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Anybody want to take a guess at how well a 6700K/Z170 would stack up to an old X5680/X58 combo?

#3, I still haven't worked up the balls to do this haha. :rolleyes:

This is some legit network pr0n, good to see something other than home setups :cool:

Needs more flash.

No point, they're in there temporarily for pre-configuration and a POC--all the ears were left in the boxes.

Some Foundry porn: Yes, those are 10GBase-ER optics :eek:

Why not both? :D

To be honest, it's not even set up yet. This is an eval system (one X-Brick) that we've got to kick around for a while. We're going to move some high IOPS workloads over to it from a VNX 5400 and see if it makes a measurable improvement. This isn't the first one we've set up though, they...

Warning: Storage porn incoming EMC VNX 5200 and XtremeIO in the UCS lab, front-ended by a VPLEX metro in the next rack over.

That was the secondary reason why I haven't gotten around it it yet, I don't trust my soldering skills enough to make that 45 degree jump between pads.

I haven't set them up yet, I'll get around to it on a rainy day probably, but we don't have any Juniper gear in house for lab use. I've used the pulse client before and had no complaints.

They've all got their quirks I suppose. I don't want to say the ASAs are without fault, but I'm certainly more comfortable with that platform over the others. We use the Fortigates for some of our internal infrastructure and they seem to do a pretty good job, but the remote access VPN...

I work for a VAR now, gotta be smart on all the gear we're slinging :)

And some cabling pr0n: This is a rack from a previous employer, mostly user ports and patch panels to other racks on the row. Time, neglect and sloppiness are how it arrived at this state. I gutted the entire rack, replaced some switches and installed shorter cables (2ft vs 7-10ft) and some...

It's been a while since I've posted in here, but I thought I'd share a few pics of my "permanent" lab rack at work. I rotate other gear in and out as needed, but this stuff stays put: Top to bottom: Aruba S3500-24P PoE Switch Cisco 2950-24 Switch (Management Net) Aruba 3200 Controller Aruba...