Network pics thread

Berg0 said:
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I like this idea!
 
Berg0 said:
I've stopped buying electronic toys, i'm selling off most of my network gear actually. Getting more into hobbies that have nothing to do with my career, for the sake of my sanity. I've instead decided to build a massive garage, and started buying motorcycles and woodworking tools :)

not so much network porn, but I've moved more than 2 racks worth of stuff out of my basement and into garagezilla:
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I was going to get back into r/c helis again, i miss my logo 500 and Trex 600 :(
 
I quess this counts as network gear. It even got a network management!

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Dumpster dived 5000VA / 3500W APC UPS that works! :eek:
 
Berg0 said:
I've stopped buying electronic toys, i'm selling off most of my network gear actually. Getting more into hobbies that have nothing to do with my career, for the sake of my sanity. I've instead decided to build a massive garage, and started buying motorcycles and woodworking tools :)

not so much network porn, but I've moved more than 2 racks worth of stuff out of my basement and into garagezilla:
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Don't get me started, I just got the OK for a 32x60 pole building to put my hobby machine shop, car lift, welders, cnc plasma, and toy cars. The next two months are going to be hectic.
 
The Spyder said:
Don't get me started, I just got the OK for a 32x60 pole building to put my hobby machine shop, car lift, welders, cnc plasma, and toy cars. The next two months are going to be hectic.
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awesome! I can't build mine any larger due to zonig restrictions, would definatly build something like that if I was on an acreage though. hopefully installing a 4 post lift next year.

also, presently building a CNC router, they're super fun =)
 
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All this talk of power consumption. I'm doing a lot of work trying to hook everything up to monitors and logging/graphing etc... You can see my server rack is sitting about 130 Watts idle- which isn't bad for the UPS, ESXi server, 24 port gigabit managed switch and 1x WHS 2011 fileserver. Unfortunately I have another 24 port gigabit managed switch running in the house and some a/v gear which idles at probably another 100 Watts...
 
ltickett said:
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All this talk of power consumption. I'm doing a lot of work trying to hook everything up to monitors and logging/graphing etc... You can see my server rack is sitting about 130 Watts idle- which isn't bad for the UPS, ESXi server, 24 port gigabit managed switch and 1x WHS 2011 fileserver. Unfortunately I have another 24 port gigabit managed switch running in the house and some a/v gear which idles at probably another 100 Watts...
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That's awesome! What are you using to do that? I would love to do this for all the circuits in my electrical panel, would be cool. It's 2011, I don't know why electrical panels don't come with an ethernet port for remote management! :D
 
Current network status:
Left rack: servers and storage
Middle rack: power/network and lab server (esxi)
Right rack + everything next to it: lab stuff
On top of right rack: new servers.

Current situation is a bit messy because i'm going to replace my old servers (left rack and lab server in the middle) with some new machines (the ones on top of the lab rack).

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New setup will have:
1x PE2950 + MD1000 storage (2.1 TB SAS15k + 8TB SAS 7.2k)
3x PE2950 VMWare ESXi servers
1x PE2950 Backup server
1x PE1650 Monitoring server for home and datacenter servers (cacti/nagios) + vCenter

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Patch rack for non-server stuff and routers (DSL + Cable backup):
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And off course a little office :D:
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that is just nuts! :D

How does the hot air from the servers get exhausted if they are up against the wall?
 
The monitoring is prob done w/ Nagios and Cacti and just put together in a HTML format
 
I was thinking the same. While the setup looks clean, I would personally replace that with two 42U racks sideways. I'm assuming there's a few inches clearance because of the cables though so it might be enough. Those Dells have pretty powerful fans.
 
I have not made much changes to my setup since my last post, but thought I'd post it again.



