Network pics thread

You can gain back 4 TB's by deleting that crap ass movie captain american winter soldier:D

Ethereal_Dragon said:
Is there a way to specify the picture size, or post just thumbs with a link to the full size pic? Sorry for the huge pictures.



Current Network storage pool on the server is 14.2 TB, only 10TB free and shrinking.

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Couple pictures of an install I've been working on - this cabling is for Ubiquiti APs and cameras, customer bought a 48 port Ubiquiti switch, will be installing another switch and more cabling for the shop/warehouse.



 
My home network. A couple servers for media and Untangle UTM. Cisco 1921 for home firewall. A friend and I did the structured cabling. Not the cleanest half-rack, but I change stuff a lot. Switch is Gig and PoE. Multiple cameras, IP phones in house, media players, etc.

I needed a separate public switch (Netgear FS105) when I moved into this house because the ISP only gives me two public IP addresses, and and my Cisco switch was taking one of the MAC addresses. So I had to do away with a vlan and install a second switch.





 
Comcast 105/10, ERL, Aruba AP (work), 8 port Trendnet switch

4790, h97, 32GB running 2012r2 DHCP and DNS

 
Valnar said:
My home network. A couple servers for media and Untangle UTM. Cisco 1921 for home firewall. A friend and I did the structured cabling. Not the cleanest half-rack, but I change stuff a lot. Switch is Gig and PoE. Multiple cameras, IP phones in house, media players, etc.

I needed a separate public switch (Netgear FS105) when I moved into this house because the ISP only gives me two public IP addresses, and and my Cisco switch was taking one of the MAC addresses. So I had to do away with a vlan and install a second switch.





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Ya know they make these things called... patch panels right?
 
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A little background, I started this job dec 2014, and this is the state of most of all the cabling in this place. Not the worst I've seen from pics online, but far from anything decent. I didn't do the best job afterwards, and that was still a WIP, but it was the first stage of my cleanup (and yes I did move the fiber to the Cisco Catalyst prior to finishing that evening).
 
I don't get why people install the wire managers wrong. You should never have to pass ONE switch to get to ANOTHER switch when using a wire manager. You should be able to go from patch panel, into wire manager, into the switch, no overlapping something else.

Also people who use cables way too long (don't use a 7' patch cable when a 2' is fine)

Or another thing i see... the use of a small 6" patch cable to go from the patch panel to the switch... why use wire managers on one side of the switch (under it for instance) but none on the other side (above it). If you are going to wire manage, you do it above and below...

I know you probably took that over from someone but man... it's amazing how some people have jobs in IT when they are so messy. How do they ever support the systems if there is an issue or troubleshoot cabling
 
Bought a new toy this week...

A new top of rack switch/layer 3 router capable of QinQ. It's a 3COM 4800G 24 Port Switch.

At the moment its just doing OSPF with my Mikrotik cloud core and some basic layer 2 stuff between the aggregated fibre ports and my servers.

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Hello guys

nice setups
this is my Datacenter

@liamalxd
Nice to see that somebody likes also MikroTik :)

From up to down
Router
Switch for Servers
Switch for ISCSI
Switch for ISCSI
KVM-Switch
ESXi Hypervisor
ESXi Hypervisor
ESXi Hypervisor
Soon the new FC Server
Backup Server for ESXi and the Storage Server
iSCSI Server
Storage Server

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@liamalxd

you see right it's a 10G uplink :D
it works very fine and i would never switch back to lacp with that router (loss of speed)

@Cerulean

In summer i get up to 40 degree, but it's already working since 2 years :)
 
Ich need 10G because i have multiple Subnets which are routed by the Mikrotik Router.
With 10G the bandwith is sufficiently.

@Cerulean
You're right
It's time that the switches should
be affordable for everybody.

The time between 100M to 1G was much less than the actual generation change.
 
Cerulean said:
They need to make 30 - 100 USD consumer-grade 10GbE CAT7 desktop network switches already :mad:

I want to have 10GbE connectivity. Why? Just because! :D
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Full line speed? LMAO, keep dreaming. Maybe full fabric shared with a tiny buffer. It will be some time before we see 10GbE in the desktop let alone cheap line speed switches. Most shitty desktop PC's would have a hard time feeding that kinda sustained transfer for very long. Honestly it is a bit of an overkill. (now)

A good 24 port SFP+ 10GbE switch goes for like 7k+. You can get one of those and a few 10GbE SFP+ HBA's for 10GB goodness. Make sure you are running SAS/SSD HW raids in your machines to keep up with the NIC.
 
Moved my stuff into a "rack" ;)


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This was all stacked on a desk somewhere. I realized that the letter trays/holders I had sitting full of papers fit each device perfectly, had holes on the sides and plenty of clearance. This was a lot cheaper than buying a small rack, rack ears and shelves for each device.

Top to Bottom:

-UniFi AP Long Range 802.11N
  • My MacBook is the only AC device on my network, I wouldn't mind AC, but it's not needed.
-HP 1910-8g-PoE
  • The best fanless PoE switch ever. OK interface. I wish it was an 8 Port 3560G :)
-D-Link DGS-108 Unmanaged Switch
  • Used to split up WAN IP's that are provided, when I need to use my Cisco gear.
-Lanner Inc FW-7535 (pfSense)
  • Intel Atom D510 1.55Ghz
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 64GB Kingston SSD
  • 6GbE Ports
-DCM 476 DOCSIS 3.0 Modem
  • 55 Down/10 Up, 3 Public IPs
-OOMA Telo
  • Super cheap, Super Easy. I know there are others, but this one works for us!
-QNAP TS419PII+
  • 4 x 2TB RAID5 (5.36TB Usable, ~400GB Free)
  • Storage and backup, syslog, documentation and product keys(Using GLPi and DocuWiki), torrents and runs crashplan client to backup NAS to cloud. Next upgrade to 4x3TB drives.
Everything here is meant to be SUPER quiet as it is right next to me, but I still wanted the most flexibility. Everything is fanless, except for the NAS. The fan and the drives are a little loud(relatively speaking), but it's tolerable. I can't STAND fans and would go nuts if I had my Cisco gear on all the time.

