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agrikk
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Background:
The lease is up on our building in Burlingame, CA so my company decided to look around for better digs to call home. After looking around and exploring various options, we found a spot in downtown San Francisco. The unfortunate thing was that to build a server room into our suite was going to cost us around $200,000, thanks to the building and San Francisco requiring union labor and requiring us to pick form a very, very short list of contractors (read: 1 company) who have a monopoly on any work done in the building.
Instead we decided to host 99% of our gear in 365 Main a colo approximately two blocks away from our suite.
The final result is that as far as IT is concerned, I'll be managing two moves starting next month: one into the colo space and one smaller move into our office.
What follows is a work log of my progress, with pictures as I can manage to take them.
In the simplest form, here's our network layout:
Our office will access resources at the colo and use the uplink at the colo for internet access. This removes the need for any firewall equipment in our office. VPN traffic from remote users will be straight to recourses in the colo.
The first part of this project has been negotiations with Cogent and 365 Main and signing contracts. All boring as hell. But now that those are signed, we can move stuff in:
I had to do a lot of port shuffling to free up these switches from our existing stacks. I also had to break our HA firewall pair to use one in the colo. When all is said and done and we've moved into our new office, the second firewall will be pulled from the existing office and mated with this guy at the colo.
It all starts here:
There's nothing in the five cabinets except for a pair of fiber cross-connects. One L3 100mbit link to the internet, one gigE L2 link to our new office. These went in yesterday and now I'm waiting for Cogent to hook up their end. When that goes live, I can bring in the routers and start racking gear.
The lease is up on our building in Burlingame, CA so my company decided to look around for better digs to call home. After looking around and exploring various options, we found a spot in downtown San Francisco. The unfortunate thing was that to build a server room into our suite was going to cost us around $200,000, thanks to the building and San Francisco requiring union labor and requiring us to pick form a very, very short list of contractors (read: 1 company) who have a monopoly on any work done in the building.
Instead we decided to host 99% of our gear in 365 Main a colo approximately two blocks away from our suite.
The final result is that as far as IT is concerned, I'll be managing two moves starting next month: one into the colo space and one smaller move into our office.
What follows is a work log of my progress, with pictures as I can manage to take them.
In the simplest form, here's our network layout:
Our office will access resources at the colo and use the uplink at the colo for internet access. This removes the need for any firewall equipment in our office. VPN traffic from remote users will be straight to recourses in the colo.
The first part of this project has been negotiations with Cogent and 365 Main and signing contracts. All boring as hell. But now that those are signed, we can move stuff in:
I had to do a lot of port shuffling to free up these switches from our existing stacks. I also had to break our HA firewall pair to use one in the colo. When all is said and done and we've moved into our new office, the second firewall will be pulled from the existing office and mated with this guy at the colo.
It all starts here:
There's nothing in the five cabinets except for a pair of fiber cross-connects. One L3 100mbit link to the internet, one gigE L2 link to our new office. These went in yesterday and now I'm waiting for Cogent to hook up their end. When that goes live, I can bring in the routers and start racking gear.
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