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Network pics thread

This needs to last another 1-2 years while our new stuff gets built from scratch. They should hopefully start breaking ground this year. :)

Mini dc with hot/cold isle racks.

But this is the current setup in its current form:
http://youtu.be/h72WtVyiN6g
 
Looks good. Just a heads up though, those portable AC units tend to suck lot of air out of the room through that tube. See if you can rig an intake on there. The way these work is since they're not split, air needs to cool the compressor/condenser and since that air is hot it has to go outside. But in that process it sucks indoor air out and causes conditioned air to be wasted.

Check out what I did to mine in my office:



Doubled the efficiency on mine.

The cat generates about 2000 watts of heat though so it sorta negates the effect.
 
More additions to the new DC -

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agrikk said:
Wow. That's some serious Cisco.

What is it and what will it be doing?
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We host a .net 4 web based application used in e-discovery/review of large corporate litigations, we need a ton of web, application, and SQL Servers to accommodate the scale we are growing to (currently 1 database is ~5TB in size, and we host several hundred in the 300GB - 1TB range)

There are 8, B230 blades, E7-2870 procs (40 cores), 256GB of Ram, that are a new ESXi 5 cluster, 2 more B230 blades (same config) are a new SQL 2012 cluster, and some B200 blades running some other back-end apps.

This is just the start, we will be adding 2 more chassis in each rack, and some new toys as well, (80 cores, 2TB of Ram in a single box) more new SQL Servers on the way, will have plenty of pics.
 
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Still not enough processing power :D.

We are looking at the new 2011 vTwin's. In 10u I could get 320 cores and 5TB of ram.

Still very cool! What is the management interface like?
 
The Spyder said:
Still not enough processing power :D.

We are looking at the new 2011 vTwin's. In 10u I could get 320 cores and 5TB of ram.

Still very cool! What is the management interface like?
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UCSM is sweet, info on all items connected to fabric, config of storage/network related to the fabric, very granular info and control of chassis, blades, and racked servers.

One of the coolest things is the "VIC (virtual interface card)" in each of the servers, let's us create up to 254 "virtual" interfaces per server. On the ESXi boxes we have 8, 10GB eth interfaces, and on the SQL boxes we have 4, 10GB eth, and 4, 8GB fiber interfaces, all created from within UCSM, when you set up the OS, it sees whatever has been presented by the VIC.

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It's at the end of a hallway, there are a couple offices right outside, they tend to leave the door open since the sound system is in there too (it's a temple)
The network has grown over the years, but as you can see it's a cluster.
 
Vito_Corleone said:
Glad to see more UCS out there.
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I've heard about UCS and was asked to apply for a job at a datacenter that was deploying a bunch of cisco's gear, but I've never seen pictures of it. The technology sounds really, really cool: need a large infrastructure for virtualization or data processing?

Bam! Here's a cabinet with everything ready to go.


jeffmoss26 said:
Here is the opposite of OCD, the server room at my mom's work. Just sad.
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I've seen this setup more times than I care to remember in churches and schools when I had my consulting gig running at full speed. Some guy buys a linksys WRT54G for his house and then considers himself a NetEng or SysAdmin and starts setting up crap like this.

And when they are long gone, their legacy remains: packet loss, horrible network performance, improperly configured shares, half-implemented logon scripts and a "backup solution" that runs a copy command to an external USB drive that has been unplugged or full for at least a year.

These people are a danger to themselves and others.
 
The sad part is, they have a well-established local company that does the network and all of their support. They pay a lot of money per year, and this is what their handiwork looks like.
 
jeffmoss26 said:
Here is the opposite of OCD, the server room at my mom's work. Just sad.
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I'm going to have one of those coming soon. I start a new job a week from today and in the interview I got a tour of the DC. Kind of Scary. Will be cleaning that up promptly. My OCD can't handle it
 
Yeah the B&W Yealink screen reminded me of the old Mac OS 6.0 on monochrome Macs, same font and everything. I wonder if it runs Hypercard... :D
 
Nice phone! I'd like to go voip around the house some time, just for the coolness factor of having business class phones around the house. :p I have a spare server I need to put to use, too. Just need a USB POTS converter and I'd be set to start playing.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Nice phone! I'd like to go voip around the house some time, just for the coolness factor of having business class phones around the house. :p I have a spare server I need to put to use, too. Just need a USB POTS converter and I'd be set to start playing.
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spare server from me :)

I might setup my own now too :) buy a few of these for around the house and POOF
 
jeffmoss26 said:
The sad part is, they have a well-established local company that does the network and all of their support. They pay a lot of money per year, and this is what their handiwork looks like.
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Trouble is, when you're a onsite dispatch tech for SoHo support (like I was back in the day) and you say "I could clean this up for 2 hours @ $125/hour, or just leave it in this big farking mess" 96% of small businesses will save the money and claim they'll do it (which either never happens, or causes bigger problems).
 
@ Dash & MikeTrike - where did you guys grab those YeaLinks? Direct, Ebay, or special distributor. Part of my new job @ work is evaluate products for VoIP platform & I see that they have an Interop guide for Yealink. I wouldn't mind picking two up for testing.
 
dirtyonekanobi said:
@ Dash & MikeTrike - where did you guys grab those YeaLinks? Direct, Ebay, or special distributor. Part of my new job @ work is evaluate products for VoIP platform & I see that they have an Interop guide for Yealink. I wouldn't mind picking two up for testing.
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I get decent pricing from one of my vendors: http://www.sourcing-agents.com/

PM me and I'll send you my rep's contact info. :)
 
UCSM is sweet, info on all items connected to fabric, config of storage/network related to the fabric, very granular info and control of chassis, blades, and racked servers.

One of the coolest things is the "VIC (virtual interface card)" in each of the servers, let's us create up to 254 "virtual" interfaces per server. On the ESXi boxes we have 8, 10GB eth interfaces, and on the SQL boxes we have 4, 10GB eth, and 4, 8GB fiber interfaces, all created from within UCSM, when you set up the OS, it sees whatever has been presented by the VIC.
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I am jealous!

Spent today deploying ESXi on a few Dell R510's via IDRAC.
 
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