As can be seen, Only uses ~90W total!

My next purchase will be an Intel NUC to run some basic services on. Mostly monitoring and logging, the UniFi Controller and to offload most of the duties that the QNAP is doing. Probably Win2K12

My REAL lab is a mess of Cisco gear and random server hardware stacked on a pile that I'm finally getting a rack for.
 
How are you liking that HP 1910-8g-PoE?

It's been a huge tossup between the 1920-8G-PoE+ and the HP 2530-8G-PoE+ for me.

Both seem pretty similar, except that the 1920 is "smart managed" and has layer 3 lite abilities, and the 2530 is "fully managed" and is L2 only. I can't make up my mind, but I'm leaning on the 2530. The latter also has an external power supply too (which has pros/cons, honestly I'd rather have it internal). Honestly though for my setup I don't need layer 3 lite functions. I plan on using the web gui either way, but curious if it's any better on a fully managed switch than their smart one. The CPU / RAM in the 2530 is also better, but switching capabilities themselves are apparently identical / pretty similar.
 
colinstu said:
How are you liking that HP 1910-8g-PoE?

It's been a huge tossup between the 1920-8G-PoE+ and the HP 2530-8G-PoE+ for me.

Both seem pretty similar, except that the 1920 is "smart managed" and has layer 3 lite abilities, and the 2530 is "fully managed" and is L2 only. I can't make up my mind, but I'm leaning on the 2530. The latter also has an external power supply too (which has pros/cons, honestly I'd rather have it internal). Honestly though for my setup I don't need layer 3 lite functions. I plan on using the web gui either way, but curious if it's any better on a fully managed switch than their smart one. The CPU / RAM in the 2530 is also better, but switching capabilities themselves are apparently identical / pretty similar.
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I've always heard good things about the HP 1910 series switches for small business environments. I really liked the HP 1810 switches that I had rolled out. So I bought a 1920-16G here a few weeks back just to look at and try out. I haven't done much with it yet, but it's easy to work with in the web GUI and has a lot of features. Very similar to the Cisco SG300 series.
 
I am hoping to find a 16+2sfp(independant of the other 16, maybe SFP+) full layer2 that is not super loud and not a full width 1u.

Would love to have one with POE, L3 lite and SFP+
 
My home network.

Cisco 3560G, doing switching & inter-vlan routing.
Cisco 1921 doing ADSL bridging.
PFSense router doing PPPoE authentication, Firewall, traffic graphing etc.

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Not to be weird, but your GPS exif data is in your picture still.
 
how do you resize the picture?
the pictures that i posted, i did the resize by myself, but can the forum do it?

Im pretty much that old, that i used news groups and IRC and not that familiar with forums :)
 
Pic resolution is fine for me. valve1138 is just a whiner still using an 8" netbook. Go [H]ard or go home. :D :D
 
No one has posted for a while, so here is what i am rocking right now...

Its down right basic compared to my home server room, but i literally had to carry this equipment to this site in my backpack. Every ounce counts.
MBR1400 doing multi wan, 871 doing IPSEC back to my main site and a few SPA2100s for Voip ( I have to call my wife! :D) . The CF-19 is hosting movies for my team on a bunch of 1TB and 2TB USB HDDs.



And here is one of my phones in its "steel hardened, water/dust proof" cases. (the rock under the cord is a custom counter-weight!)
 
.Gunfire said:
You on deployment or for work?
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Yes.....

With the price of 871s these days they are disposable. I used to mount all the hardware into pelican cases, but i find it easier to just travel with everything loose..

Anyone else have a travel network? (AnyConnect/openvpn clients do not count.:p.)
 
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Here is an install I am finishing up. Buddy moved his company to a newer and larger building so I handled cabling and some of the CCTV work.

From top to bottom -
Netgear dual WAN router - Time Warner cable for internet, Windstream metro ethernet for voice traffic (hosted VoIP)
Windstream handoff for the metro ethernet circuit
24 port patch panel
48 port Ubiquiti switch for APs and Cameras
24 port HP POE switch for phones and desktops
2 patch panels (existing cabling for office)
There are two IDFs in the warehouse and shop areas, a 24 port Ubiquiti switch will be installed in each IDF.
 
SysOps said:
Yes.....

With the price of 871s these days they are disposable. I used to mount all the hardware into pelican cases, but i find it easier to just travel with everything loose..

Anyone else have a travel network? (AnyConnect/openvpn clients do not count.:p.)
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im actualy working on a small trailer, with a 24U Rack inside (Will post pictures later)

At work i did a flight case with 2 XW6600 and a DL380G5 with a switch, E1 Multiplexer some custom hardware and a Firewall, for a project.
 
rma said:
im actualy working on a small trailer, with a 24U Rack inside (Will post pictures later)

At work i did a flight case with 2 XW6600 and a DL380G5 with a switch, E1 Multiplexer some custom hardware and a Firewall, for a project.
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Are you going to shock mount the rack? I worked on a high mobility unit that used "wire rope isolators" and it helped a lot. http://www.vibrationmounts.com makes some nice ones.

Then again, when i put a full Comm Suite in the bottom of a tour bus, i used 1 inch rubber isolators and it worked fine.
 
Yes the rack will be mounted with shock mounts, i work for a big defense contractor where i live and we sometimes throw away shock mounts, or end up with the wrong types.

The shock mounts that i got used on a ship så they are pretty good :)
 
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