The Recap of the Garage Datacenter Build ....

Pictures are worth a thousand words arnt they, i have typed alot of text and provided alot of descriptions in my previous posts, but nothing beats a good old image & the odd video ;). So below are the images of the datacenter build over the last few months, starting from the days prior to the garage being available to the now currently completed equipment setup.

Its been quite a long road, with lots of challenges but we press on and continue to develop the system, the software and the documentation. I just want to say that im proud of the work that the guys have put in and its great to see what a bunch of guys can do when they work together.

Its a funny thing really, in the corporate world you have 10's of people on a team, dedicated for eight hours a day working on a particular task. People put on suites, and ties and talk *professional* but the funny thing is, dressed in shorts, ripped singlets a will to succeed, good team work and communication, we have done more over the last 8 months then what 10's of people do in the *corporate* world .... go figure. Even now i think we have achieved alot but for the garage datacenter team the true test of success is a system that provides a service that the general public can find useful and are willing to use ....

The road is still long but i think we are on the right path :)

So ok, without further a due, below ... the images ...

	There you have it, 8 months of hard work, configuration, setup and all our servers are up and configured. The database servers, application servers, network elements have been configured and tested. Tweaking is required to get best performance.
	The nortel switches have arrive and are waiting to be installed ...
	Another view of the switches ...
	Arrival of the second rack and our ML570 compaq proliant storage node ...
	Arrival of the first rack ...
	Racking of the first set of servers in the first rack ...
	Moving the two racks out whilst cleaning the garage ...
	Servers and workstations prior to buying the compaq racks...
	Same as above ...
	Purchase of the first set of dell machines to create the beowulf cluster ... This image shows the beowulf machines stacked up in my room. Machines stacked up whilst the garage is being prepared.
	Cleaing up the garage by sorting out all the old pc's. Sourcing materials as spares...
	Mum going through all the items in the garage to see if there is anything she needs to bring upstairs ...
	Taking out all the garage from the garage, the most painful part of the garage datacenter build ...