Rack it!

I’ve ordered some rackmount cases from Newegg finally.  They should be arriving today and I’ll try to make a point of posting some pictures with my success (or otherwise!).  I’m getting the Norco RPC-250‘s since they have plenty of space for motherboards and drives and also include two big 120mm fans in the front.  I’ve been running some of the Hitachi 1tb drives in my Unraid and they tend to get a little warm.  My plan is to give them a little more room and hopefully some more cooling.

One of the cases will have a slightly older dual xeon transplanted into it.  I have a small concern about the spacing on this but the case is advertised as supporting EEB or Extended ATX motherboards.  We’ll see and I’ll post pics.  The cpu heatsinks are pretty huge and the processors are all the way at the front of the motherboard.  Could be tight vertically.  This box will be the ESXi server and will run a couple of different things such as some websites (this one) and some customer VM’s for VPN’s.  It’s nice to have a known working config in a VM that you access at the “console” when you need to connect to a non-split-tunnelled VPN.  Also avoids VPN client conflicts.

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