Geekness

Well, most of you who know me, would say that i to a certain extent are “sort of normal” other would say “Geek, hidden inside something almost normal” .. Well, i think i am many things, but having chose the IT business as my career path, it makes sense i am exited about the opportunities.I am the person who think it is quite normal to have a LAB at home; IT-Lab that is. Having servers, workstations, tablet’s, laptop and set top boxes, are quite normal – and i could not think of is any other way. So what do i have hidden there “back in dungeon”.

Well, first of all – i Somehow ended up with a lot of HP Stuff; am i a dedicated HP-Freak, no way – but i surely believe that their stuff is quite nice, and i would love to have my work laptop in the same brand – since they have never let me down. The Network Consist of:

Asgaard (Main ESXi Server) – the Virtual Server Platform at home.
It is based on a HP ML115 (2 Disks and 8 gb ram / can’t take any more) – but a sweet and nice box. Is running the OS from a USB Stick, and have to disks (Windows and Linux Virtual Appliances) – which does serve the Purpose.

Thor – HP DC8300 – Computer, 4 GB of RAM and used as my daily workstation at home. Nothing fancy; a bit noisy (don’t know why the fan is so eager to cool my CPU) – but i live with it.

Odin – HP DC5300 – Computer, 4GB RAM and used by my kids (for Games and Online Access) – a rather better box, but hey – the kids games nowadays require much more power than the servers (had) 5 years ago…

Loke – More to come

Balder – More to come

Oxie – A Netgear ReadyNAS 4Disk appliance, streaming media to my Netgear Show-center and Serving Files to all workstations (and NFS to the VMware ESXi Server also).

All is covered by Wireless N and Gigabit Network – And connected to Breadbandsbolaget in Sweden.