Mounting the HDs in caddies

Dummy drive blanks

In order to force the airflow over the hard drives, all empty drive bays need to be filled with dummy drive blanks

Installing all the blanks

Blanks installed

Installing rack extenders

No luck. Rails don't work with the rack in the way

OK then, it'll sit on a rack shelf

All done

Added a Chelsio S320E-SR dual-port 10GBe card

Using dual SFP+ fiber transcievers and OM3 fiber to provide 20 Gbps between the NAS and the new VM host