stuff it accumulated in and around my desk too look at this that was all in and under my desktop that's crazy and there's still there's still the full rack with my PC my Mac my switch I mean I had used that desk for a decade first as a remote software architect then it evolved into an Electronics workbench where I also shot most of my videos so I guess it's understandable there was so much clutter literally starting with the key light here this is this is all things that were in or on or attached under the desk that was like 4 hours to get all that off of here but it was moving day at last it was actually a bit of a whirlwind and I had forgotten to press record on the GoPro so I only got a few minutes of the actual moving I did record about an hour and a half while we were gone but I won't bore you with that the next day I went back down to my old basement office and almost everything was gone now well it's empty now and there's a lot more Echo without those sound panels and without my desk which used to be here I also took down the guitar that's sitting on the shelf over here I don't know if I'll move it to the office or not uh but so little fun fact for people that haven't watched the channel for too long there used to be a plant in the shot that I had uh but the plant went out of the shot once I changed the angle and pointed over at this corner but that plant's been there for four or 5 years now it's been there for a long time this room will be sewing and crafts for the kids and that will be what it is coming up but not right now right now it's uh empty and eoy and I need to vacuum it but at the end of day two things were starting to come together we're on day two of the move in and I have my desk over here and then there's the main shooting area where we got the uh these sound panels up I have a few more of them but right now it already sounds pretty good in here the HVAC is actually running you might be able to hear it a little bit one of the things that I'm hugely happy about is I bought these two rubber made carts I'm going to be able to work on a project on each one and wheel it around and when it's time to do a video on it I can just wheel it over here set up the stuff on the desk and then work on it and I don't have to try to figure out how to put a server on this desk while I'm recording which is pretty much impossible these giant servers just don't fit on there so I've had to work in my workshop and you know there's not much room down there in my basement so having this shooting area will be unbelievably helpful and then eventually we're going to get the rack back in the Rack Room the server room back there and now before I get to the the big rack in the Rack Room I learned something new about this little rack the one I mentioned I got from a local high school I wanted casters for it and I was about to drill holes in the bottom when I noticed it already had some maybe there would already be a kit for it somewhere inside of the rack there's a label that says the rack was made by L and looking them up I found out they do in fact have a Caster kit so I ordered one now completely unrelated after moving Vlog 9 when I asked about getting a bigger rack a comment by abose actually suggested I call L see they're only like 30 minutes away from here in Pacific Missouri so I called them and they sent over this massive rack but before we get to it I want to talk about LEL and before you skip this sponsored bit give it a chance especially if you like seeing manufacturing lines and giant lasers that cut through metal like butter L's a family run business that's been around St Louis since 1947 and they have a really cool Factory from giant rolls of raw metal to fully automated laser cutters and brakes I was like a kid in a candy shop L's been family-owned and operated uh for 80 years and we represent the third generation in the somay maybe one of you guys someday someday we will be taking the rains yeah it's a family oriented culture here so we know everyone by name we know what everyone does know about all the different departments Thomas and Jarrett took me around the factory floor and I got to meet some of the workers building their thousands of products they have this giant fully automated laser cutter and it just CHS through sheet metal all day and nearby there's also a giant automated punch press that cuts out thousands of Parts every hour and nothing goes to waste uh we get about a quarter um for every dollar spent back on this so this is we actually get to recycle this and replan value and do you recycle that in town somewhere we do we do so weing it yeah they also have literal tons of brakes from this giant expert 150 where things get done eventually to a state-of-the-art completely automated brake from salvini there's even a completely automated welding robot that complements the manual welding stations over here then as we got to the back part of the factory I could see the entire automated paint line workers hang Parts at the start then they go up into the washing station and ovens this is our five-stage wash system so by the time the parts come down to this area of the shop parts are greasy um and they've got a lot of uh dirt and slime on them we have to clean the parts off and get them charged and ready for paint you're looking at two ovens here so once the parts come out out of the wash it goes through a dry off oven to get any residual moisture and chemical off of it the parts begin to make their way to the actual paint booth heading into the paint booth we even found some of the rack Cable Management trays working their way inside the paint booth mostly deals with black and white but they can do other colors too for custom orders this machine pulls paint out of one of these giant paint Hoppers and sprays the paint in powder form in a literal cloud while the parts slowly move through it's a lot quieter once you head into the warehouse where they have thousands and thousands of Parts ready to ship out so if you order from their website after watching this video chances are someone will go pick it and ship it right from these shelves and it's cool to see a company like this making almost all their products on Shore 95% of the products in our line are indeed entirely made here in the US at the end of the tour we finally came to my new rack this is their first demo model