diff --git a/docs/hardware/poweredge-r410.md b/docs/hardware/poweredge-r410.md index e69de29..49f7599 100644 --- a/docs/hardware/poweredge-r410.md +++ b/docs/hardware/poweredge-r410.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +# Dell PowerEdge R410 + +**Quick links:** + +* [Official Spec Sheet](https://www.dell.com/downloads/emea/products/R410_spec_sheet.pdf) + +![Dell R410](../img/r410.jpg) + +The PowerEdge R400 series is a full-depth dual-CPU server platform that usually +has a 4x3.5" drive arrangement, but did have a variant with 6x2.5" drives as +well. The R410 generation uses DDR3 ECC memory and supports the +[Gulftown](https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/29886/gulftown.html) generation of Intel CPUs. + +The backbone of my homelab is made up of two Dell R410's: `romulus` and +`remus`. Together the form the bulk of my system's compute power, storage +capacity, and hosting capabilities. Even with as much stuff as I have crammed +onto them I am still nowhere near to using their full potential. + +| Hostname | Model | CPU | Memory | Storage | OS | +|----------|---|---|---|---|---| +| `remus` | 2010 PowerEdge R410 | Intel Xeon e5500 Series | 48GB DDR3 ECC | 4x WD Red 3TB, RAID 5 | CentOS 7.5 | +| `romulus`| 2011 PowerEdge R410 | Intel Xeon x5600 Series | 96GB DDR3 ECC | 4x HST Travelstar 146GB, RAID 5 | CentOS 7.5 | + +## Romulus + +Romulus is the newer of the two servers, coming from the 2011 series of the +R410. It has a standard 4x3.5" drive configuration and two Intel Xeon x5600 +series CPUs. I've installed a Dell PERC h310 and four 146GB 10K SAS drives in +it, giving it considerably higher R/W throughput rates than its companion. + +## Remus + +Remus will always be special because it was my first server, literally pulled +out of a dumpster my sophomore year of college. Since then I've replaced the +motherboard, drives, backplane, CPUs, and memory (which admittedly does start to evoke the [Ship of Theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus)). + +Remus is older than Romulus, coming from the 2010 generation of the R410. Like +Romulus it also has the standard 4x3.5" drive configuration, however it houses +four 3TB Western Digital Red NAS drives which make up the bulk of the homelabs +data storage capacity. The Intel Xeon e5500 series processors also make it +slightly slower than Romulus, though it has more memory. + +Remus also sacrificed its DVD drive to host a 256GB SSD boot drive which runs the host operating system. + +## Configuration + +My preferred server-side operating system is [CentOS](https://www.centos.org/), +and as such both Romulus and Remus are running CentOS 7.5 on bare metal. + +Both are configured to run [KVM for virtualization](../virtualization/vms.md) and Romulus is setup with an instance of the Open Virtualization Manager (OVirt) to manage the virtual machines running on both hosts. + +See the [configuration section](../config.md) for more information. + +--- + +*Last updated `{{ git_revision_date }}`* diff --git a/docs/img/r410.jpg b/docs/img/r410.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2bb5ae4 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/img/r410.jpg differ