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Nice, I knew there had to be something like that. Any recommendations?

One of my clients has a variety of smaller sites that have a need to reboot a locked router from time to time. Is there any type of device I can place out there to be able to reboot say a Cisco 2800 series when internet is up but the router is locked?

How do those MoCa adapters work? I have coax distro to every room in my house but no cat5/6. I'd love to be able to drop some of these around and get some of my devices off of wireless

Great looking setup. What TV Stand is that?

I'd like to hear your thoughts on the UCS-B, we're looking at getting a chassis or two

Wow, I appreciate all the info from everyone here and will keeping reading over this. Regarding the zero client use case. I've read a reference architectures from VMWare that seem to put us in there, here is an outline of what we have now: Type of desktop would be: -80% of users would be...

You're talking to the helpdesk support (along with the one part time staffer), phone tech, jr network/server/storage admin, application specialist, and chief broscientist.

We do have a vSphere deployment on 3 Dell hosts on Equallogic PS4000 for storage running ~25 Server VMs. We could probably make some storage space to play with but do not have processing or memory overhead currently. We'd be looking at minimum 1 full Cisco UCS blade chassis and a NetApp FS3220...

Those are some good basics there, I try to make sure I stick to that, but its always good to see. I actually an employee of the company, this is not a consulting-client relationship. A lot of my concern comes from not only the rollout, but the upkeep. Is it even possible that two people can...

Ive been tasked with planning and overseeing a VDI project for our organization. The scope of this includes replacing 90% of existing computers (~400) with zero clients and adding all server/san infrastructure (no existing infrastructure for VDI, only for server virtualization at this time) . We...

I can't comment much on HP Procurve performance other than I am yet to be disappointed. I can speak to their warranty. I'm impressed almost every time I have to deal with it. All their software updates are free to download, and dont require any registration. My current job has about 5-6 old...

Correct, its a 10MB WAN connection from our router at the main site to the one switch at that remote site.

Thanks for the recommendations. I think our existing HP switch does DHCP too. I'll look into that possibility.

I should've expressed this better but we will be removing the existing server and am looking for options in replacement. Id rather not have to buy a brand new server just to run server core, if I don't have to

We have a remote site with ~5 users, 4 IP phones and a network printer. Right now we have an old Win2003 box serving as the DC for that site. It is connected back to us via 10MB layer 3 routing on a HP 5500G-EL switch. This windows server is getting quite old and I'd like to avoid the expense of...

So unless I'm reading that data sheet wrong on Cisco's site, it looks like I'll need 2x1100w if I want to have POE+ ability?

We are looking at doing 6 stacks of 2 switches and 2 stacks of 3 switches.

We are looking at doing some switch replacement. These switches will be in for ~7 years.We need POE for a VOIP phone system, and 10gb uplinks back to the core. We want to have the ability to go POE+ in the future. We were quoted from our vendor for: WS-C3850-48P-S with 2x715w Power supplies...

Thanks for documenting this. i'm looking to do this too. We have ~90 users still with roaming profiles with all the rest utilizing home directories. We are going to transition their roaming profile to local.

I'm guessing the follow-up to this discussion is how do you make your chassis switches cabling look pretty? I've looked in the networking gallery but most of the chassis switches there only had a blade or 2 in them. I'm talking a 7-10-blade switch that is able to have a a cable easily swapped.

Wow great responses. Thats what I figured with the chassis switches being superior in most ways. I'll watch that panduit video, hopefully get some good ideas.

Is there an advantage to having chassis switches such as a 4510, vs having stacked switches? We are looking at a closet that will need ~500 patch connections. Our Cisco partner recommends two 4510R switches. We currently have two older 3COM 7700. Our biggest qualm with the chassis switches is...

I've used ringcentral before with pretty good success.

if i knew anything about japanese culture, specifically in Okinawa, I'd help. Alas, I live in NJ.

i'm prepared, no issues here.

But I AM rad as fuck with AD! Seriously, thanks for the advice man.

Took some advice made some serious modifications: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m_68QcxDmve7szBQbjtBxX3VqtytfbXFmLmPiFrS1E0/edit thoughts? PS. I always get a block when writing cover letters. Whats too much, whats too little...

Those prices seem like pretty good deals to me, Other than costing a ton in power

Hey guys, I used some of the tips in this thread when I graduated college and I'm starting to look again. The position I'm in (~2 years) is my first post-college job and its starting to become apparent I don't have vertical growth. Its a small company and I'm a one man show and have been for my...

V or E series HP ProCurve. I've got an 1800 and a 1910 and nothing but positive things to say about them

We're looking at bringing in another staff member from an outside support firm for one day of support per week. He'd be picking up the extra tech support issues we get. Mostly a Microsoft domain, nothing out of the ordinary. Whats a fair hourly rate?

I've got a dozen Blackberry torch 9810's coming in for my users and they all seem to require a blackberry ID to setup email. I'm trying setup with a BES server. Is there a way to just have one Blackberry ID, or any kind of central management for those logins? Any tips?

free bump for you....but why?

in like Flynn on this. Only got to play about 30 minutes last night but its already taking me back to Deus Ex days.

a L4D style Aliens game would be amazing.

Absolutely, Thats my reasoning behind a management platform. We've got blackberry devices now. Heres my issue: RIM just had a large layoff, There last 2-3 product release generations have been stale and quite aways behind the competition. I don't want to give my users and have to manage...

We were looking at mobileIron, but frankly, the quote I got was a bit crazy. We'll have around 10 iphones and would like to have some way to lock them down. Our VP is worried about the users using them for games/freeforall time wasters. We aren't running any mobile enterprise apps yet(except...

I WTB one too lol. You take the first one, I'll take the second one.

Chemical Manufacturer Servers: Dell Switches: HP E or V series Routers/Firewalls/VPN: Sonicwall Workstation: Old Machines were Dells, newest purchase were Acer Veriton AiO system for the lighter users Laptops: Dell Latitude

Great responses guys. Thanks a lot. Wish we had a rep system here. You'd all be getting greens!