Network pics thread

Nacho said:
Oh yeah!

One of our vm clusters (running onapp, ewww (before my time))

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OnApp is not so bad, the user web interface is pretty top notch.

Also between all of our Hyper-V and XenServer boxes, we have the following.
112 AMD CPU cores at 2.0GHz
576 GB of RAM
25.75 TB of RAW Disk

Which is exciting to me, when I started six+ years ago, we only had four terminal server 2003 boxes and a crappy desktop used as a mail server. Also an IBM iSeries (AS400) box for our core business system, which was recently upgraded to a Power 720. We also had a Symantec mail filtering appliance, rack mountable sitting on top of a desk.
 
Jay_oasis said:
I wish we could go the the second hand market at work, even recon stuff but we can't :(
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being able to buy second hand is pretty cool sometimes. Certain things we buy new though, because it makes sense. New cores, backup stuff, firewalls, etc, but our edge switching is used, and so are most of our IBM blades, becasue we can buy used one in bulk and they are cheap as dirt. We've got enough redundancy there that losing even a couple is no big deal, and they are cheap enough to keep spares on the shelf. We also bought a used FAS2050 and a bunch of loaded DS14MK2's
 
MikeTrike said:
OnApp is not so bad, the user web interface is pretty top notch.

Also between all of our Hyper-V and XenServer boxes, we have the following.
112 AMD CPU cores at 2.0GHz
576 GB of RAM
25.75 TB of RAW Disk

Which is exciting to me, when I started six+ years ago, we only had four terminal server 2003 boxes and a crappy desktop used as a mail server. Also an IBM iSeries (AS400) box for our core business system, which was recently upgraded to a Power 720. We also had a Symantec mail filtering appliance, rack mountable sitting on top of a desk.
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Instead of playing bf3 to ight you can help me with xen lol! Right !
 
MikeTrike said:
OnApp is not so bad, the user web interface is pretty top notch.

Also between all of our Hyper-V and XenServer boxes, we have the following.
112 AMD CPU cores at 2.0GHz
576 GB of RAM
25.75 TB of RAW Disk

Which is exciting to me, when I started six+ years ago, we only had four terminal server 2003 boxes and a crappy desktop used as a mail server. Also an IBM iSeries (AS400) box for our core business system, which was recently upgraded to a Power 720. We also had a Symantec mail filtering appliance, rack mountable sitting on top of a desk.
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Onapp does what it needs to. Just has a few networking ism's that I don't prefer (mainly dealing with clustered things inside virts)

Sure is cheaper than vmware though
 
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This is the server room in our office. Riverbed WAN optimizer, a cisco router, cisco AP's, PM3 server

But the beasty office is at a job site, complete with revit/exchange/adove livecycle servers but that is something I won't and can't take pictures of.

One of our rooms has fiber lines running directly to HP 8760w Laptops VIA PCMCIA card.

awesome sight to see!
 
Nacho said:
Onapp does what it needs to. Just has a few networking ism's that I don't prefer (mainly dealing with clustered things inside virts)

Sure is cheaper than vmware though
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Onapp BLOWS.

Xenserver all the way, vmware license scheme can suck it. Prefer having the option to run paravirt and full virt anyway, no reason to virt if you can get 2x performance with para and the same features.

Compellent and EMC know how to build storage, netapp is fancy but specialized.

We just bought an EMC VNXe3300 with 3 shelfs of 15k, excited to set it up.
 
mikeblas said:
Fiber to laptops? Why?
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It's a high security goverment project....something I can't get into but they have a seperate network created for these systems to transfer huge files to the server(s). You would understand if you knew the contents.
 
schnell said:
Please don't. NetApp is shit. Compellent all the way.
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NetApp is not shit. I challenge you to find another storage system that can do everything NetApp does in one box without stringing together a series of other boxes together. Compellent has to have another box for NAS/CIFS, which they just added this year. What about deduplication? Does anyone offer a solution like FlexClone? Can you take a snapshot of a volume on Compellent and mount that snapshot and ALL of the VMs that live on it to a host and fire them all up without a storage performance hit? Can you take fully crash-consistent snapshot backups of all the VMs on a volume/LUN in under a minute?

OH SNAP!
 
Captain Colonoscopy said:
NetApp is not shit. I challenge you to find another storage system that can do everything NetApp does in one box without stringing together a series of other boxes together. Compellent has to have another box for NAS/CIFS, which they just added this year. What about deduplication? Does anyone offer a solution like FlexClone? Can you take a snapshot of a volume on Compellent and mount that snapshot and ALL of the VMs that live on it to a host and fire them all up without a storage performance hit? Can you take fully crash-consistent snapshot backups of all the VMs on a volume/LUN in under a minute?

OH SNAP!
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VNX much bro?
 
SpaceHonkey said:
VNX much bro?
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I try not to. VNX is two different systems slapped together and called "unified". Just because you have one management interface that lets you control both systems doesn't mean its unified. VNX is good and fast and everything, just not a fan of the architecture. I'd honestly rather go Compellent, unless I needed FAST cache. But if I needed that I'd just go with a NetApp FAS3000 series and have all the features I could possibly want in a storage system without having to buy additional appliances.... :)

And, yes, I did drink the kool-aid.
 
haunter said:
though now that I am sitting here staring at it. its really starting to bug me

thanks guys.
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Had the inspector swing over, said slide em back 6 Inches are we are clean code wise...


