What's going on guys it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and I am super excited about today's
unboxing Holy moly.
Finally I invested in purchase my own server, Ahh Yes, I find a good company that does refurbish
servers with a nice price attached to it.
I'm always purchasing machines under a certain budgets, my budget was under $1,000 with particular
specifications which we are going to go over pretty soon.
And I found server monkey.
What a funny name, but the prices are amazing.
They have so many it's like toy store for IT people.
I wanted to find a 1U server.
So I picked up the Dell poweredge R620 so I'm going to stop talking and we're going
to get into unboxing this guy, and go over some of the ports hook it up with a monitor
and a keyboard and a mouse, because the game plan is and I'm still talking.
The game plan is to install VMware ESXi 7.0 into a flash drive, and then take advantage
of all the hard drives, which I got some hard drives hooked up to this machine.
Awesome, create raid and all that stuff, beautiful right.
Today's all about the unboxing booting it up and next video is going to be configuring
the raid, and, you know, installing VMware ESXi on it.
Okay, so I'm going to take out my, my little pocket knife right here, I'm a, I'm a really
stop talking right now.
And let's open it up,
let's get to it.
All right, I have to give it up to server monkey first time purchasing anything from
server monkey.
And I was super impressed on how they package the server, a better job than what Dell normally
does on their servers Holy Moly so
that's awesome.
Okay, so what comes inside the box, we have a add a protection plan to your recent purchase,
I think, by default you have 30 days, but you are able to increase your 30 days to a
year.
One year two year three year four year.
The prices is decent so pretty good, and you have a server monkey server quick startup
guy they even break it down like.
Remove server from package takes between zero to two minutes.
Expect the unit for potential damage takes about 02 minutes stuff, you know, stuff like
that.
Pretty cool.
I do see a couple of scratches, you know it's a refurbished machine under $1,000.
I mean, seriously, not that bad, and you also have two heavy gauge power cables Yes.
You know how I feel about power supplies, with my servers and I'd love to have two power
supplies, not one redundancy Come on guys, so I got my cheat sheet right here on how
I got this machine specked out so let's go over it so again this is the Dell poweredge
R620, the R620 comes with four ports, eight ports and I believe 12 ports I got the one
with eight ports, meaning, eight drives cool thing is it comes with two processes well
actually it comes with two CPU sockets.
You can either get one save money, or you keep both of them I actually got two processors,
and it is a eight core Intel Xeon processor E5 2660 series 64 gigs of memory.
We actually have the H710 RAID controller all 8 ports for drives are filled up with
300 gigs, 10k RPM SAS 2.5 hard drives.
I know I wanted to get one to two terabytes but the price was going to go more than $1,000
again, I tried to stick in my budget, stay on that budget.
What else, what else did I get.
It comes with one
Dell remote access controller ports.
It comes with one Dell Broadcom 5720 quad port, one gigabit network card.
Awesome.
Ahh.
Beautiful.
ahh.
And last but not least we have to Dell 750 watt power supplies.
you know I love my power supplies I love to have them in twos and yeah that's it, let's
just take a moment and look at this beautiful server.
Awesome.
I just got to look at it, beautiful VGA got a serial port.
You got the Dell remote access controller port, you got two USB ports in the back I
don't know the bus speed but I'm, I'm kind of assuming maybe 2.0.
And then you have two additional USB ports in the front, that's probably 3.0 or 2.0,
not too sure.
Power button right here
also comes with a CD or DVD ROM drive, most likely, I'm not going to use that.
And then you have all the hard drives awesome so you take one of these hard drives out,
look at that.
Cool.
300 gigs, probably upgrade these hard drives, you know, when I get some money in the pocket
in the budget I probably upgrade the hard drives to maybe solid state drives but that's
going to be in the future.
All right, so let's hook up the monitor the keyboard the mouse power supply to boot this
guy up.
Going to go grab the flash drive with my ESXi version seven boot into that and make sure
it boots up, make sure I'm able to see all the hard drives.
And then the next video is all about configuring and configuring the RAID controller and installing
the operating system so let's get right into that right now.
All right, so as soon as I put this guy in it booted up.
Looks like it's doing good.
It's actually initializing the Dell remote access controller, stating that is done, that
is always a good thing I don't know if you guys could see it.
Let me see if I could think you guys can hopefully see it.
It's booting up.
Sounds good sounds awesome going to press f2 real quick so I can get into the system
boot 64 gigs, it looks like it's reading the memory.
I know the first thing I need to do is make sure that the BIOS firmware is up to date
so I got to push out all that stuff right now it's preparing to into the system setup,
so the boot mode right now by default is set up to BIOS, I might switch it to UEFI and
the reason why is because when I create the bootable flash drive right here.
I actually burn it into a UEFI mode.
So if I do BIOS it's probably not going to work.
I'm gonna leave it as BIOS right now and then see, I don't have the flash drive insert it
so it's not going to view it.
But I have two flash drives.
One flash drive is this guy right here the SanDisk is the one that I'm actually going
to take the VMware operating system and install it.
Right.
And this is what I'm going to boot into to install the operating system.
And the eight drives that I have here I'm going to create a raid, out of all eight drives
and good to go so I'm running the operating system on a flash drive.
Taking all eight drives and using it as a storage container to store all my VMs.
Alright so I'm going to stop the video right here, I'm going to play around with the server
a little bit more on the next video, we're going to go over booting into these flash
drives installing the operating system configuring the raid setting and all that stuff together,
but hopefully you guys enjoy this unboxing, I am super excited that I got this machine
Finally I own my own server.
Right.
And, and that's it.
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Peace out.