Step by Step set up one mining farm in small and medium size

[amirheavy666]

Dear bitcointalk Team.
i this topic please write Step by Step set up one mining farm in small and medium size.

for example is it true?

1- 10 miner S9j : 5 miner is for one person and 5 other miner is for other person

equipment :

1- ten miner
2- ten Power cable
3- one switcher for 10 or more Lan
4- one router (need or no need ??)
5- one internet modem

Ten miner connected to switcher and then switcher connected to modem ? right? but how Privilege Level to each person that can see his/her miners config with remote access ?

please explain with detail, Thanks.

[PassThePopcorn]

You'll need to do some research yourself, look into VLANs an VPNs.
pfsense and openvpn should be good software to look at.

[WhyFhy]

I second PFSense/FreeBSD if your savvy in larger operations, But as basic as the question is I think that might be a bit much for now for OP
Get one modem
One switch 24 port plus should be all you need
if you need wifi go ahead with the router

[Artemis3]

What about the power requirements? Do you have the circuits with the appropriate capacity? Asic miners are not toys, they need air conditioner type circuits for each (or two in this case) of them. Something like 230v 15a per S9...

4 and 5 can come bundled together. The router can probably do NAT and some firewalling, and each miner should have a non default password in both web ui and ssh access.

If you follow the advise and use a nice embedded router with OPNsense* or such, you can also add redundancy, failover, firewall, etc, etc. Its not strictly needed, but please try to keep windows computers away from this lan. Get a nice linux laptop for anything you could possibly need setting up things there. Don't let your old habits ruin your dreams, too many people get malware because of this.

*Because Netgate owns pfSense. Think when Oracle owned Openoffice, leading to Libreoffice, because (new) owner didn't let the project grow...

[mikeywith]

1- 10 miner S9j : 5 miner is for one person and 5 other miner is for other person

Depending on the type of agreement you have with the other person/s , sometimes access to the miner is not required per se, meaning that the owner of the miner will be sastisfied with just watching the hash-rate on the pool side, while the host will take care of any updates that needs direct access to the miner, on small scale this works just fine I have seen many people do it this way.

if however access to the miners is a must then here are some options.

1-Remote desktop.
2-VPN.
3-Port forwarding.

you need to DYOR on each and see the pros/cons , if you go with VPN consider PiVPN installed on either a Raspberry Pi or a cheap PC.

3- one switcher for 10 or more Lan

for 10 gears, you will need at least 11 ports on the switch , keep that in mind you  always need gears number + 1 or +2 if you want hook up any other equipment such as a Pi or a PC, so go with 16 port.

4- one router (need or no need ??)

If your modem is capable of routing ( probably is ) then you don't need a router.

in the near future I will make a "Step by Step" guide on remote access to miners and privilege management, no promises as of when , all the info you need are available online tho, so the guide will be made just to make other people's life easier.