of a new data center line they're making the DAT 24 series there's a link below if you want to read more of its specs or look at it Big Brother the DAT 31 but these are true data center racks with cage nuts movable rails and access to every part you can pop off side panels get access to the back in tight spaces with split doors and lock everything up I'll get back to the rack but our next challenge was getting this thing to the studio now this might be more controversial than the diet soda comments in my last Vlog Diet Pepsi actually won round one by the way but I'm just going to say it a minivan is better than a truck I mean it hauls up to seven people pretty comfort but if you're not hauling people you can haul full 4x8 sheets fully enclosed and climate controlled oh and it also fits this full data center rack 46 in deep right in the back with enough room left over for a UPS too so yeah some people hate on minivans but not me these things are awesome and it's probably not ideal to offload the rack with just two people you may have noticed there were four guys loading it in at L but that didn't stop my friend Ben and I from trying we didn't want to shatter the back window and I I hope my wife doesn't see this part of the video but we eventually decided to just send it and we got it out luckily the thing's on casters so besides Ben probably tweaking his lower back here getting it from the van into the space was a lot easier than just getting it out of the van and well maybe there's a reason trucks have that nice truck bed outside the cabin no back door glass or roof to worry about so I concede on that point but just barely anyway thank Ben down in the comments for helping me get that thing wrestled into the space and thank L for sending the rack if if you're interested in any kind of racks enclosures or audio and Power Solutions check out L's website they have a ton of cool products for every kind of install but with the Rack in my space finally I had some time to get acquainted with it not only is it plenty big enough for me to fit inside it has some nice features for getting at everything from removable side panels on both sides to split doors on the back so it can fit in a tight space like this without taking off the doors the top has brushes for cable entry and here's one of those Cable Management bars we saw getting painted back in the factory I put the rack against the wall which I realized a bit later wasn't ideal but then I leveled it with the feet built into the base I still don't understand the physics of thousands of pounds of servers being supported by four little leveling feet but if it works it works the next step was installing this UPS a battery backup that also conditions the power going into my servers LEL actually white labels UPS is manufactured by extreme power conversion under the Brand L power I haven't ever used this kind of UPS before but I'll definitely report on how it works works over the long term it has a set of four batteries in this plastic tray and I took them out before I installed the UPS just to save some weight it's easier to install the UPS then install the batteries afterwards it also came with this combo transfer switch and pdu that lets me bypass the UPS if I need to replace it I put in the rack rails they're just a simple kind that support the bottom of the ups and you know what I kind of dinged this doy screwdriver when I compared it to the other ratcheting drivers last year but it's not bad the more I use it it's not great for computer but having some hex drivers built right into the shaft means I can use it as a driver like this for rack mount gear or Furniture a little easier than a driver like ltts in the end though having a few different screwdrivers is still the best if you can afford it after I got the UPS in the rack I popped in the battery and then of course I saved the best part for you to watch I turned it on and at least while it's charging the batteries the fan runs it's not loud but it's definitely not silent either luckily the fan stops after the battery's charged up and I'm pretty pleased with it if I do need to replace this UPS I can do that without unplugging any servers as long as I plug everything through this bypass switch something a bit more controversial in the rack is this RGB strip I install after seeing techno Tim's fancy homeb rack I got the idea to put in some lighting for two reasons first it does look neat and second at least with subtle amounts of light it does make visibility a little better of course I'm not going to run it 24/7 that' be be wasteful and I also want to integrate it into home assistant maybe I could even set segments red if there's a fault in the network or something but goie doesn't make that easy maybe I'll find a w LED controller for it though we'll see but if you saw the last video on the1 to $100,000 server you'll know the first server to go into this rack was the storinator my dad helped me get it installed and that's when I found out for Twan lifts especially for a 36in deep server like this we had to angle the rack out toward the door a little more so it's not 90° to the wall but I'd rather make the rack a little more a skew than damage my back muscles even more than they already are trying to install heavy servers while I'm bent over but the big rack wasn't the only thing getting equipped the mini Network rack now has a micro tick 10 gig switch it's the same one I have at my desk and it's perfect when you just need a few ports and light management between that and my patch panel I added this neat patch and of all things the plastic neat patch box made me offer the blood sacrifice I guess it realized I was cheating and using rack studs instead of cage nuts so it decided decided to take over the responsibility of drawing blood but I put those in routed some of the patch cables through the neat patch and eventually wound up here with an older Aruba Poe plus switch filling in a little more space below I have the home assistant yellow and net gear Wi-Fi AP plugged into that so I can power those straight off Poe now and I'm mostly using these Monoprice cat 6A patch cables the 30 gauge copper isn't quite as thick as a normal patch cable but since it's only Poe Plus at 1 gig and not Poe Plus+ I think they should be fine if I upgrade to a 2.5 gig switch or need any Poe Plus+ devices I might