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Network pics thread

i've been considering the move from WHS (running on HP Microserver) to synology for a while- but i'm not yet convinced...

convince me!? :)

i'm now hovering over the buy button on a Synology RS812 (after reading they consume 14W idle and 35W during use (i'm pretty sure this is less than the microserver
 
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Total cost was around a grand.

Try the Synology demo. The web interface is very nice. I no longer need to worry about the WHS having weird little issues, iSCSI works great, I have Crashplan backing up what's inportant. My WHS worked well, but this just works so much better.
 
I think the thing currently holding me back is the decision about the disks... It's getting to point where i'm thinking about going down the SSD only route- and all the synology boxes are 3.5" i think- so it would be waste of space or another upgrade in 6months
 
ltickett said:
I think the thing currently holding me back is the decision about the disks... It's getting to point where i'm thinking about going down the SSD only route- and all the synology boxes are 3.5" i think- so it would be waste of space or another upgrade in 6months
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build your own unit ? or put in ssd drives with the adapter to hold the 2.5 " in the 3.5" bay ?
 
build my own- any recommendations?
adapters- of course an option, but i think it's only a matter of time before they release something more apt

i found the 411 slim but it's not really the right target audience :(
 
ltickett said:
build my own- any recommendations?
adapters- of course an option, but i think it's only a matter of time before they release something more apt

i found the 411 slim but it's not really the right target audience :(
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I thought about a bare bones supermicro server with 8 2.5" bays 8gigs ram ( upgrade able ) and a fast FAST raid card, of course the raid card & ssd drives would be the most expensive part..
 
More Storage going in - Hitachi HUS 150, BlueArc Mercury 100, IBM DS4700, IBM V7000 w/some SSD (love the auto-tiering in the V7000)

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ltickett said:
I think the thing currently holding me back is the decision about the disks... It's getting to point where i'm thinking about going down the SSD only route- and all the synology boxes are 3.5" i think- so it would be waste of space or another upgrade in 6months
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Synology's are 2.5 or 3.5. The 2.5 just mount through the holes on the bottom of the drive. They even include screws for 2.5 and 3.5.
 
some sexaaaaaaaaaaaa stuff going on here..

i wanted to ask, i am redoing most of my network, wiring that is.... how do most of you prefer to do your wiring from jack to switch in racks?

i am getting a 2 pole rake to redo all of the original wiring done by the ISP before i took control of our office and have some idea's of redoing everything but if everyone could post more pics of their wiring.. would be awesome.
 
What was the software used to do this kind of mapping on the right (on the paper) ?

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Thanks
 
MikeTrike said:
I'm surprised that it's not running an auto-resize plugin like most every other forum I've been on. The one where you just click the bar to make the image max size again... I can dream.
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Send Kyle a message and ask him to implement it, i'm sure its just something that has to be activate or installed for the Forum to use this Feature.
 
I think Kyle has been against addons ever since hardforum kept getting hacked about a year ago.

Just use imgur.com to host your images and use Large Thumbnail mode. Fits great here.
 
who knows, only a few billion icon packs for visio laying around on the internet :p
 
im looking to pick up a server, trying to find something inexpensive just to play around with. i've been checking ebay and geeks.com but do you guys have any other recommendations for places to look?
 
RL400 said:
im looking to pick up a server, trying to find something inexpensive just to play around with. i've been checking ebay and geeks.com but do you guys have any other recommendations for places to look?
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I might sell my hp dl380 with new processors in it and 6 x sas drives :) Needs just one more psu to make it redundant, has rails too.
 
audiphilth said:
More Storage going in - Hitachi HUS 150, BlueArc Mercury 100, IBM DS4700, IBM V7000 w/some SSD (love the auto-tiering in the V7000)
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I haven't seen those BlueArcs anywhere since I toured a DC at Purdue years ago.

Do they really run for half a million each? (that's what I was told at the time)
 
Nice setup.




My rack aint the prettiest at this moment. I plan to build a wooden enclosure of sorts so I can add some cable ducts and other cable management stuff as well as a pdu. Not in the budget now though.





And some hackery to detect AC failure and read battery voltage. (shares a single cat6 cable). I need to find a way to enclose these type of electronic components better instead of just leaving them hanging. Maybe small Tupperware containers or something.

