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This weekend we worked on some of the server upgrades I’ve been planning for so long. Unfortunately I’ve been having trouble with the hew RAID card I got for my SAN, so I wasn’t completely ready to do everything I had hoped. I ended up working more on the RAID card, and a volunteer helped me move two of our servers into new cases. Good News Productions donated a server rack to us last year, so this year I got some rack-mountable cases to put our servers in.

Here’s what inside the server rack looked like before:

And this is after:

I know, not a HUGE improvement just yet. The two rack-mounted cases don’t show up too well in this pic either. The two remaining towers in the rack should be gone soon. The one of the right will be converted to a VM, and the one on the left gone forever. The old 486 on the left is our voicemail server. If everything works out well, it should be replaced by a VOIP server very soon. Then I need to work on cable-management, and we’ll be set.

In case you were wondering, yes, our “server room” is my office.

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