New Dell R810 Server Review

how's it going everybody happy friday to everyone so the new server showed up today i'm actually really happy about it and i think i might have said it was an hp proliant i was wrong it's an it's a dell r810 it's a 2u server it's actually pretty nice i'll see if i can't pull up the uh the picture of it that i bought it from on ebay actually give me a i didn't think about that before i started the video so we're going to just kind of wing it here go to gmail real quick so um there's a couple questions and i want to go ahead and um let's see is this the one view order details continue give me one second here i'm pulling up ebay my ebay uh order history that's what i'm purchase history there we go and hidden huh anyway i think i'll just pull up the this should load what oh interesting that is weird anyway um so let me just go to ebay directly this will be so much easier so i will bring this over to this screen here and let me go ahead and share my screen and pop in here so i bought a it's a dell r810 this is what i bought so this is basically what it looks like uh let's see seven pre-owned 40 core yep this is pretty much it this is the one that i bought uh is it from the same person i can't tell where's the girl in texas yes this is the server that i bought so uh the reason yep this is it so this is the server that i bought uh about a week ago um it was a good deal i figured i would jump on it so it's a dell power dell r810 with four xeon e7 4870 2.4 gigahertz it's 40 cores so it's four 10 core cpus and 256 gigs of ram it has six trays in it it's a pretty nice little server this is a different version of it mine has a little bit of damage here in the front but you know what it booted up it runs fine uh according to the cellar it was pulled out of a production environment and uh it didn't come with any hard drives in it but i happen to have a couple of 300 gig 10 000 rpm sas drives um in the basement so i was able to just plug them in and go about my business but that's what i bought and there was a couple questions let me go ahead and pull up the channel dashboard real quick i won't actually show you the comments um look at the comments so the comment that came in is what are you using this for and i'm using this as a update to my existing environment pardon me i was a burp was stuck so um so i bought it for that reason um i wanted to have a um i've been using cisco ucs for a very very long time and uh don't get me wrong i've had really good experience with ucs and all that type of stuff but i wanted to take it to the next not that i wanted a different server necessarily because i wanted a different server but i had with all of the stuff that i'm trying to demo for the real world networking course all the videos i'm trying to record for that and the vmware stuff that i'm learning and just all the labs that i'm trying to build out and stuff like that i've found out that the servers even though the servers i have are good right they get the job done and they're they're worth the money that i paid for them i'm just to the point now where i need something more uh a more robust compute platform so i had done a lot of research and this was the first server that well this is it was this in an hp pro pro alliance dl580 i think i think is what i was looking at and i'll see if i can't come from can't see what i was so there was let's show up here yes this is this is very similar to the one i was looking at uh dell powerage 910 um anyway it's it's around it's it was an hp proliant servers the other one that i was looking at i did i think it was a dl580 um a g7 is what i was looking at something along those lines and i had toyed around with the idea of buying that and i was like uh i don't know just i'm not a big fan of really really tall servers like for users and stuff like that just not a real big fan of them this is a 2u server which means it's about that tall about four inches or so tall and it's a standard 19 inches wide and about three feet long so i mean it's pretty obvious on how it ties in it's got a it's got six hard drive bays here in the here in the um actually get out of the way it's got six hard drive bays right here and then it's got a couple usb ports sitting right here uh there's a uh db um or a vga port so and on the back side there's a couple of ethernet ports i'm able to plug into and stuff like that so it gives me some some latitude with what i'm trying to play with so that's basically what i went ahead and i did is i went ahead and i bought this server to play around with the technologies and um i went ahead and i got installed esxi on it go ahead and log into the server real quick so it's pretty beefy uh it's all eve on it um right now so let's go ahead and just kind of take a look at this uh it's pretty baller so it's uh it's probably the nicest system i've ever had uh four four sockets ten cores per socket hyper turning is enabled so four times set is 40 with hyper threading it gives you 80 processors and i've got you bet your bottom dollar that says 96 gigahertz 96 gigahertz of cpu 256 gigs of ram and i added in my iscsi sand to it so i've got my environment built out the way that i do so um things are working out pretty well it's a i've only got one vm currently working on it right now it's this eve server which i gave it 32 cpus and 84 gigs of ram which i don't think i'll ever come close to using that much but it allows me to build out pretty robust topologies like this i mean it doesn't look very big or very impressive but when you've got you know any firewall that i want to run is basically going to let me do do the job and so i'm still trying to build this one out i'm i have a client that i'm working with actually i should say i have a few clients that i'm working with that have rather involved network environments and i am looking at growing the lab to kind of mimic their environment because there's a lot of technologies i deal with day in and day out that i need to spend more time on and this is really going to let me do this so i'm also going to be taking the old topology that you guys might have seen from the real world networking series where i build out a very large environment as a matter of fact i don't know if it'll show up here i'll i'll show you the i don't know if it'll show up i'll show i'll paint my my camera around the camera's stuck yeah you guys are going to be able to see that anyway there was a uh i never diagram that i dreamed up probably a couple months ago if not a little bit longer ago than that um where i wanted to come up with a uh a larger network diagram that would allow me to play around with a large implementation basically simulate a big campus land a data center a service provider um a lot of weigh-in connectivity and stuff like that and that was my goal was to have something really robust that i could like start from one side and work my way all the way through and cover a bunch of different things you know palo alto vmware cisco you know the whole nine yards nsx vmware i think as a vmware but and that's what i plan on doing so this this lab that i've got right here is going to help me do a lot of my cisco training for nsx or cisco training for nsx uh cisco training for data center on the nexus platform because i want to do a much deeper dive onto vxlan than i already have matter of fact this is a customer environment as well that i'm working on that's down here that's out of out of sight out of mind that i'm working on but this this is for vxlan multipod down here where this is going to be vxlan um multi-site and a rather involved version of it so basically as somebody