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Network pics thread

Damn those two racks are a sexy setup!

I can't wait to start fixing mine up. I need to pay off my weeping tile debt first though.
 
CyberNBD said:
And back online again after a write erase on each network device and a new addressing scheme. :D
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Once I get a house I am going to have a setup like this in the basement. How much power does that modular switch use under normal load?
 
That looks something like a 4006 series- they have what triple 500watters?

Mine only used about 200 worth- but the most solid switch I ever had.
 
l3thal6 said:
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Oh man your naming scheme. :rolleyes:

I'd love to hear the phone call when you are trying to get a sever rebooted if you ever carried that type of naming scheme into a production environment and you are talking to a noc monkey over a cel:

"Hey Pete, can you reboot Ee-Ee-Ush-Queue-DoubleYou-You-Zero-DoubleYou-Two-Kay-Eight? Thanks, pal."


CyberNBD said:
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This however is sex on a stick. I don't know what you do at home with that kind of hardware and I don't care. All I know is you are one [H]ard motherf*cker. :D
 
agrikk said:
Oh man your naming scheme. :rolleyes:
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Hahaha, agreed, its not the most conversational scheme but I created it with more of a different purpose.

EE (My fictional company name)
US (Fictional company country)
HQ (fictional company site)
DC (network role)
0 (if there are multiple servers/devices performing the functionality)
W2K8 (operating system version)

For my Cisco lab the scheme also includes whether the device is redundant as well as the devices importance.

I've seen far worse schemes in production, for example one place had a file server literally named \\pwredg :D
 
l3thal6 said:
Hahaha, agreed, its not the most conversational scheme but I created it with more of a different purpose.

EE (My fictional company name)
US (Fictional company country)
HQ (fictional company site)
DC (network role)
0 (if there are multiple servers/devices performing the functionality)
W2K8 (operating system version)

For my Cisco lab the scheme also includes whether the device is redundant as well as the devices importance.

I've seen far worse schemes in production, for example one place had a file server literally named \\pwredg :D
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So in that case HQDC1 will do all of that for you.

Since your company name is the same for all servers, it's reduntant information. Since everyone knows where your headquarters is, country is redundant (or if you have multiple HQ's in different countries, use a two letter city code (or a three letter country/city combo)that everyone in IT has standardized and memorized). Since Domain Controllers are windows servers, having the OS in the name is redundant since anyone who will need to know anything about your domain controllers will know what OS they are running.

I work in an enterprise with the worst names ever and I hate them with a passion. The names are so bad that people refer to them by the last octet of their IP address, which sucks because we have multiple subnets and there is duplication in that octet in different ranges, so if someone says, please reboot 161, there are actually three 161's.

Please for the love of god, pick short and pronouncable names for your machines people.

/rant
/derail
 
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Got a rack and slowly getting things put into it. Short rack ears for my netgear 24port that comes Monday then I am good to go. Wires are crazy due to testing that PDU to make sure it was all good.
 
agrikk said:
So in that case HQDC1 will do all of that for you.

Since your company name is the same for all servers, it's reduntant information. Since everyone knows where your headquarters is, country is redundant (or if you have multiple HQ's in different countries, use a two letter city code (or a three letter country/city combo)that everyone in IT has standardized and memorized). Since Domain Controllers are windows servers, having the OS in the name is redundant since anyone who will need to know anything about your domain controllers will know what OS they are running.

I work in an enterprise with the worst names ever and I hate them with a passion. The names are so bad that people refer to them by the last octet of their IP address, which sucks because we have multiple subnets and there is duplication in that octet in different ranges, so if someone says, please reboot 161, there are actually three 161's.

Please for the love of god, pick short and pronouncable names for your machines people.

/rant
/derail
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That was actually a good rant. All of our Core Network routers, switches, and servers are named after Beers. Every single one. Makes it a breeze to remember & find. With the labels on, one of our colo's looks like a freezer "Pilsner, Wheat, Stout, Guinness," etc...
 
agrikk said:
So in that case HQDC1 will do all of that for you.

Since your company name is the same for all servers, it's reduntant information. Since everyone knows where your headquarters is, country is redundant (or if you have multiple HQ's in different countries, use a two letter city code (or a three letter country/city combo)that everyone in IT has standardized and memorized). Since Domain Controllers are windows servers, having the OS in the name is redundant since anyone who will need to know anything about your domain controllers will know what OS they are running.

I work in an enterprise with the worst names ever and I hate them with a passion. The names are so bad that people refer to them by the last octet of their IP address, which sucks because we have multiple subnets and there is duplication in that octet in different ranges, so if someone says, please reboot 161, there are actually three 161's.

Please for the love of god, pick short and pronouncable names for your machines people.

/rant
/derail
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I completely agree with this. I prefer to name things based on location-role-server number if there are multiples.

I recently went on an interview and took a look at a few of the racks that I'd be maintaining if I were to get the job...the servers were named things like Eagles, Phillies, etc. Unless you are the one that built the environment and know what every server does, if another tech had to come in and work on something they would have no idea what that server means(unless of course its laid out in documentation). It's slowly becoming more of a pet peeve of mine just like labeling cable/keeping cabling clean have always been.
 
ToX said:
I completely agree with this. I prefer to name things based on location-role-server number if there are multiples.

