you can replace the 17 power supplies with a server PSU… these should all be 12v DC input with a standard 2.1x5.5MM barrel connectors…
flip them up onto their face, with the rear facing up. if you want to get fancy you could even make a base that integrates a little wedge and rod for the power button.
get at least a 24 port switch and micro ethernet cables.
this could be cleaned up to a single row on one shelf with no visible wires other than the ethernet and power lead running up and to the back. 1 switch under the machines… 1 PSU instead of 17… even one power cord…
or a little cable management at the very least…
I didnt know about server psu so will check that out. 24 port switches are expensive, all 3 switches are far cheaper than those big switches, tho im not sure if I add more 8 port switches ill be doing daisy chaining.
you’re clients are 1gbe… you can get a brand new unmanaged 24 port gbe switch for $50/£56 a fraction of one of those machines… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenda-Ethernet-Internet-Splitter-TEG1024D/dp/B09DPLVLPY/ -- not to mention you can get a used managed switch for less than half that.
if £56 is going to break your bank then get some double sided velcro and clean up your mess. wish you had mentioned your obscenely limited budget…
Budget is not an issue but noise, I sleep next to those machines like between me and them is the table desk u see on the right. So looking at that large switch i think it would have fans and such that would make alot of noise
the switch I linked to is fanless.
Personally I’d buy big power supply at the voltage it needs, get some board with fuses and connect all to that.
But it seems you need few more shelves and pack of zip-ties first.
I only have a passing interest in homelab stuff, but I just wanted to say that I got really excited because I thought those were a bunch of PS2s. Thought this was gonna be some weird FFXI or Battlefront LAN system.
Well at least all do run some graphics so there is some truth close to that
What about a bunch of poe power splitters and a poe switch ?
Get some 2x2 boards, a crown stapler, and window/door screen and make 3 panels big enough to cover the exposed sides. I did that and everyone said it looked cool. And it only cost like $40 because I already had the crown stapler.
You could buy some cable track for the ethernet cables. It’s pretty cheap too! you can even turn the boxes around and practice cable routing to make it nice!
Bonus points if you get a patch panel with keystone couplers to bring small cables to each unit.
If only someone made a distributed power supply box for 19V (like for cctv) you cumulative ditch all the bricks.
Just close the door.
What door?
Rack Mount Bays and PoE kits for them.
How to make this better?
Replace with a real server and virtualize the snott out of it.
Wont work, im running integrated graphics on each seperately
I’m sure you could probably replace all of these with a single mid range cpu lmao.
Yes but I run Integrated graphics on eahc and its required
But why?
To run the required software
You could still do that with a single powerful desktop?
PoE perhaps? If those boxes support it, that would massively reduce your cable clutter
I would suggest to get a rack with shelves, rack mountable PDU strips, and a rack mountable switch.
Stack them sideways and get a patch panel.
Meh, this isn’t what is seems. OP is just being cute. My guess is that he is imaging these hosts from a WDS server or similar. I’ve done deployments that mimic this setup exactly (though considerably more neatly), and its very typical to misconstrue what is actually happening at a glance.
I run Ai bots that require graphics