rethink that decision I don't like sending too much power over these tiny cables but I also got to do something I've wanted to do for a long time and finally have all my patch cables handy on the wall using one of these patch cable holders this one's from Frameworks and the fingers are wide enough to hold ethernet DAC and other patch cables I also decided to pop a small pegboard next to it so I can store some cage nuts and a few tools right next to the rack in the past I'd have all the stuff in a box or a drawer but now that I have a server closet I thought I'd make it that much more efficient and just have everything on hand the networking will probably evolve a bit but right now my main goal is getting everything online fast but I'll be working on vlans and getting a high-speed connection over to this rack soon right now there's literally a long direct attach cable dangling from the wall rack over to the lower rack that's not ideal what is ideal is the ethernet runs my dad actually brought his fluke tester and we tested all the runs to the studio they all passed with flying colors why would you want to use a tester like this instead of just plugging in the computer well because it can tell you faults and deficiencies uh some of you know the better testers can tell you deficiencies that you can't tell when using your computer uh things that would cause data issues and slowing down your speed your auto speed connection so this is id1 go back it'll tell you id1 how many feet it is and all the connected wires whether they're connected correctly how does it how does it know how many feet the wire is it's not going in there with a measuring tape yeah it does that magic uh transmission uh I forget what that's called tdrr type stuff so that it can tell where the fault would be too so it can tell you usually about you know where the fault is so that way if you like if we had a run here that was fine and it was like 80 ft and then at 80 foot the fault was there we would look on the other end of the cable but if it was one foot it would be somewhere in here maybe yeah and if you had it if it said it was 12T and you knew it was not 12 ft that would be a clue too Jack two right yep we'll see if my in actually made it through from installation to now we'll see I have high confidence I have relatively high no this I don't have that set up in here number two let's see 6 ft boom perfectly wired 60t yeah all right number three perfect 54 ft so three for three the other ones are not terminated yet on the other end so we can't test them well thanks Mr fluke you're welcome wait I'm not Mr and you can of course test your patch cables too I don't know how many old patch cables I have laying around but sometimes you grab one plug it in and you only get like 100 megabits that's usually from a kink in the cable or a busted connector so having one of these testers is pretty handy and it even works with ancient rj11 Jacks another trick that's fun is you can take for those of us who still have to deal with silk cords for phones wait a second that only has six connectors what good is that it can't do ethernet R j11 are Decades of phones that existed before cellular phones took over a lot of these cables still in use by a lot of people you can still test it because they will fit right in the center and it will tell you this is a very short cable but it'll tell you that's connected correctly 0er Feet 3 to three yeah zero feet so if you ever find one of these jacks on your wall you can still test it with an ethernet cable tester and if you're okay with just 100 megabits well you could actually get that over one of these old wires moving on to the studio space my main goal after moving everything in was being able to record and edit a video inside the studio so the first task was setting up the editing desk where I'm recording now this is the desk I moved from home now you can quickly run into a form of decision paralysis if you start radically changing up your workspace after a move so I decided to put almost everything back exactly how it was at home with one major exception since the power and ethernet are on the left side of my new desk location I moved my little mini rack over there cable management is a bit of a mess right now but it is functional one goal I do want to work on is getting a better desk recording setup I might still record a few videos over here from time to time so I bought an Elgato prompter a new microphone and this massive manf magic arm to mount it all onto a desk pull I've had a little trouble with the microphone setup because when I plug it into my Sony camera I get a buzz there's some sort of ground Loop caused by plugging my Sony camera into wall power but why not just plug the mic into my computer I could do that but then I have to deal with the delayed HDMI signal coming out of my mirrorless camera the audio would always be a few hundred milliseconds ahead of the video but I'll work on that later one thing that did work right away was this third reality zigg Outlet I put it under the desk synced it to home assistant then installed a stream deck plug-in for home assistant now I have this desk cam button on the stream deck when I press it it turns on the outlet which in turn turns on the camera am I lazy or is this genius I don't know it just saves me the time having to walk around the desk to turn on the camera camera I also popped some sound panels on the wall near my desk and put up some pegboards in the area too again just like the desk I had an organization system for my camera gear that worked at home so I pretty much replicated it here over time I can make it more efficient but for now I don't want to waste time trying to reorganize everything the last thing I did at my desk since I didn't have any other storage set up in the studio yet was plug in this flash store Nas I was originally using it as an edit Nas for a few months but every week or two I would get some error while editing a timeline and Final Cut Pro and I'd lose like 5 minutes of work that got frustrating so I decided to move the footage back to my Mac Studio for now and the Flash door is probably the most overkilled time machine backup ever I did pull out six of the ssds just to save some power there's no use having 12 terabyt of backup space on it running 24/7 I'm still working on this desk setup and might do