Network pics thread

ChRoNo16 said:
You're going to be busy, for a long, long time. Pictures of the cleanup please!
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Hehe, yeah. I'll try and take pics of a few other locations and what the cleanup will be like. It really is a mess.

In the server room, they positioned the back racks facing the back of the first row, so hot air from the front row is blowing into the back row and those servers are just sucking it in.

Nothing is really labeled so I have to look on the switches for where crap is going, and the network configurations are just about as messy as the physical cabling....
 
LOL! I thought the stuff at my HS was bad...granted we tried to organize it but it ALWAYS got messed up.
 
E7130 said:
Hehe, yeah. I'll try and take pics of a few other locations and what the cleanup will be like. It really is a mess.

In the server room, they positioned the back racks facing the back of the first row, so hot air from the front row is blowing into the back row and those servers are just sucking it in.

Nothing is really labeled so I have to look on the switches for where crap is going, and the network configurations are just about as messy as the physical cabling....
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They have to learn to do hot and cold isles, or at least have proper ventilation. As my boss told me once, it doesnt matter the temperature of the air coming out of a system, what matters is the temperature going in!
 
ChRoNo16 said:
They have to learn to do hot and cold isles, or at least have proper ventilation. As my boss told me once, it doesnt matter the temperature of the air coming out of a system, what matters is the temperature going in!
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Learned that same thing when i was doing a walk through of the campuse server room in Victoria B.C.

I talked to the builder of my house yesterday, he said i could install a bathroom fan in my closet, however he said NOT to just vent it into the attic, he said to buy a "Y" junction and cut the bathroom vent pipe and install the junction so that the hot air flows up from both fans.

One from my server closet * one from the bathroom he said that would be up to code and work perfectly for this application..


Dash
 
here is some new and old pics of the network I have in my apt:

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(the smaller dell is running smoothwall sp3, bottom dell is running my mail server (ubuntu 10.04.3lts with iredmail), top dell is running fusionpbx and freeswitch then other dell is going to be used for powercode billing server then the server below that is my webserver.

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The HP computer is running untangle spam box, the open computer down the bottom of the homemade rack is going to be running pfsense 2.0 for firewall testing, Gateway computer is going to run cacti, then top of the gateway computer that computer is running ubnt aircontrol)

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Ubnt Stuff like nanostation's M2/M5, airrouter,bullet hp m2,my netgear moca adapters, netgear powerline adapters,
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then 4 boxes of cat5 1000ft
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Then the HP next to MPC computer is going to run my IPTV head end for testing, MPC computer running 11.04 server is my userpages server, Gateway computer is for my customer service for my wisp once I get started, other computer is for monitoring the network and its running ubuntu desktop and other computer just a plain simple computer.
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Then my brand new cisco IP phone I just got today from ebay for $37 dollars.
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Then more ubnt stuff like 90 degree sector and nanobridges.

yes this is all in my one spare bedroom at my apt.
 
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dashpuppy said:
Learned that same thing when i was doing a walk through of the campuse server room in Victoria B.C.

I talked to the builder of my house yesterday, he said i could install a bathroom fan in my closet, however he said NOT to just vent it into the attic, he said to buy a "Y" junction and cut the bathroom vent pipe and install the junction so that the hot air flows up from both fans.

One from my server closet * one from the bathroom he said that would be up to code and work perfectly for this application..


Dash
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I would just exhaust it elsewhere in the house, perhaps the basement, and add an intake elsewhere. In summer, I'd just run a little AC in there. That way you're not wasting heat but instead using it to slightly offset the heating bill. I've been toying with different ideas for my home server room. My goal is to not waste any heat that could be used elsewhere. I'm leaning towards a water cooling setup, that way I can recirculate the same air, and just extract the heat from it. Humidity and dust will be easier to control that way.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I would just exhaust it elsewhere in the house, perhaps the basement, and add an intake elsewhere. In summer, I'd just run a little AC in there. That way you're not wasting heat but instead using it to slightly offset the heating bill. I've been toying with different ideas for my home server room. My goal is to not waste any heat that could be used elsewhere. I'm leaning towards a water cooling setup, that way I can recirculate the same air, and just extract the heat from it. Humidity and dust will be easier to control that way.
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i can go up, or out the side of my house. Going out the side, well, no way in hell am i cutting a hole in my brand new house to do that, its much easy to go up into the attic and attach to a vent that is already there, after putting a Y connector in.
 
POE is broken on them... hence why I have them. :D

Still working as a very good L3 switch though!
 
Jay_oasis said:
Part of my CCNA lab

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More to come!
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That is a pretty awesome setup for a lab!!!
What device is sitting on top of your HP Procurve switch? It looks to me like the back of a Sonicwall NSA240 but I could be wrong as I can't see for sure what it is....
 
bmore1777 said:
What device is sitting on top of your HP Procurve switch? It looks to me like the back of a Sonicwall NSA240 but I could be wrong as I can't see for sure what it is....
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Looks like an old RSA appliance...I can only assume he is running PFsense on it tho. I cant think of why considering he has an ASA ??
 
bmore1777 said:
That is a pretty awesome setup for a lab!!!
What device is sitting on top of your HP Procurve switch? It looks to me like the back of a Sonicwall NSA240 but I could be wrong as I can't see for sure what it is....
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thanks for quoting all the pics, we totally would have missed them 2 posts up.

also, looks like a Cisco 881
 
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yup you win +40000 HardOCP points, you can spend them aything you wish. Go to the shops now and report back with what you got! :D

I actually have 2 new cisco 857 ADSL routers but the Draytek seems much better, better sync, better stability!
 
