My SECRET Server Room Project

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The creator tours and builds out a new dedicated server room after outgrowing a server rack in his master-bathroom closet, which tripped breakers and ran hot. The new room has two internet connections (five-gig and one-gig, as he states it), dedicated AC, and a glass wall facing his studio. He rebuilds a rack — installing rails backwards and redoing it — then opens his new 45Drives servers: each has, as shown, a Xeon Silver 4210 CPU (10 cores, 20 threads), 128 GB of RAM (four 32 GB sticks), storage controllers, 10-gig SFP ports, dual power supplies, and two 250 GB SSDs for the OS. After racking the heavy servers with help, he installs the HDDs and SSDs. For networking, each of the four servers has four 10-gig SFP interfaces (16 total, plus gateway ports), so he buys a MikroTik CRS326-24S+2Q+RM switch for about $500, which he says offers 24 10-gig SFP ports and 320 gigabits per second of non-blocking throughput. A Cisco user, he configures MikroTik via CLI instead of the GUI: learning that ‘print’ replaces ‘show’, removing ports from the default bridge, creating LACP bonds (802.3ad) for each server and for a two-link bond to his existing MikroTik switch, adding the bonds to a single bridge for hardware offloading, and setting frame types and PVID to make ports trunks or access ports. A sponsor segment promotes Contrast Security’s Contrast Assess IAST tool for finding vulnerabilities in code and pipelines.

Key takeaways

New server room replaces a bathroom-closet rack; it has 5-gig and 1-gig internet, dedicated AC, and a glass wall
45Drives server shown: Xeon Silver 4210, 128 GB RAM, dual PSUs, and two 250 GB OS SSDs
MikroTik CRS326 switch chosen: about $500, 24 10-gig SFP ports, 320 Gbps non-blocking per the creator
MikroTik bonds (LACP/802.3ad) aggregate each server’s four 10-gig links and the inter-switch link
On MikroTik, a bridge, frame-types, and PVID settings create trunks and access ports; document configs, he warns

Episode details: published October 2, 2023 · 16:31 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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