My Basement Datacenter.......... Kinda :p

xphil3 said:
gee, thanks for making me feel pathetic :p
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Rofl i didnt mean for that to happen. I just thought u were some genius teen whiz kid...but u prob are still a genius for having all that equipment which i could never even hope to dream about..
 
i love the monowall logo on that white server... have you played with pfsense? its monowall + lots of fun stuff
 
FLECOM said:
i love the monowall logo on that white server... have you played with pfsense? its monowall + lots of fun stuff
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The red 1u box is a pfsense box, love it too. Im going to grab another one of those soon, run them in transparent mode with carp(pfsync)...

UberGeek: I graduated from NEIT. Hows Marty and Tim doing? Tell them Marc(the one with the lip piercing) finally got his CCNA and is going to be taking the BSCI test soon.
 
well, update once again.....:p ... CCIE lab is totally complete(brother in law has the other half) minus the two 3560s that I will be buying when I get around to the lab. Right now im studying for the BSCI test :)

Let me know what you guys think
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xphil3 said:
Because I think Kaiga is so awesome, I have decided to give him my whole data center.
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yay! (plz? i'll love you forever :D)

Seriously tho real nice setup, I like how neat everything is. You win the internets.
 
personally I would put the 3600 units the other way around. esp since you have the 2900 which matches.

token ring stuff gone :confused: ?
 
I thought I was a nerd ;) Very nice setup man, too bad I'm not into networking enough, the simple stuff works for me
 
xphil3 said:
The red 1u box is a pfsense box, love it too. Im going to grab another one of those soon, run them in transparent mode with carp(pfsync)...

UberGeek: I graduated from NEIT. Hows Marty and Tim doing? Tell them Marc(the one with the lip piercing) finally got his CCNA and is going to be taking the BSCI test soon.
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I haven't had Marty or Tim yet.Did you ever have Bob Fogarty?
 
UberGeek427 said:
I haven't had Marty or Tim yet.Did you ever have Bob Fogarty?
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Nope, heard he was terrible. You will want Tim for cisco 4, and Marty for 2 and 3. Also, DO NOT GET DIPPIPO FOR ANY OF YOUR BS SECURITY CLASSES. He is the biggest tool on the planet. Do whatever you can to get Clark, hell... he let us do a REAL blackbag job on the FIRST day of class..... I had student records in my hands;) Lets just say that he wasn't allowed to do that anymore... hahaha
 
xphil3 said:
lol, nice man.... but in that p0rn collection is 15 sets of amateur pictures I have taken;)
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haha nice... i havent gotten my FTP login to that yet tho, email must have gotten lost :p

thats a whole lot of cisqo stuff man :eek:
 
xphil3 said:
Nope, heard he was terrible. You will want Tim for cisco 4, and Marty for 2 and 3. Also, DO NOT GET DIPPIPO FOR ANY OF YOUR BS SECURITY CLASSES. He is the biggest tool on the planet. Do whatever you can to get Clark, hell... he let us do a REAL blackbag job on the FIRST day of class..... I had student records in my hands;) Lets just say that he wasn't allowed to do that anymore... hahaha
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Bob's a really nice & funny guy. I had him for programming essentials.

I have this schedule next quarter for my tech classes:
Hardware Fundamentals -Howard D. Zisserson
Intermediate Programming -TBA
Windows Networking Essentials -Bruce E. Staehle
 
UberGeek427 said:
Bob's a really nice & funny guy. I had him for programming essentials.

I have this schedule next quarter for my tech classes:
Hardware Fundamentals -Howard D. Zisserson
Intermediate Programming -TBA
Windows Networking Essentials -Bruce E. Staehle
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When you go into Z's class.... yell out "ZZZZZzzzzzz-UNIT!"... trust me.. hahahah. We used to do it ALL the time

oh, Bruce is a windows server god too, he will most likely have an answer for any question relating to windows servers that you have. He is the man as well.

Mista ting,

This is my super duper BA cisco lab(well not THAT super), its much much better than the average lab. Its bascially taking me through my CCNP and CCIE(brother in law has the other half of the lab right now).

oh, on a positive note..... i took some more *NICE* pictures tonight(shes a 7 outta 10).... lets just say this... The first 3 people to IM me(AIM: maggot3x666) will get a quick peek at a pic.. bwhahahah
 
Oh please give me hope. I am currently following a CIS major at a lame Georgia college and I'm ready to just give up on school completely. I'm taking Micro Econ and Managerial accounting this semester and more to come. I chickened out and went CIS because it follows a BA and not a BS, so I didnt have to do any calculus which I fear I will suck royally at. All the stuff in this thread just makes me wanna scream because it is everything I want to learn. I already do a small amount of web hosting on a windows box for some locals and such, and I actually just recently got my first rack HERE and I'm trying to learn what I can on my own since none of those awesome sounding classes are available at my backwoods college.

