I have finally finished my server closet. It took a while to get the wires run all over the house because our house has all plaster walls which makes it impossible to run wires through the walls easily. I was able to run most of the wires through a cold air return duct and a gap between the chimney that is used for the furnace and the wall which allowed me to run wires from the basement to the top floor easily. All the wires are CAT6. Lets get started with some pictures!

Here is the sketch up model of my closet


Closet after the plaster and shelves were installed


Here are some of the CAT6 wires run. Different colored booties help tell them apart. These are just a few of many to come.


These are 2 of the 3 UPS's that will help keep the servers and network up in the case of a brown out or loss of power for a few minutes.


Here is a few of the servers, a 8 port switch and the FreeBSD router/firewall. The servers from left to right are, a test firewall that has now been removed, a windows box to do windows things, and a LAMP box to act as a test server for home use.


Here is a close up of the shelf bracket with the shelf removed.


I picked up some brackets to act as cable guides and mounted them to the bottom.


Here is the shelf back in position.


On the left is a 16 port Gigibit Switch. On the right is the FreeBSD based firewall/router.


Some of the cables plugged into the network gear.


Underneath you can see the routing of the wires.


Here is the network up and running.


That is the state of the server closet of the last time I took pictures. I have replaced a server since then and added a few more lan connections. Some more pictures will be up soon.