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jmroberts70
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I love the wide-spaced outlet strips! I wish mine was that well spaced apart...
jeffmoss26
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I bet that looked spectacular when it was first installed 
i've been here less than a year, and the building was first built c.1970 then fully renovated in the 90's so the "phone room" has probably had a few iterations since inception. still very cool to see how large phone rooms were installed during their heyday. i dont touch any of this stuff, just walk past it to get to fiber panels that correspond per floor(or are supposed to anyway )
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I see your telco room, and raise you mine.
large 30 floor building. half the building is converted to VoIP so probably some of this is dead lines.
I think I see an AFC there, and what looks like a small cable vault. Is this a central office or something? I still need to ask my manager if I can take pics where I work, it has like 30+ of those big cables coming in + lot of other equipment such as a DMS switch.
I see your telco room, and raise you mine.
large 30 floor building. half the building is converted to VoIP so probably some of this is dead lines.
That looks almost exactly like the frame in the CO i was in today, only far fewer T1's and heaters. The frame was also 3x times higher. Gotta love catwalks.
Speaking of T1's, ya got a red one there. Hot spare?
possibly dead/turned off circuit. i dont hear anyone yelling, so it's just gonna sit there
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Sorta on topic...
Finally got working A/C installed in our server room yesterday. Went from a stand alone unit to a mini split. I come in to check out the work after they leave (Building manager had approved their work), and I see this.
I know what I'm dealing with on Monday, I leave on a business trip Wed.
Finally got working A/C installed in our server room yesterday. Went from a stand alone unit to a mini split. I come in to check out the work after they leave (Building manager had approved their work), and I see this.
I know what I'm dealing with on Monday, I leave on a business trip Wed.
Sorta on topic...
Finally got working A/C installed in our server room yesterday. Went from a stand alone unit to a mini split. I come in to check out the work after they leave (Building manager had approved their work), and I see this.
I know what I'm dealing with on Monday, I leave on a business trip Wed.
My favorite is how its literally right ontop of the outlet.
What could possibly go wrong.
Ruoh
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I know, rite?
MikeTrike
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Sorta on topic...
Finally got working A/C installed in our server room yesterday. Went from a stand alone unit to a mini split. I come in to check out the work after they leave (Building manager had approved their work), and I see this.
I know what I'm dealing with on Monday, I leave on a business trip Wed.
Thafuck?
I'm pretty sure OSHA would love that too...
Sorta on topic...
Finally got working A/C installed in our server room yesterday. Went from a stand alone unit to a mini split. I come in to check out the work after they leave (Building manager had approved their work), and I see this.
I know what I'm dealing with on Monday, I leave on a business trip Wed.
lmao
Wow, just wow.
Those installers would never set foot in one of our buildings again. PNG and notify security if they try...
Most likely is that we would hire someone else to fix it and deduct the extra cost from their install. If they get pissy and try the mechanics lien approach, well, lets just say that's something they will probably come to regret.
The person who "approved" it might also be exploring other employment opportunities...
Ruoh
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Even those of us that aren't admins of 100K+ worth of hardware get to deal with some terribad issues as well. *sigh* Just gotta roll with it. Last I had heard, they were going to use PVC to duct it completely out of the warehouse. My boss is going to love this when it he sees it on Monday.
$100K+? One 9U blade chassis or a half-rack CRS-1/Nexus switch can exceed that in some configs...try $50M+...which is why our standards make us look like such pricks sometimes.
Red Squirrel
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Sorta on topic...
Finally got working A/C installed in our server room yesterday. Went from a stand alone unit to a mini split. I come in to check out the work after they leave (Building manager had approved their work), and I see this.
I know what I'm dealing with on Monday, I leave on a business trip Wed.
At least the bucket matches the outlets.
Should setup a float switch with an alarm point so you get an alarm when it's time to go empty the bucket. There needs to be a drain dead smack in the middle of the server room, preferably no more than a few feet from the racks, that you can then dump it into. So is this contractor seriously considering this finished work?
Yeah, I got a ~$60k Cisco ASA in a while ago and that didn't even excite me.
At least that wasn't the case with the pair of Cisco 12416s I found unused on another floor in my building. Wonder if those were 6 or 7 figures new. I should turn them on sometime and poke around IOS XR since I normally don't get to deal with that.NTAuthourity
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Haha they would never sign off on your electrical/occupancy permit here in Calgary...if the contractor did that. I hope they run that drainage pipe out of the room..I agree with Red Squirrel, get a float switch installed asap..
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Red Falcon
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Sorta on topic...
Finally got working A/C installed in our server room yesterday. Went from a stand alone unit to a mini split. I come in to check out the work after they leave (Building manager had approved their work), and I see this.
I know what I'm dealing with on Monday, I leave on a business trip Wed.
Just, WOW.
Red Falcon
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Come on, really? There is nothing wrong with Hydro-Electric power....they're just trying to save you a buck...
I knew there was a term for that idiotic *cough* I mean cost-saving method.
agrikk
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Getting past OhGodBucketsOfCondensationInTheServerRoom...
I finally finished my lab and have all components up and running:
A few pages pack I posted this:
that looks like this in real life:
Yeah cable is annoying in front of everything, but by the time I'd set it up and realized that it was fugly and I should put cable management on top of the stack and route it that way I wasn't about to redo the cabling on this...