I recently went on an interview and took a look at a few of the racks that I'd be maintaining if I were to get the job...the servers were named things like Eagles, Phillies, etc. Unless you are the one that built the environment and know what every server does, if another tech had to come in and work on something they would have no idea what that server means(unless of course its laid out in documentation). It's slowly becoming more of a pet peeve of mine just like labeling cable/keeping cabling clean have always been.
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We are still re-naming servers from the previous guy that got the boot who named his boxes all after superheros. All of our new boxes are named SQLxyz, Sharepointxy, DCxy etc
 
Langly said:
We are still re-naming servers from the previous guy that got the boot who named his boxes all after superheros. All of our new boxes are named SQLxyz, Sharepointxy, DCxy etc
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sure beats seeing surplus (extra machine they didnt have a use for) and surprise(didnt know we had a server budgeted) for names :p
 
Vashypooh said:
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Got a rack and slowly getting things put into it. Short rack ears for my netgear 24port that comes Monday then I am good to go. Wires are crazy due to testing that PDU to make sure it was all good.
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Nice CPS1610 :p What PDU is that? Looks like it would be handy for my Cisco lab lol
 
CyberNBD, that is just beautiful. I love to see Neutrik stuff used in non-audio/touring applications! I ran sound throughout school, lost track of how many XLR/speakon/powercon connectors I've installed.
 
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agrikk said:
Vashypooh, I love that PDU. Can you take some closeup hi-res pics of the front and back of it? I want to make sure it'll work for what I want to do with it.
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Sure. Here is a few new pictures from today. My netgear's rack ears showed up. I have wired up the Avocent (minus its lan cable atm) and all of the power for the rack.

PDU Back:

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Fully wired for power:

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Ran down the left sides inside with velcro cable tie. Shit's magic.

If you need more pics let me know. I encountered the same issue in the lack of real pictures of the device out there~
 
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Vashypooh said:
Sure. Here is a few new pictures from today. My netgear's rack ears showed up. I have wired up the Avocent (minus its lan cable atm) and all of the power for the rack.

If you need more pics let me know. I encountered the same issue in the lack of real pictures of the device out there~
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Thanks man. You should upload those pictures to amazon. The unwashed masses will thank you.
 
jeffmoss26 said:
CyberNBD, that is just beautiful. I love to see Neutrik stuff used in non-audio/touring applications! I ran sound throughout school, lost track of how many XLR/speakon/powercon connectors I've installed.
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Thanks. I'm also in the Pro sound/light/video business so it was an easy decision to use the Neutriks for external connections.
 
nOrVow said:
What chassis is that on the top 2u, left cabinet?
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Looks like some sort of Dell, maybe a MD1000, MD3000 or something like that. But definitely looks like a Dell unit of some sort. My MD3000i looks sort of like it without the face plate.
 
s0lid said:
Yeah md1000 that is.
Got one sitting on my desk atm, got it last week for quite cheap price :D
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wonder what it pulls for power and how much heat it makes ? and how loud it is ?

Id love one..sellmy qnap and grab a md1000
 
The MD's make a bit of noise but aren't overly obnoxious.

At the last place I worked we had 3 MD3000's and and MD1000. One of the 3000's had the 1000 daisy chained onto it. the other 3000 was standalone. The third MD3000 was for backup's.
 
I happily tossed a MD1000 in the trash earlier this year, had like 17gig drives, old ass SCSI, literally weighed about 45 pounds, heat and power monster too.
 
dashpuppy said:
wonder what it pulls for power and how much heat it makes ? and how loud it is ?

Id love one..sellmy qnap and grab a md1000
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I'm not sure tbh, i haven't had the time to test it.
PSUs seem to have quite noisy 12V 1.6A 60mm Deltas and i've no idea are they controlled at all.
The EMMs were passive cooled cards w/o any heatsinks with 3x LSI chips so that kinda says they're not really power hungry ones. With 1x psu and 1x EMM you could get lowish power consumption.

haunter said:
I happily tossed a MD1000 in the trash earlier this year, had like 17gig drives, old ass SCSI, literally weighed about 45 pounds, heat and power monster too.
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MD1000's are SAS/SATA stuff, not some ancient SCSI.
 
Quick shot of the in-progress home lab with an unorthodox method of cable management (patch panel to patch panel):

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(Excuse the cell phone pic--was in a hurry).
 
haunter said:
I happily tossed a MD1000 in the trash earlier this year, had like 17gig drives, old ass SCSI, literally weighed about 45 pounds, heat and power monster too.
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You are thinking of a 220S - they are old tech/SCSI.

MD1000's are SAS/SATAII (3gb) and nice units.
 
could be, it looked identical to the one pictured, and its been months. and it hadnt been used since before I started the job

I should have a md3100 on hand in a month or so, full of 600gb sas 10k drives
 
haunter said:
I happily tossed a MD1000 in the trash earlier this year, had like 17gig drives, old ass SCSI, literally weighed about 45 pounds, heat and power monster too.
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That was a 220S I assume, not an MD1000. MD1000 is sas. Connected with dual infiniband.

MD1000 is quite noisy when fans are at full speed (running hot, one PSU or at startup) but during normal operation the noise isn't that bad.
Mine is filled with 7x 300GB SAS 15k (6 in Raid 50 + HSP) and 8x 2TB SAS 7.2k (7 in Raid 5 + HSP). Dual EMM/PSU. It connects to the upper 2950 running StarWind iSCSI target.
 
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