I might be SAN/NAS shopping in a month or two, its obvious I can get alot of opinions here :p
 
MikeTrike said:
We pretty much have no choice, or else I can't get these things approved for purchasing. I'd rather have 2nd hand storage + spare parts vs. having a bunch of old crusty ass servers. :)

However the initial HP DL385's were brand new, and I always buy parts like RAM new. For example the 128GB worth of RAM I added was about $1500 worth of Crucial 8GB DIMM's.
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Are your DL385's just running Xen or do you have some with VMWare too? Those are what I I have been pushing my boss to get. How do you like them? I am guessing they are the 12-core version...
 
IrishMLK said:
Are your DL385's just running Xen or do you have some with VMWare too? Those are what I I have been pushing my boss to get. How do you like them? I am guessing they are the 12-core version...
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We only run XenServer, our Supermicro boxes run Hyper-V. I love them, they've been in production for a bit over a year now. We had some BIOS issues and the system hard locking before we launched them. However we have not had an issue since they got the BIOS updated. There is even a newer version yet that allows for higher speed RAM, and some other various other stability fixes. I might do that later, though I don't want to break something that works fine. :)

They are dual octo cores, so 16x2GHz cores per HV. I should technically be able to pop in 2x16 core chips. However we're more RAM starved than CPU. To be honest a single 8 would probably be fine from our low utilization.

Also, I hate VMware's licensing structure. I pretty much told Dell and any other company that felt the need to keep pushing VMware to fuck off. I'm not saying that it's bad, I just don't care to be tied into their bullshit. Plus I don't need any of the features they offer.
 
i dislike vmwares lack of controller support, I always find myself fighting esxi because harddrives wont show up.. rather annoying.

I am the same, starved for ram now cpu
 
Yes, I always do local. granted im using crap non raid controllers, I wish the support allowed for their usage.

I have an Supermicro X7DBE-X, 2 dual core xeons, 12gb of ram, and 16x 500gb disks on Supermicro Sat2-MV8 controllers
 
Did a little blog update with a new diagram last night:





Lots of stuff not included in the diagram but it serves a purpose- kind've like the network "core" i guess.

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Agreed. We use a ton of Procurve gear at $dayjob. Good stuff.
Just ordered a bunch of MM/SM LC Fiber SFP's for the 1810G-24's we use. They are cheap. Looks like I'm running fiber down to my garage for a remote AP and a few cameras.
 
NickOlsen8390 said:
Agreed. We use a ton of Procurve gear at $dayjob. Good stuff.
Just ordered a bunch of MM/SM LC Fiber SFP's for the 1810G-24's we use. They are cheap. Looks like I'm running fiber down to my garage for a remote AP and a few cameras.
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I just ordered two SM/SM LC SFPs for my 1400-24G and 1800-24G at home. Got them off eBay for 6 bucks each with 10 dollar shipping. 2 metre patch cable from Monoprice. 35 bucks total to play with Fibre. Eventually I want to run fiber to my garage and have my servers in there instead. Cooler, quieter, more room, etc.
 
/usr/home said:
I just ordered two SM/SM LC SFPs for my 1400-24G and 1800-24G at home. Got them off eBay for 6 bucks each with 10 dollar shipping. 2 metre patch cable from Monoprice. 35 bucks total to play with Fibre. Eventually I want to run fiber to my garage and have my servers in there instead. Cooler, quieter, more room, etc.
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what about the condinsation ? I have a garage that i could put my stuff in but the car goes in and out several times a day, was worried about corrosion...
 
dashpuppy said:
what about the condinsation ? I have a garage that i could put my stuff in but the car goes in and out several times a day, was worried about corrosion...
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my gear has been in the garage for about 6 months now- fingers crossed, touch wood etc all still running AOK. fortunately we don't often see temperatures below about -5 but it does get pretty damp on the floor and outside walls- the rack keeps things away from trouble though (so far at least :)

some pics etc from a blog a while back: http://tickett.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/running-power-network-to-the-garage/

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ltickett said:
my gear has been in the garage for about 6 months now- fingers crossed, touch wood etc all still running AOK. fortunately we don't often see temperatures below about -5 but it does get pretty damp on the floor and outside walls- the rack keeps things away from trouble though (so far at least :)

some pics etc from a blog a while back:
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My garage, has a door on it and its all drywalled etc etc..
 
ltickett said:
my gear has been in the garage for about 6 months now- fingers crossed, touch wood etc all still running AOK. fortunately we don't often see temperatures below about -5 but it does get pretty damp on the floor and outside walls- the rack keeps things away from trouble though (so far at least :)

some pics etc from a blog a while back: http://tickett.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/running-power-network-to-the-garage/

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What is your network provider and what speeeeeds do you have? :)
 
Got bored today and went down to the DC and started building out some new cabs. (I been sick thrus and friday so I worked this weekend)
Cisco 3560G and F10 S50
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Business end of the R710 cluster
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