Show us your rack! (No not that one!)

Yamaha and pair of Altec Valencias.
My daily listeners.

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That's not a rack...

THAT'S a rack.

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Is that a picture of a Lego-man who just stood on another piece of Lego?

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In Rick’s world, the Lego figures step on human body parts.

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lol

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My shelving could use a clean…

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The whole house is a mess, but this is the one room I must keep clean.

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Show-off!! :slight_smile:

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Details please…. Rack model, color coding, devices etc.. Share…. :blush:

Rack and cable tray were chatsworth parts left over on a project. Starting from the bottom - my old ESXI 5.5 server still running strong after 12 years - it hosts all my Linux servers and a couple of windows guests. Then an APC SMX750 - also quite old but very reliable. Above that is the adjacent theater equipment (AV receiver, a PS3 - for 3D movies, an Apple TV, harmony hub and an HTPC). Then above that is a rack mount PDU, then HDMi distribution to several common areas around the house.

The 2 48-port switches above that serve all the data outlets I put in around the house - each wall plate gets a port (or 2) out of each switch. Orange and Blue to color code.
The 24-port Poe switch above that serves the WAPs, Cameras, and powers a couple of ceiling flush-mounted echo dots. These are color coded yellow.

The (3) managed switches were bought cheap new in box on eBay.

Above that are the coax and cat6 patch panels, one more small UPS, and then the small electronics on top - router, RPi, HDHomeRun - and the ST hub has been replaced with HE… the router also recently replaced with an edge router.

Coming in off the cable tray - blue is cat6, black is coax and HDMI, white is speaker cable.

On the back wall is the driveway sensor (Dakota Alert) and the Fios ONT is on the right wall.

I built this out about 7 years ago when we built the house. Quite a few nights were spent in a sleeping bag on the floor just outside that room.

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My Rack got a minor upgrade this week, I added a 2nd NAS (QNAP TS-453a) that was a work freebie. I had 20TB worth of misc sized disc lying around and shoved them all in as a JBOD volume, and my Synology DS1621+ can now be fully backed up.

I also mounted my switches on a horizontal shelf so I could fit the cheap 2.5Gbe x8 + 10Gbe x1 Managed network switch, I ordered, in (hasnt arrived yet). I have a bunch of new Cat6 network cables coming this week so I can tidy things up a bit more - the Hubitat & Hue network cables are too short for my new arrangement, and many of my cables are aging cat5.

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One day I will finalise my cable management.... (more than I already have...)




Or if you want the "evening" scene....

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