Suprised they beat the Cisco boxes, but I have been using the drayteks foryears for small business cliets and love them
 
Here are some updated pictures of my messy home rack

Front:


Top to bottom:
3 Cisco Routers, 1 will be used for Active Directory domain
PDU
1U Supermicro Atom box - Running Astaro for firewall on 35/35 FIOS

HP/3com V1910-24G - 24 port managed gigabit switch. Turned around because I thought it might help with wiring mess. It didn't

APC UPS - 800W, 2U rackmount. So far I have been very happy with it

2U Supermicro Xeon box - 6026T-URF4+ 2x 5520 Xeon, 48GB RAM. Main VMware system

4U Norco: Supermicro X8SIA-F-O, Xeon X3470, 24GB ram, LSI 9201-16i 16 port HBA, Solaris 11 Express w/ napp-it. One pool for home storage, one pool with SSD cache/log for VMware. VMware pool has dedup/compression on, connects via iSCSI

Back of rack:


Here you can see my messy wiring. Storage box is connected via serial to UPS for auto shutdown. Red cables are IPMI, Yellow (one white for now) are managment, Orange is data/iSCSI. Redundant PS on 2U Supermicro beeps if they aren't both powered, so one is slightly ejected.

More of my new 2U box:






Notes:
Yes, the rack is being held up on the right front by Supermicro drive bay caddies. Wheel fell off when trying to move it, new apartment has deep carpet.

Once I find my low profile bracket, the 2U server will get another dual port gigabit card

None of my current rackmount cases are actually rackmounted. The new Supermicro case and rails are 2-3 inches longer than my rack, and the Norco rails are too wide to fit. So the Norco is just sitting on the bottom, and the Supermicro is on a rack mounted shelf. Still allows me to remove one without touching the other, but annoying.
 
nice how much did the VMWare box cost?

and do I see two red lights on the two drives to the left?
 
@adi

Out of curiosity, do you know how much power your rack draws and how long the battery will last? I'm assuming you have everything connected the UPS.

Thanks!
 
Jay_oasis said:
nice how much did the VMWare box cost?

and do I see two red lights on the two drives to the left?
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It was ~$1500 shipped for the barebones

I haven't looked into why it shows as failed, but they are actually working just fine. It is connected to my 9211-8i, just some signaling somewhere that I need to track down to fix.

For UPS, 45 minutes with just my storage server on it, and currently at 22 minutes with everything but my switch on the UPS, and it hovers around 48-50% capacity most of the time.
 
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timreichhart said:
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Then more ubnt stuff like 90 degree sector and nanobridges.

yes this is all in my one spare bedroom at my apt.
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I tired those dishes for the first time last month... only reason i did was because they were all i could get. I use the NanoStation M5's all the time, hard to get sometimes, lately ive had good luck with vendor stocks though
 
adi said:
It was ~$1500 shipped for the barebones

I haven't looked into why it shows as failed, but they are actually working just fine. It is connected to my 9211-8i, just some signaling somewhere that I need to track down to fix.

For UPS, 45 minutes with just my storage server on it, and currently at 22 minutes with everything but my switch on the UPS, and it hovers around 48-50% capacity most of the time.
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I'm a fan of the AMD barebones.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101323

I now have 4 of them for work, one is being prepped for a VDI deployment at another remote site. :) Terminal servers be gone!
 
pwrusr said:
How loud are these guys?
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Reasonable, it all depends on how warm the room is. Our server room here is about 72 all day long, so the fans are whisper quiet. However if they need to, the fans can jack up the RPM's to "jet-like" if need be. It usually does not change until it hits 75-76 degrees for the incoming air, then again around 79-80, then it just keeps getting louder from there. But under 75 ambient and the fans are super slow, however you can manually set them if you'd like.
 
MikeTrike said:
Reasonable, it all depends on how warm the room is. Our server room here is about 72 all day long, so the fans are whisper quiet. However if they need to, the fans can jack up the RPM's to "jet-like" if need be. It usually does not change until it hits 75-76 degrees for the incoming air, then again around 79-80, then it just keeps getting louder from there. But under 75 ambient and the fans are super slow, however you can manually set them if you'd like.
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thats one thing that attracted me to my 1u Asus server, silent till under load..
 
dashpuppy said:
thats one thing that attracted me to my 1u Asus server, silent till under load..
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To be fair, my boxes have 64GB of RAM, 8 x 500GB 7200RPM SATA's and 2 x 8-core AMD's. They do push out a little bit more heat than usual.
 
adi said:
It was ~$1500 shipped for the barebones

I haven't looked into why it shows as failed, but they are actually working just fine. It is connected to my 9211-8i, just some signaling somewhere that I need to track down to fix.

For UPS, 45 minutes with just my storage server on it, and currently at 22 minutes with everything but my switch on the UPS, and it hovers around 48-50% capacity most of the time.
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If you're using SATA drives, disconnect the sideband cable (which you only need for SAS drives) from the backplane and the red drive error LEDs should turn off.
 
MikeTrike said:
To be fair, my boxes have 64GB of RAM, 8 x 500GB 7200RPM SATA's and 2 x 8-core AMD's. They do push out a little bit more heat than usual.
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mine = 32 gigs ram 2 500 gig drives xeon quad core.. :) and probably cost 1/8th the price, but then again im happy and it's only for home stuff :)
 
Speaking of VDI


My used access floor panels for another near-future project.


I picked up five of these for $250 total, personal toys. :)


Setting up my new HP workstation at the office. Mixed with other work toys.


EDIT: Fixed images.*
 
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