a full tour sometime but it was time to move on to the main recording set it's all centered around this flexi spot e7q and yes last video sponsorship integration was a full 2 minutes long I was happy to do it though because look around for a solid four-leg sit stand desk there aren't many out there working with Flexi spot on that sponsorship means I have this awesome new desk for the main shooting area but a desk is just one thing I needed set up I had to get lights and a microphone setup too and that meant a cand now when you're dealing with lights and SE stands any seasoned grip will warn you about a few things like the right hand rule where you always put the weight towards the right of the knob at the top of the pole or the rule that you always put a sandbag on the tallest leg before you attach any lights you'll notice I didn't do that and the weight of the light wasn't directly above the longest leg I wish I didn't just have a time lapse of this it's a perfect illustration of what not to do when you set up a SE so of course I grabbed a sandbag and threw it over the leg alls well that ends well but don't skimp on safety there's a reason grips should be paid well if they do their job wrong people could actually die and once I got all that stuff set up I did my first real test recording all right everything's working this is the new setup it's a little Barren back here for now but I do have the uh Eclipse picture over here and I'll be working on kind of set decoration or whatever soon I actually had a train Roll by earlier while I was testing the microphone and you can barely hear anything on the very lowend base and I can just roll that off uh the one thing that you can hear is the H vac system the HVAC is running and there is a little bit of a rumble it's enough enough to hit the Noise Gate on this uh voice processor so I don't know if I could record with that running or not over the next week or so I optimized the setup a bit and added this button it's a little aara Ziggy button and I set it to control everything over here it controls the lights the mic preamp and power to my little Blackmagic recording Monitor and that's all done using another third reality zigg Outlet these things are really handy and they even measure power consumption which is a nice little side benefit that way I can just come over here assuming my camera set up on the tripod and press a couple buttons to start recording and I talked to Patrick from serve the home and he convinced me to add in a rim light so I popped this amaran p6x on the ceiling grid and plugged it into the ceiling with another zigby Outlet so the setup is pretty nice I have an amaran 200x into a light doome 2 soft box for my key light a 100x into a godoc soft box for Phil and then this p6x behind me over the shoulder for hair or Rim light it's not going to win the Gerald undone award for lighting creativity but it looks looks a thousand times better than my old office lighting and I originally had the eclipse picture over here but you might have noticed it's now in my desk area for now I just have the stalic poster and a sticker board behind me the sticker board has almost 100 stickers on it already and I'll keep adding on more stickers as I get them I figure it's a fun way to acknowledge some of the companies and projects I've worked with in the past and to add in a few Easter eggs from time to time like did you know this little sheep up here is uno the mascot of flock note where I worked for a couple years or there's this little upside down mascot of Professional Services where I worked on some huge Drupal projects almost every sticker up here has a history and I like having a little of that history burned into my videos the board itself is just a $10 hardboard with a whiteboard surface on the other side and I mounted it on the wall using these standoff screws I bought off Amazon I'm not super creative on set design so expect things to change a little over time I'm still not sure if I'm going to stick with a straight on shot or go from an angled perspective yet and after getting bonked in the head and cut on the neat patch I realized if I ever get a bigger injury it' be a good idea to have some gauze and other supplies on hand so I bought this little first aid kit and I've been organizing and organizing mostly focusing on the studio space for now I bought this rolling Parts spin thing from Harbor Freight and it actually came together really nicely with Harbor Freight you get a 50/50 chance of something being a gem or a turd and in this case for the price and if you have the space for it it's amazing to have all these parts bins on a rolling cart and I've already started loading up the top with junk too like my extra Bell from the pi Bell slapper project with all this setup the First full video I recorded here was the one on the zega M gear until next time I'm Jeff Garling so it's already pretty optimized but I think there's a few more things that I can do to get this a little nicer I also bought a new video tripod and Dolly for the studio both from small rig it's nice to have a dedicated rolling teleprompter rig since I now have the space for it but now as explaining computers would say that's it for another video I'm still finishing up a lot of stuff and we'll get a full tour soon oh and I already had my first fire I'll be at a small one this Simply Safe doorbell just burned up I learned a lot about why it happened and hopefully how to prevent it from happening again but we'll see if you want the full story on all that subscribe and thanks again so much to both LEL for sponsoring this video and to all my patrons sponsors and channel members you made this whole thing possible until next time I'm Jeff Kling

Channel: Jeff Geerling

Views: 149,197

Keywords: rack, room, server, closet, servers, moving, vlog, 11, eleven, series, red shirt jeff, storinator, rackmount, gear, homelab, sysadmin, storage, shelves, network, net, ups, lowell, pacific, mo, missouri, manufacturing, tour, factory, sheet metal, bending, brake, laser, cutter, salvagnini, press, punch, paint, booth, powder, coat, spray, clean, welding, robot, studio, setup, youtuber, remote control, home assistant, lighting, c-stand, safety, first aid, mikrotik, switch, cabling

Id: bb1-9JRJ6UA

Length: 24min 26sec (1466 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 03 2024