20x 15k 300gb SAS (3600-4000 IOPS):
Cables!
blue = LAN
grey = management
purple = heartbeat/vmotion
black = iSCSI
Another shot of the jet engine:
Here's what it looks like inside.
The 3-node ESXi 5.1 cluster from the vSphere server:
Right now the cluster is running two SQL Server Reporting Services web servers in a grid, plus a MySQL box for SSIS integration stuff, plus a data generating VM. This VM runs PHP and perl scripts that pump out test data hourly into the MySQL database and to flat files that get pulled into SQL server using SSIS packages.
My SQL Server / Hyper-V environment:
These two Windows 2008 R2 servers run in a cluster that server up a clustered SQL Server database engine, a clustered SQL Server Analysis Services engine, and a Hyper-V cluster (in case the trio of ESX hosts didn't have enough resources for virtual machines ) to work on migrating VMs between Hyper-V and ESX and back.
And finally, because I was in a documenting mood, here's how this gear fits into my overall infrastructure at home and in my two colocation facilities:
The bottom is my home network. Site A in the upper left is my production environment with two physical web servers running IIS locally, some dedicated game servers and local SQL instances and a database server that is actually so overbuilt that I use it as a Hyper-V box in addition to a SQL server box that serves data to the web servers and replicates data back to home and to Site B. Site B in the upper right is my DR site with a small web server/DB server, and an overbuilt yet underpowered file server that I use for offsite file storage for backups from my house and production snapshots.
/porn
I finally finished my lab and have all components up and running:
A few pages pack I posted this:
that looks like this in real life:
Yeah cable is annoying in front of everything, but by the time I'd set it up and realized that it was fugly and I should put cable management on top of the stack and route it that way I wasn't about to redo the cabling on this...
20x 15k 300gb SAS (3600-4000 IOPS):
Cables!
blue = LAN
grey = management
purple = heartbeat/vmotion
black = iSCSI
Another shot of the jet engine:
Here's what it looks like inside.
The 3-node ESXi 5.1 cluster from the vSphere server:
Right now the cluster is running two SQL Server Reporting Services web servers in a grid, plus a MySQL box for SSIS integration stuff, plus a data generating VM. This VM runs PHP and perl scripts that pump out test data hourly into the MySQL database and to flat files that get pulled into SQL server using SSIS packages.
My SQL Server / Hyper-V environment:
These two Windows 2008 R2 servers run in a cluster that server up a clustered SQL Server database engine, a clustered SQL Server Analysis Services engine, and a Hyper-V cluster (in case the trio of ESX hosts didn't have enough resources for virtual machines
) to work on migrating VMs between Hyper-V and ESX and back.And finally, because I was in a documenting mood, here's how this gear fits into my overall infrastructure at home and in my two colocation facilities:
The bottom is my home network. Site A in the upper left is my production environment with two physical web servers running IIS locally, some dedicated game servers and local SQL instances and a database server that is actually so overbuilt that I use it as a Hyper-V box in addition to a SQL server box that serves data to the web servers and replicates data back to home and to Site B. Site B in the upper right is my DR site with a small web server/DB server, and an overbuilt yet underpowered file server that I use for offsite file storage for backups from my house and production snapshots.
/porn
wrong state
my downtown area has a building nicknamed "the batman building", that should keep you busy for a while unless you already know the answer.
Ruoh
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my downtown area has a building nicknamed "the batman building", that should keep you busy for a while unless you already know the answer.
I'll be there on Saturday evening. Going to have a few drinks over at that place with the garage door. They open it in the summer when they have bands playing... good times!
agrikk
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FIFY
Reverse the switch to face the back of the rack??
wrong state
my downtown area has a building nicknamed "the batman building", that should keep you busy for a while unless you already know the answer.
Nashville?
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Red Squirrel
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Is that bucket there due to packet leaks? Should use an aluminum lined bucket for those, they tend to travel through plastic, especially the wireless ones.
agrikk
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There is no rack. That's the trouble.
I had two 6U rack columns handy out of a wall-mount kit that I used to keep the two switches from sliding around on top (I was originally using some non-slip rug underlay to keep the switches in place but that seemed janky) by fastening the two switches and the top servers to the posts. But there isn't a "back of the rack" to mount them. Hence this setup.
What ev. It's a pile of servers sitting temporarily on the floor of my entertainment room so I can live with a cable bundle wrapping around for a little while.
If this thing turns into something more permanent, I'll do a better job of cable management.
Is that bucket there due to packet leaks? Should use an aluminum lined bucket for those, they tend to travel through plastic, especially the wireless ones.
The Home Depot Faraday Cage (tm)...? You know, I bet the Monster Cable guys would probably be interested in selling this to gullible schlubs.
"Prevent Packet Loss! Keep your servers in our Server Bucket!"
Red Squirrel
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What is that exactly, fiber transport? Looks pretty cool.
Optical Network Terminal
Typically used to terminate PON. Usually has it's own profile and can provide voice service and/or data services. Most of the time there is a company supplied router behind it to provide video and internet services, but I have seen it where the authentication and routing is handled by the ONT also.