What on earth am i supposed to do with this

It's winter, use it as a space heater.

Sell it on eBay. The Cisco UCS stuff requires fabric interconnect switches to even function and you’ll need lot of power and cooling to just turn it on much less actually use it.

You can use the money from the sale to buy some NUcs or miniPCs and do some cool shit.

In the back of the UCS chassis are 2x fabric interfaces. If they're 6324 you can use the chassis as is, if they're anything else (2204 etc) then you need a corresponding UCS fabric switch.

The B200 M4s aren't ancient (mostly), they're xeon v4 compatible, but it's a hungry beast.

Acquire first, think later.

That disk shelf might be useful (if it’s not riddled with random DRM lockout) Those blades are Xeon v3/v4 so it should have relatively high resale value. ~300-400 bucks for the whole thing if they’re configured, about 50-60 bucks per blade, but the bare chassis with the blades with no ram or cpu are still around 300 bucks. So you might be able to skim off the ram and CPU’s (2 per blade) and get a decent profit off of that.

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The blades might have some decent CPU and ram. Grab a $100 'x99' dual CPU board off AliExpress and build yourself a cool little workhorse. I had those same blades and they had xeon E5 2690 v4s and 256gb ram.

E5 CPUs have come down in price greatly, but ram is still expensive.

Check out miyconst on YouTube for board recommendations

Run Crysis benchmarks. Make your garage toasty. Regret your decisions when the power bill comes.

Get familiar with the hardware. Role play as a systems admin. Scrap it for money.

Fire it up before winter kicks in ;)

24tb HDD definitely useful save them

youd need a set of FIs for the chassis to be honest bin it. Its not worth it foir power to compute

Ok so what you have there is a 5108 chassis with 3 B200 M4 blades (they are all end of life the chassis isn't if its an AC2). What most people are saying here is correct about fabric interconnects.

However, there is a thing called a UCS Mini which has integrated Fabric Interconnects model FI-6324. You would need to look at the rear of the chassis and identify if you have IO modules such as a 2208xp which would require external fabrics like FI-6248 otherwise you would need to source some FI-6324's on Ebay or Amazon.

Once you have a set of Fabric Interconnects you can fallow the 62XX or 63XX setup guide to reconfigure them over a serial connection, it's quite easy.

Hope this helps.

Keep moving it until you have little cuts on all your fingers. Thats what I do.

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I threw mine on a pallet and sent it to a recycler.

I ran a UCS like that for years at a previous job. Recycled them years ago. You are missing the fabric interconnects so you can’t hook it up to any storage

Do you own a boat?

LOVE THESE! First enterprise hardware I learned in my home lab experience!

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Piss off your neighborhood with noise, and burn money on electricity.

Can I haz those laptops sitting on the floor though?

Ahh something near and dear to me. Love UCS first pull out the power supplies chances are they're only 200-240v not great if you're in North America. There was a guy selling 90-240v auto ranging supplies on eBay for about 25 each.

Next you'll need some fabric interconnects. That allows you to to hook this up to the network. They're green 1u/2u switches if you don't have them you can buy some 6248s for cheap they'll work up to firmware 4.2. If you need >4.2 firmware then look for a set of 6332 switches on eBay I got 2 of them for $25 in the summer a couple ports on the front were mangled 5 mins with pliers and it was good as new. What Generation of B200s M4 work up to 4.2 and >=M5 work in 4.3

UCS can be very overwhelming for a newbie but it's a really powerful platform. I hope you get it powered up its a great piece of kit.

Stop buying/getting junk that you don’t know what it is let alone why you would want it.

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I thought it was a JBOD. make it a storage server

Bring it back

Kill your average power bill lol

Dumpster fire

Recycle it

Makes a great Paperweight.

Create a massive spank bank 😎

This is not homelab material, sell it to much hassle getting this thing online. Buy some nuc's

Team lift?

Go brrrrrrrrr

These shelves and SAS disks can be repurposed and reformatted to work in Linux/windows. We are running some of these jbod with truenas with zfs.

Contact clabretro on youtube and see if he will take it. He loves that old stuff

Yeet it as far as you can!

While you were enjoying your homelab I STUDIED THE BLADE

Cool you case use the blade server as electric heating

Warm up your room with that :)

Tannerite.

Give it to me lol

Sell it to electronics recycle dude

Sometimes ewaste is just that

Nothing as they run best on 3 phase 208v power 🤣 probably not the most cost effective product to run at home

Heat your house and drown out the voices telling you to throw it away with the noise it makes?

Get a second job to power it and slowly go deaf.

I have one and it sounds like a 747 taking off on boot. It also draws a ton of power. Sell it and get something more practical, get a dell rack server for vm’s or spend the money on a nice NAS.

Jesus christ, how do y'all come into gear like this? I'm in north Texas and haven't found a damn thing just being "given away".

figure out what the specs of the blades are, might be worth a good bit in parts if it has high end xeon + a lot of ram