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Network pics thread

4 x ST32000542AS 2TB 5900 RPM Seagate
QNAP TS-419P

Faster drives won't help the Atom CPU do AES. Speeds went from 80MB/s to 30MB/s with encryption enabled. Security of the data is more important to me so I will take the speed hit.
 
how about this visbits :)


I had to change out a storage shelf 2 sundays ago at 6am, plus the 2 hour drive to get there from home..


I'd say there were about 12-15 48U racks FULL of emc storage stuff :) i bet you there is more than 2500 hard drives in this room alone.

PLUS 4 of these storageTek Tape library's.

You beat me there! We have a compellent system coming in later this year with over 200 disk.. pretty excited to get some new storage in. The way EMC handles iscsi is a little different than what I'm use to... still warming up to the design.
 
I wish I could talk our IT manager into 2 x SANs with async for DR but he just doesnt seem interested.
 
You beat me there! We have a compellent system coming in later this year with over 200 disk.. pretty excited to get some new storage in. The way EMC handles iscsi is a little different than what I'm use to... still warming up to the design.

SHIT! reminds me i need to log into my dtt.dell.com and do my Compellent training :) NOT ENOUGH TIME IN THE DAY GRR!!
 
4 x ST32000542AS 2TB 5900 RPM Seagate
QNAP TS-419P

Faster drives won't help the Atom CPU do AES. Speeds went from 80MB/s to 30MB/s with encryption enabled. Security of the data is more important to me so I will take the speed hit.

Min'es not even a atom :0 its a single chip VIA i belive. No expandable memory, i did see that i can go up to 3tb drives tho :) My cpu and nic activitie is pretty low. have a 2011 exchange ( SBS ) server running from it with a website and 2 db's and a rdp box i rdp into for stuff along with soon to be more vm's and the ts410u works awesome.
 
anybody runing fancy monitoring packages?

nagios? capsa?

spent my last 2 days wiresharking and tracking down equipment after a broadcast storm
 
Do I have the most storage here? This is all I have pictures of at the moment; less than 1/10th of it, or so.

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anybody runing fancy monitoring packages?

nagios? capsa?

spent my last 2 days wiresharking and tracking down equipment after a broadcast storm

Yes, but not either of those. I run and manage CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager, CA Netqos Net Voyant,CA Netqos Reporter Analyzer and Ciscoworks LMS.

Do I have the most storage here? This is all I have pictures of at the moment; less than 1/10th of it, or so.

Possibly, but a lot of us can't or won't post pictures. (I did but removed them, not worth losing my job over. I believe one is still in this thread somewhere)
 
Possibly, but a lot of us can't or won't post pictures. (I did but removed them, not worth losing my job over. I believe one is still in this thread somewhere)
Sure -- it can get dicey.
I'd say there were about 12-15 48U racks FULL of emc storage stuff :) i bet you there is more than 2500 hard drives in this room alone.
Wow! What's it for?
 
Do I have the most storage here? This is all I have pictures of at the moment; less than 1/10th of it, or so.

No, if i was allowed to take pictures of the data center I would, but i'm not sure i'm allowed. i'll ask tho.

just think 12-15 48U racks FULL of hard drives :)
 
No picture because the VNX's aren't installed yet but

CX4-60 disks
AX4-24 disks
AX150-12 disks
VNX1-65 disks (15 ssd)
VNX2-55 disks (10 ssd)

Total disks, two locations- 216 disks
 
Just upgraded our Dell T710 servers (ESX Servers) with more Ram. Let's just say that 40GB of RAM is not enough when paired with Xeons X5680 monsters. Swapped from stock 4GBs sticks to 8GB Sticks, upgraded to 96GB.

Some pics of the T710 Guts without plastic shroud. The PCI-E card in there is an Intel Pro/1000MT Quad port NIC for who's interested to know.

t710-inside1.jpg


t710-inside2.jpg
 
Hrmm..I have:

HP Lefthand P4500 w/156 Disks 600GB 15k SAS
EMC CX4-240 w/60 300GB FC 15k
EMC VNX5500 w/53 300GB 15k SAS/16 1TB NL-SAS/5 100GB EFD
 
I should have a few dual prot pro 1000 MT's to sell next week if anyone is interested
 
144 phones/devices later and here's my mid-day 3CX resource utilization.



This is actually running virtualized on XenServer 6.0 with one tick under the highest CPU priority and dedicated 8GB VM RAM assigned.

I wasn't sure on the RAM, which is why it has so much. I'll probably kick that back to 4GB. Or dynamic 3GB to 6GB or something.
 
Made a diagram of my current home network. I plan to eventually get an ASA and a GB switch for the production side but this is what I have now.

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Made a diagram of my current home network. I plan to eventually get an ASA and a GB switch for the production side but this is what I have now.