Is it possible to learn any/all of this stuff on your own? I know it will probably take longer, but I have a real interest in security, I just dont have a clue where to start.

You really have an awesome setup though. What does your company do? I want to eventually work for myself I guess, but I'm just not sure if I want to go web programmer, or network design/implementation. It's just so damn hard to sit here and learn this crappy financial stuff when the world I really want access to is passing me by. I started at 16 working for a dialup ISP and have been working IT every since. But in 2001 a motorcycle accident left me in a wheelchair and I've been force to go to school in order to be in a decent size city where I can actually get around. I think private schools would be too much, and I'm not sure atlanta has any public technical colleges.

lol, sorry for being long winded... awesome setup though, keep it up.
 
well, you probably thought I had added more.... actually... its time to cut down. Electric bill was out of control with the Cisco lab now... I was going to write up a nice little paragraph or so... but im tired. Ill let the pics speak for themselves.
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Macro-esk:D
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and what's going on this badboy?
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Yep, you guessed it, ESX. I think a 15 machine virtual lab sounds good.....:D
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New server rack, im going to throw the door back on I think. Yes, Im keeping the 1.5-250gig TB p0rn server:p
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Alright, its insanely late for me.... let me know what you think.
 
and so it begins... the path to being poor but with cool toys :D :D
 
ESX.. nice.. :D

Let us know how it goes. I've been looking to set something similar up and was unsure what to run all my virtual PCs on
 
Nice, simply Nice.

Just out of interest do you need a seperate NIC for each virtual OS or does ESX manage them all through the two onboards?
 
young_one said:
Just out of interest do you need a seperate NIC for each virtual OS or does ESX manage them all through the two onboards?
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:eek: I hope not, that'd be awefully slow and painful with 15 Virtual PCs - when they're all using the network...:(
 
Icidic said:
:eek: I hope not, that'd be awefully slow and painful with 15 Virtual PCs - when they're all using the network...:(
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Hope not which way?

In any case, the answer is you can tie a VM to a NIC, or several NICs, or bridge them to a virtual switch. You can do rather complex things with the virtual network configuration (simulate packet loss, etc) or just have it work all the time.
 
Where did you get the Case and the rails? how much were the rails too? I havent found any for under $35 each shipped. And even that was a decent price.

You saw my rack in the other thread, I've been trying to find a switch for it, but was wondering... do you think I need a patch panel? I mean the only reason to get one is to make it look pretty right? I'd have like 5 ports used all the time, and when people bring me their computers to work on, i'd add them as they come, so I guess a patch panel would be nice for easy access if the switch is flipped around. *shrugs*
 
Well a patch panel is their mostly for organization and making fast and accessible changes to a circuit.
 
unhappy_mage said:
Hope not which way?
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In that I hope he doesn't have like 1 network card in there that all 15 VMs share ;) .

Shoulda been more clear lol, sorry :p .
 
Icidic said:
In that I hope he doesn't have like 1 network card in there that all 15 VMs share ;) .
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That's one of the things VMware lets you do. If network traffic is low enough, it's not a problem, and more convenient than requiring 15 network cards for those 15 VMs. I've seen six-port cards, but you'd need two of those and one four-port (so the host OS has its own, of course!). Letting it all work on one physical NIC is very helpful, and you can push VMs onto other interfaces as traffic warrants.
 
That and with the virtual switch the traffic between the virtual hosts never has to leave the system.
 
xphil3 said:
well, you probably thought I had added more.... actually... its time to cut down. Electric bill was out of control with the Cisco lab now... I was going to write up a nice little paragraph or so... but im tired. Ill let the pics speak for themselves.






Macro-esk:D



and what's going on this badboy?

Yep, you guessed it, ESX. I think a 15 machine virtual lab sounds good.....:D

New server rack, im going to throw the door back on I think. Yes, Im keeping the 1.5-250gig TB p0rn server:p


Alright, its insanely late for me.... let me know what you think.
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nice :D

how well do all those virtual machines run with 4GB of ram? I've got a machine I'm thinking of doing something similar with ... but I've only got 2 gigs of ram ... I'll probably need more :p

ps, what happened to all the cisco stuff? sold?
 
I have run GSX on top of Windows 2003 server with 2-3 VM's running at the same time (2 of which would be other Windows 2003 servers), with only 2GB of RAM. The windows VM's were a bit slow, since I statically allocated them 512MB of RAM.

I would imagine that ESX would be better since it runs as the OS (instead of on top of another OS), and should be able to handle memory better.
 
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