And this is a render of the setup, to scale, more or less:



I have been planning out what I want to do for the actual server room so I will be putting it on paper soon. I'm pretty much going stud per stud, and the reason for that is some of my clearances are very tight so I need to ensure everything will be ok once it's done. The electrical panel will probably go on that wall where the raid can is, that's the only place where the clearance will be legal. I may be able to put it where the stairs are but the wall's thickness may not work out. So I'll play with that in AutoCAD.

I'm even debating on not bothering with an electrical panel, and just run several circuits from the main one, though it's full so I kinda want to just run a sub panel, easier.

Also my first time actually applying a real life texture in CAD, so that was fun. Turned out ok, though the brightness is still offset throughout the image, but I did it quickly anyway. Idealy what I should have done is just use a single block then draw the mortar myself so the brightness is consistent.

I also put the lighting anywhere in the CAD, so it's not matching what is currently there. When I do the server room I'll probably have a fluorescent fixture in front and back of the rack.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I have not made much changes to my setup since my last post, but thought I'd post it again.


And this is a render of the setup, to scale, more or less:


I have been planning out what I want to do for the actual server room so I will be putting it on paper soon. I'm pretty much going stud per stud, and the reason for that is some of my clearances are very tight so I need to ensure everything will be ok once it's done. The electrical panel will probably go on that wall where the raid can is, that's the only place where the clearance will be legal. I may be able to put it where the stairs are but the wall's thickness may not work out. So I'll play with that in AutoCAD.

I'm even debating on not bothering with an electrical panel, and just run several circuits from the main one, though it's full so I kinda want to just run a sub panel, easier.

Also my first time actually applying a real life texture in CAD, so that was fun. Turned out ok, though the brightness is still offset throughout the image, but I did it quickly anyway. Idealy what I should have done is just use a single block then draw the mortar myself so the brightness is consistent.

I also put the lighting anywhere in the CAD, so it's not matching what is currently there. When I do the server room I'll probably have a fluorescent fixture in front and back of the rack.
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nice storage arry, I so want one :( Oh well, the closest ill ever get to one, is at work, and @ EMC training in January.
 
It looks cool, but that's about it. I can't put my own drives in it, so as those drives die it's kinda useless. It's too bad really, because it's fully redundant and is fiber channel so I would totally use it for production if I could put my own drives. In fact if I take one of those drives and put it in another computer, it wont work in it anymore. Learned that the hard way. :p
 
MikeTrike said:
What software is this? I assume it's some sort of monitoring software?
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Like Nitrobass24 guessed it's indeed a web page (PHP) which gets it's info from Cacti and Nagios.
Unlike the Nagios default view, this only shows warnings and errors which gives a way better overview. It runs in firefox fullscreen mode and refreshes every 10 seconds.
 
Network I took over... Cisco, IBM, Lenovo, HP, and ...Avaya (voip phones)

Server Room
Shot of behind the first racks:
2 BladeCenter H, HS22s
a few x3650x
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6509NEB under there..
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Nice way to run fiber
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This is the MDF in my tech building, the other buildings are larger, but still messy.
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This is an IDF in another building, all look similar
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I have about 15 buildings, 3-4 telecommunication rooms each. Most have full standing racks and then a few IDFs will be wall mounted racks.
 
CyberNBD said:
Current network status:
Left rack: servers and storage
Middle rack: power/network and lab server (esxi)
Right rack + everything next to it: lab stuff
On top of right rack: new servers.

Current situation is a bit messy because i'm going to replace my old servers (left rack and lab server in the middle) with some new machines (the ones on top of the lab rack).

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That is a hell of a lot of heat being generated with no where to go - or have you knocked a hole through the wall???
 
I asked that question, it has fans on the top. Look at the first post on this page.
 
@E7130:

Wow, Just Wow...

I was kind of shocked to see the fiber splice tray just sitting out like that. Can't say I've ever ran into that one before.

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Gotta love Ebay for cheap patch cables.

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Finally some color coding:
Orange: Lan
Purple: Data
Black: DMZ/No routing/No firewall.
 
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I have a couple of those TP link things 100Mbps media converters. Handy things to have.
 
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