that works for a cisco partner and i end up having to play around with a lot of different technologies i'm trying to take my technical skills uh beyond where they're at today and really understanding how this protocol works because i have a lot of customers that are deploying vxlan i have to know it i am becoming more of a a pre-sales engineer where i'm talking to customers about how they're going to do stuff as well as doing the implementation so i'm kind of batting on batten on both sides of the project as well as just being the technical engineer that's implementing the solutions so to me it's more about being that really have a really strong understanding how vxlan works but also being really good at nsx um being really good at vmware and so it takes a lot of effort so the other servers that i have so i've got four other servers the other four servers i'm going to convert them uh so the instances of eve that are running on them currently i'm going to basically take them out and i'm going to kind of massage and adjust their their configurations so that they'll be more of a real world network that you're going to see and not the traditional and i don't mean to bag on anybody or make fun of them or insult anyone but instead of taking a network diagram that you would see from like a cbt nuggets or an ine and just focusing strictly on a particular vertical of technologies you know whether it's route switch security data center i want to be able to build a lab environment inside of eve that is going to mimic the look and feel of an actual corporate network corporate network that's going to have a cloud a cloud presence that's going to have a uh firewalls and vpns and a bunch of other stuff with the intention of work walking through a bunch of different scenarios on that which was the original intent and i don't know if i have the lab pulled up at the moment but as i was going through and testing some of the stuff out i was like i wonder if i could pull that off so like i said in the real world networking video about what it's like to be a real world engineer one topology on its own isn't going to do the job but if you can come up with a bunch of different variations of the same topology with different requirements because you're never going to get the same two clients that want the exact same thing right you're gonna the the protocol can do a particular thing or a pair of features but if you want to take it beyond that you're gonna have to probably tear down that lab and after you get some a particular variation of it working and then spin up a new lab that's going to be able to take care of a different version of that well my goal is to build large enough topologies to where i can build one really big lab and test out both of them so i can do it before and after and stuff like that so that i can see exactly how it all comes together so it's more important to me to see how this stuff works out that way than it is to go out and try to do other stuff like smaller labs with a concentration of a particular vertical or a particular technology so that's kind of how i look at it because the la the more time i can focus on one area and one topology and get it up and running and then work through it and see exactly how it's working and all that type of stuff that's the stuff that you really need as a somebody that's going to be working in production i i do a lot of labbing and i have to because of my job because of the customers that i work with they're expecting me to be able to bring solutions to the table and i could tell you that having come from the last few years of working in a ccna level training company where ccna is the deepest that they went which was detrimental to me as somebody that's gone above and beyond that there i'm having to go back and basically refresh my technical understanding of a lot of things like i remember a lot of things but because i didn't use them for so long and i wasn't challenged i was never the reality of it is my last job as a technical instructor i was never challenged beyond the level of ccna which was always really easy to answer but because i was never challenged beyond that some of the more advanced networking that i'm doing today or i should say just about all the advanced networking i'm doing today has been challenging for me to to work at because i'm i haven't worked at that level in such a long time it's taking me longer than i thought i would to get up there so i'm spending a lot of time spinning up and spinning down labs testing stuff out because somebody that has one of these things there's an expectation that you're gonna know what you're talking about and you're gonna know what to do and so sometimes i have to tell a customer i'm not really sure what to do right now i can take it offline put it into a lab and see if i can figure it out but at the end of the day that's my job is to figure it out so that's one of the reasons why i bought the server it's going to give me a lot of room to grow and if push comes to shove i have no problem buying a second server and another would i spend about 900 bucks uh spend another 900 and buy another server that's just like it and have 180 gigahertz of compute so the possibilities are pretty much endless for me right now and i'm finding higher higher compute capacity is going to benefit me long term so that's basically how i'm looking at it it's going to give me a lot of flexibility as i move forward as well so that's basically how i see it so hopefully i'll be able to get a lot of these labs built and test it out and stuff like that and i'm going to start cranking out some content because i'm really getting back into it i'm actually doing a refresher on vmware nsxt as we speak so hopefully i'll have some i'll start cranking out some content on that here very very soon and then same thing with the real world networking series i'm working on that i was kicking around the idea of doing a powerpoint presentation style delivery on that for the the course the the education that uh and the uh the the technical pieces that you need to know the the course and the design and then have the labs and the testing and migration pieces to it um have them more free form but i don't like death by powerpoint so i'm still working through some of the logistical pieces to it but i'm going to start releasing content here pretty pretty soon which has been pretty busy with getting everything else squared away so i'm going to keep this video kind of short i know we're almost 20 minutes already but um that's basically what it is that i would have been doing really happy with the new server i'm going to continue spinning up these vms and taking a look at it because i'm i really want to know how far i can take if i can get everything up and running in this lab if i get everything running in this lab i want to know what the server can handle is it a even g limitation or is it a vmware esxi limitation i'm going to go lean the the eve limitation not the server because i can probably run multiple instances of eve and be just starting to be all right so i'm looking at playing around with it i'm going to spin all these boxes up and see how they work out and i will report back with my findings so if you guys have any questions for me please let me know in the comment section below i want to thank everybody for stopping by have yourself an awesome weekend enjoy it stay safe out there enjoy your weather i'll catch everybody in the next video

Channel: Rob Riker's Tech Channel

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Length: 17min 36sec (1056 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 12 2021