Recent content by dcpuser

Yeah for switches I'm doing similar. Not sure about the 2U appliances like the routers, firewalls and load balancers. I have LTM 6900s and 6400s from F5, ASA 5585Xs and various 1U ASA firewalls, ASR routers. I've attached a link to a pic of how I see my new network racks will look. The new...

Out of curiosity for those of you with data centers do you stack your gear (firewalls, routers, load balancers, etc) on top of each other in your network racks or do you leave at least a 1U spacing in between devices? I'm thinking of doing from bottom up (heaviest to lightest) etc 1U...

I'm curious, how do you guys split your HA/redundant network appliances? Do you tend to stack them and put them in at least one rack or do you prefer to split them between 2 racks IE, redundant firewalls, redundant routers, hardware loadbalancers, etc. I'm currently planning out a new network...