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Create an LACP trunk to each device. create a VLAN for storage, a VLAN for VM traffic, and a VLAN for your management (can include IPMI in this same VLAN probably)

I deploy SRX100's everywhere. they're solid.

+1 hate seeing sketchy non tier1 gear

http://fastening-solutions.itwbuildex.com/viewitems/sammys-threaded-rod-anchors-1-2-/sammys-1-2-vertical-threaded-rod-anchor?

I've used a bit of everything. Dislike brocade, avaya, nortel, and Dell. HP is good, but limited feature sets (mostly worked with 28xx, 29xx and zl chassis. CLI is very close to Cisco Juniper is my current favourite (disclaimer, I'm a Juniper partner, but also a Cisco Partner) I love...

I've used flowviewer in the past and liked it, simple: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flowviewer/ plixer is also okay: http://www.plixer.com/Flowalyzer/flowalyzer.html

damn, that's gonna be an aweful lot of broadcast traffic...

nice! I know what you mean about the commit time, it's annoying waiting for my SRX240 cluster to commit, our config is getting rather large, and commit does take a while.

nice! how are you liking the QFX gear?

Curious what most people are doing in this scenario. I've got a few hosts with 4 1Gb NICs, currently have a DvSwitch with ports 0 and 1 for vm traffic, mgmt, and vmotion, and a standard vSwitch with port 2 and 3 for my iSCSI with the virtual initiators bound to physical ports as per the relevant...

What is your budget? Does it need to be passively cooled?

if orion/npm is too pricey, there is always ipmonitor (also from solarwinds). HP sitescope sucks. Zabbix is pretty cool, and cacti+thold works pretty well if you have the time to set it up. Lot's of love around here for nagios as well, but I don't use it personally.

Need to find a faster test server :/

I've switched to using nothing but Juniper in new deployments at work, mostly EX4200. We've got EX-2200's in our office though. They're good switches, and the CLI is the same across all product lines running JUNOS, so it's nice that the switches and firewalls have the same config setup.

yup, the EX4200 stack is LOUD, those are EX4200-48P's, with dual 930W PSU's, they move quite a bit of air.

They're R610's mostly, also an R410, P4100, 2x R200, and some R210's none of them are very quiet, but it doesn't really matter at the colo. The 12g series are much better, the R420 isn't bad, I deployed one of them in an office environment.

started racking some of my new gear today. EX4200 virtual chassis, and a few new vSphere hosts for the cluster. New SRX240H2's should get in tomorrow.

excellent work.

Currently leaning towards Control4, doing a few window coverings, all the lights, garage door, 5 zones of audio, and eventually when I finish my basement, I'll be building another dedicated home theater. Crestron is tempting, but like twice the cost of Control4 for a lot of stuff. That being...

Juniper network connect and junos pulse are pretty damn good, should have a look.

Took possession of my new house last week, started installing gear. Have a Juniper SRX, Ubiquiti APs, APC UPS, and a few other goodies to go in yet. Will also be rebuilding my home theater, and doing some home automation, so lots of work to do.

I really like JUNOS, have only deployed a few of the EX switches, but we'll be changing out our HP's for a stack of EX4200's in the colo fairly soon, and I've deployed dozens of the SRX series. They are a good value for your dollar, rock solid, and support has been pretty good. an SRX100 beats...

A few more pics: a small install i did a while back rolled out some juniper gear, replaces a whole bunch of sonicwall stuff.

bds1904: I pm'd you with some info Red: That's not my garage, just my companies warehouse space, my personal garage is actually larger than that, haha.

I use the pro-3000 as well, it's nice having the clips for voice/fax troubleshooting. also, since I'm onto voice/fax a bit, nice to have one of these too: http://www.flukenetworks.com/datacom-cabling/installation-tools/TS-30-Series-Test-Sets

used to run a small on-prem datacenter, moved into a larger colo, all new gear, so the old stuff went into storage, I've been too busy to put it onto ebay.

Yes, we do. I can't recall exactly how the policy breaks down, but I think we've got about $50,000 in coverage for tools/etc, and between 5-10 million in liability insurance.

Leviton, and put boots on them if you find you often snag the tabs

I have most of the hand tools mentioned, all fluke/klein, but I do it for a living. spending a few thousand on tools really isn't much. I wouldn't mind getting setup to do fiber, but we usually sub out on any large structured data cabling jobs. a good splice kit and OTDR is very pricey. add...

started cleaning up my garage a bit, bought a new house and moving an a couple months. This is some of my excess gear: sorry for image quality, taken with my iPotatoe

for $2k mark you could get a Juniper SRX210, so long as you don't have OSX remote clients the dynamic ipsec VPN would work for you.

needs an EPO and a wiring panel, also you should probably not have your fuses mounted to a 2x6, they get hot if they blow.

ouch! right in the power bill!

Juniper EX4200, cross stack etherchannel

what do you consider a high amount of traffic?

yup, I contemplated it. I have a 100A ATS and an extra subpanel for it, along with all the wire, twistlock plugs etc. /usr/home PM me, don't want to highjack the thread, wasn't planning on doing a FS thread on here, I mostly sell the equipment through my company to other local IT providers.

Pay for it and it's all yours, sitting in my Saskatoon warehouse right now. All of my gear is moving into colo, so I have piles of racks, servers, SANs and UPS's, pretty much everything to start a small datacenter.

Wow, I've got a 15KVA liebert in my garage I would have sold you for a lot less than you've spent, haha

the IP550 handset is jsut my desk line, and there's an IP6000 for conference calls. I'm just using a hosted voip provider right now until I have my colo up, then probably going to play around with shoretel. I do have an asterisk box on my test server, but haven't had much time to get it...

you can get narrow sections of ladder rack (like 6" wide), and suspend the ladder rack from the drop ceiling with threaded rod. That would probably be the most "proper" way. Not sure I understand your aversion to using ladder rack.