397157_10150561893093155_541148154_8967283_794967484_n.jpg

May I ask, what is the purpose of having two OSPF areas in this type of network?
 
May I ask, what is the purpose of having two OSPF areas in this type of network?

Prevent lab convergence from having any negative affects on production performance and increase future scalability of the lab.
 
I believe we have over 2000 discs deployed across our sites. That is if we were using all 3TB disk, I believe we have some older projects using 1, 1.5, and 2 TB discs. No clue honestly. I can't even begin to estimate the amount of ram, processing power, and storage we have.
 
Just upgraded our Dell T710 servers (ESX Servers) with more Ram. Let's just say that 40GB of RAM is not enough when paired with Xeons X5680 monsters. Swapped from stock 4GBs sticks to 8GB Sticks, upgraded to 96GB.

Some pics of the T710 Guts without plastic shroud. The PCI-E card in there is an Intel Pro/1000MT Quad port NIC for who's interested to know.

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m371/d33ns/t710-inside1.jpg

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m371/d33ns/t710-inside2.jpg
Please get 2 more sticks so you run equally populated channels. I'm not sure how Dell works with that sort of configuration but it just looks wrong lol.
 
Please get 2 more sticks so you run equally populated channels. I'm not sure how Dell works with that sort of configuration but it just looks wrong lol.

? They are equally populated. The server probably wouldn't even boot if they weren't. It's easier to distinguish if you count the metal parts on the top of the RAM vs the actual slots.
 
? They are equally populated. The server probably wouldn't even boot if they weren't. It's easier to distinguish if you count the metal parts on the top of the RAM vs the actual slots.

I think he is referring to the banks of 3, it goes white black black x 3 per proc

it looks like he has ram in 3 whites and 3black ( per proc )

to make it = it would be 6 ram's per proc

I can confirm this later in the morning from the DTT manual, tho :)
 
Some updates to my PT Network, fixed the STP issues in the MH LAN. Also fully configured NAT and PAT. All internal rfc 1918 address are translated to a signal global address using overloading. Also some ports are forwarded for services like http,https, smtp, pop3 and dns. Configured a few ACL's to protect development traffic internally. The ISP1 site is operational and providing DNS and HTTP services to users via NAT port forwarding also. Still some work to do but I have covered about 50% of the ICND2 topics so far. I may go for the cert next week!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.ne...47268558155_541148154_8920464_485140478_n.jpg

Here is an example of my NAT/PAT config on the HQ router, please critique if you see any problems!

Code:
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Hey, is there any way I could get the Packet Tracer file for this layout (and/or your previous/current layout)? I'd like to build on this example for an enterprise environment simulation project.

Thanks!
 
I think he is referring to the banks of 3, it goes white black black x 3 per proc

it looks like he has ram in 3 whites and 3black ( per proc )

to make it = it would be 6 ram's per proc

I can confirm this later in the morning from the DTT manual, tho :)

I followed the technical documents from Dell to add the RAM. I am currently running in Optimizer (or is it Optimized?) mode and it's how to do it. The only requirement in this mode is that both processors has to have the same Ram speed/type/amount in both the A and B banks.

I am currently using A1 to A8 and B1 to B8 banks (not shown in picture) of exact same ram so I am on par with the Dell document.
 
Prevent lab convergence from having any negative affects on production performance and increase future scalability of the lab.

But it's a home network. How many nodes would you need in each OSPF area before this actually became an issue?
 
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I followed the technical documents from Dell to add the RAM. I am currently running in Optimizer (or is it Optimized?) mode
"Optimized".

Thing is, there's A1-A9 slots, not just A1-A8. In channel 1 (A1, A4, A7), you've got three DIMMs. In channel 2 (A2, A5, A8) you've got two DIMMs. In channel 3 (A3, A6, A9) you've only got zero DIMMs. Fine to have zero modules in a channel if you don't need the capacity, but you've got two modules in Channel 2, and I think that's what people are objecting to.
 
I think he is referring to the banks of 3, it goes white black black x 3 per proc

it looks like he has ram in 3 whites and 3black ( per proc )

to make it = it would be 6 ram's per proc

I can confirm this later in the morning from the DTT manual, tho :)

Gotcha. After reading that Dell memory pdf and taking another look I see what you guys are talking about. I haven't done much with DDR3 in servers, mainly just DDR2.
 
Heres a few pics of our finally completed switch over to the new Catalyst 4507R+E's

MBuildingswitchrack.jpg

CatMCisco4507E.jpg

CatACisco4507E.jpg


Cabling could be a little neater but its all in place and running great. One 4507 in each of our buildings linked by 10GB fiber.

Next up is to replace our access layer switches in our main data center with a full stack of PowerConnect 6248P's.
 
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