 
Yeah, unfortunately most production DC's that I've worked in were already cable mazes and my manager would have never let me take down services for a re-cabling :( But of course when we had to tshoot something it was a cluster****
 
l3thal6 said:
Yeah, unfortunately most production DC's that I've worked in were already cable mazes and my manager would have never let me take down services for a re-cabling :( But of course when we had to tshoot something it was a cluster****
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Sounds like some places I've been. If you step on a mess of cables in one part of the room their redirected folders server will power off then back on. That place is really special since if someone is smoking at the back door it's as if they're next to you.
 
D-EJ915 said:
Sounds like some places I've been. If you step on a mess of cables in one part of the room their redirected folders server will power off then back on. That place is really special since if someone is smoking at the back door it's as if they're next to you.
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One of the worst situations I have ever seen was an IDF that aggregated a bunch of access switches. There were 3 Cisco 4506's terminating roughly 40 fiber pairs, the fiber patch panel was an absolute nightmare and a majority of the patch cables to the switches where tangled together in a huge mess. Needless to say, we cleaned that place up really well and got everything nice and pretty.
 
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D-EJ915 said:
Sounds like some places I've been. If you step on a mess of cables in one part of the room their redirected folders server will power off then back on. That place is really special since if someone is smoking at the back door it's as if they're next to you.
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when I started my current job, we had 2 network LAN stations bakc to back with a walkway inbetween, at one end was the 4 post rack

there were about 15 power strips, mostly on the floor, no cable management, if you walked in the walkway you had to tiptoe though a spider web and it was a guarentee when that happened that someone stepped on something that ended up turning off a powerstrip and taking a server down

it was a nightmare.

I decom'd 5 servers in the first month. No one could tell me what anything did, so first I powered some off but the other admin kept powering them back up thinking it was a mistake(and argued constantly about turning stuff off to see what went down) so I started pulling LAN cables instead.

getting it to this took me HOURS of cabling:
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and a few months to get us down to stuff I could fit on one LAN workstation.

fast forward a year and that rack has 1 switch with about 6 connections to it, that should hopefully be gone by end of august completely with the LAN worstation just holding 1 tower server and a desktop machine running a webshot and 3 prosumer buffalo NAS boxes

total nightmare.
 
Amazon barely exists here either. I can go to Amazon.ca and half the stuff available in the states is not available. Quite frustrating actually. I don't know why it's so hard to buy stuff here.
 
haunter said:
when I started my current job, we had 2 network LAN stations bakc to back with a walkway inbetween, at one end was the 4 post rack

there were about 15 power strips, mostly on the floor, no cable management, if you walked in the walkway you had to tiptoe though a spider web and it was a guarentee when that happened that someone stepped on something that ended up turning off a powerstrip and taking a server down

it was a nightmare.

I decom'd 5 servers in the first month. No one could tell me what anything did, so first I powered some off but the other admin kept powering them back up thinking it was a mistake(and argued constantly about turning stuff off to see what went down) so I started pulling LAN cables instead.

getting it to this took me HOURS of cabling:
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and a few months to get us down to stuff I could fit on one LAN workstation.

fast forward a year and that rack has 1 switch with about 6 connections to it, that should hopefully be gone by end of august completely with the LAN worstation just holding 1 tower server and a desktop machine running a webshot and 3 prosumer buffalo NAS boxes

total nightmare.
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Do I see a bat phone? :D
 
Well, spent some time lastnight and today and got vlans running through a 10/100 HP 2626 switch and Astaro 9.00-8 with vlans :)


Test setup,


Vlan 50 is 192.168.5.x
Vlan 60 is 192.168.6.x

Plugged in my spare dlink nas and copied 500 mb's across the vlans..

result

Started at 3% cpu and went up a little bit,

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CPU @ 24%

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ndruw said:
I haven't seen those BlueArcs anywhere since I toured a DC at Purdue years ago.

Do they really run for half a million each? (that's what I was told at the time)
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Those were probably the BlueArc "Titan" heads, and yes, they were 500k ea. The ones we use now are the "Mercury" heads, smaller chassis, 10G iSCSI, etc.

We use them because of the proprietary filesystem which is specifically designed to handle small files, we run ediscovery and litigation apps, each litigation case has around 10MM files all 16kb and under, try copying 1MM, 1kb files and see how painful it is.
 
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