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iGamer
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I'n about to get a few 25 foot cables That way I can eliminate at least one switch Hopefully just move to one Switch.... I know its a total mess.. 
On a side note... I find it funny that my Catalyst 2924XL-EN (built in '99) outperforms my Linksys SR216 (bought NIB a year ago)
I do plan on soon replacing the 2820 with some kind of decent 10/100 Switch (Managed Preferred) As server admin for my clan.. we host a big (50-75 peeps) Lan every summer, it will defintely be used (at least once a year)
On a side note v2.0 I totally forgot to put in my 2 lappys a Dell Latitude C400 (Great to travel with, forces me to take a break from gaming, and weight 3.5pounds) adn a 8 pounder HP Pavilion 5470 2.66GHz P4, Quake II incapable ATI Radeon Integrated Graphics)
On a side note... I find it funny that my Catalyst 2924XL-EN (built in '99) outperforms my Linksys SR216 (bought NIB a year ago)
I do plan on soon replacing the 2820 with some kind of decent 10/100 Switch (Managed Preferred) As server admin for my clan.. we host a big (50-75 peeps) Lan every summer, it will defintely be used (at least once a year)
On a side note v2.0 I totally forgot to put in my 2 lappys a Dell Latitude C400 (Great to travel with, forces me to take a break from gaming, and weight 3.5pounds) adn a 8 pounder HP Pavilion 5470 2.66GHz P4, Quake II incapable ATI Radeon Integrated Graphics)
I'n about to get a few 25 foot cables That way I can eliminate at least one switch Hopefully just move to one Switch.... I know its a total mess..
On a side note... I find it funny that my Catalyst 2924XL-EN (built in '99) outperforms my Linksys SR216 (bought NIB a year ago)
I do plan on soon replacing the 2820 with some kind of decent 10/100 Switch (Managed Preferred) As server admin for my clan.. we host a big (50-75 peeps) Lan every summer, it will defintely be used (at least once a year)
On a side note v2.0 I totally forgot to put in my 2 lappys a Dell Latitude C400 (Great to travel with, forces me to take a break from gaming, and weight 3.5pounds) adn a 8 pounder HP Pavilion 5470 2.66GHz P4, Quake II incapable ATI Radeon Integrated Graphics)
You have Cisco switches but no cable making tools
What are your opinions/thoughts/experiences with that NAS enclosure? I was thinking of buying one & dropping 2x 1TB Spinpoints in it, but I haven't been able to find any reviews about the box on the web.My network is just a simple wireless network, router WRT54GS, cable modem, and a network drive.
aaronearles
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My ghetto rack. It's mostly a CCNA lab.
Sorry about the crappy pics, I snapped the pics with my blackberry lol.
HP 2524 Production Switch
Cisco 2950 Lab Switch
Cisco 2950 Lab Switch
Cisco 2509 Lab Routers
Cisco 2509
Cisco 2511
48 Port Patch Panel
19" CRT for local access for staging lab servers
Dell 1650 pfSense firewall
Dell 1550 Windows Server 2008 Lab box
Dell 1550 Ubuntu 8.04 Server (file server)
Dell 2450 Windows XP workstation for labs/testing
And my rack visio:
Sorry about the crappy pics, I snapped the pics with my blackberry lol.
HP 2524 Production Switch
Cisco 2950 Lab Switch
Cisco 2950 Lab Switch
Cisco 2509 Lab Routers
Cisco 2509
Cisco 2511
48 Port Patch Panel
19" CRT for local access for staging lab servers
Dell 1650 pfSense firewall
Dell 1550 Windows Server 2008 Lab box
Dell 1550 Ubuntu 8.04 Server (file server)
Dell 2450 Windows XP workstation for labs/testing
And my rack visio:
Blitzrommel
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After waiting a long time to do my floors... Here's my setup.
So here's a basic shot of the rack. You get a small shot of my desk as well.
A bit closer in towards the top. You can see my Cisco Aironet 1131AG, UPS that backs up my network equipment, and monitor that currently isn't hooked up to anything. Eventually, I'll have my KVM switch.
A shot of the NeatPatch cable organizer. Worked very well for my project.
A shot of my three monitors - two Dell 1707FPc 17" monitors and a single Samsung SymcMaster 204B monitor. You can see a bit of wire clutter on the floor behind the desk, but I will be installing a wire trough (not to mention, I'll also tidy them up).
This will mount above my desk once I finish painting my rooms. Philips 32" LCD. It used to be on the side wall, but I want to be able to see if when I'm on my couch (to be placed on the opposite wall) when I want to watch a movie or TV...
A quick shot of my little surface mount box I made for my desktop and IP phone. Left one port open for if I want to have one of my laptops here, or if I want to hook up someone else's machine.
--
So you noticed my servers...
IBM x365 (Two of them)
4x 2.2GHz Xeon
8GB RAM
Not a whole lot of disk space, though I acquired a few 146GB drives.
6x Broadcom Gigabit NICs
VMWare ESX 3.5
IBM x345
2x 2.67GHz Xeon
4GB RAM
146GB usable disk space
2x onboard Gigabit
VMWare ESX 3.5
Between these three servers, I currently have 14 virtual machines running, two domain controllers, dhcp server, http server, sharepoint server, Asterisk gateway, Office Communicator 2007 server, SCCM 2007, among other things. They work pretty well; many of them do not suck up much CPU usage; having four slower processors isn't so bad. I just need to get my 146GB drives installed!
Homebrewed fileserver
ASUS M2N32 SLI Deluxe
Athlon64 x2 4200+ "Windsor" core
4GB DDR2 RAM
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64
2x 40GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives for host OS
4x 500GB Western Digital SATA drives for data storage
What can I say, the machine works. The most interesting feature is the enormous fan on the side of this case. (Enermax "Chakura")
This is all connected via a single HP ProCurve 1800-24G switch, with a second in reserve; I will be implementing it later down the road when I start hosting LAN parties in my garage, now that I hvae installed more power... (four 20A circuits will work just fine...)
So there ya have it.
So here's a basic shot of the rack. You get a small shot of my desk as well.
A bit closer in towards the top. You can see my Cisco Aironet 1131AG, UPS that backs up my network equipment, and monitor that currently isn't hooked up to anything. Eventually, I'll have my KVM switch.
A shot of the NeatPatch cable organizer. Worked very well for my project.
A shot of my three monitors - two Dell 1707FPc 17" monitors and a single Samsung SymcMaster 204B monitor. You can see a bit of wire clutter on the floor behind the desk, but I will be installing a wire trough (not to mention, I'll also tidy them up).
This will mount above my desk once I finish painting my rooms. Philips 32" LCD. It used to be on the side wall, but I want to be able to see if when I'm on my couch (to be placed on the opposite wall) when I want to watch a movie or TV...
A quick shot of my little surface mount box I made for my desktop and IP phone. Left one port open for if I want to have one of my laptops here, or if I want to hook up someone else's machine.
--
So you noticed my servers...
IBM x365 (Two of them)
4x 2.2GHz Xeon
8GB RAM
Not a whole lot of disk space, though I acquired a few 146GB drives.
6x Broadcom Gigabit NICs
VMWare ESX 3.5
IBM x345
2x 2.67GHz Xeon
4GB RAM
146GB usable disk space
2x onboard Gigabit
VMWare ESX 3.5
Between these three servers, I currently have 14 virtual machines running, two domain controllers, dhcp server, http server, sharepoint server, Asterisk gateway, Office Communicator 2007 server, SCCM 2007, among other things. They work pretty well; many of them do not suck up much CPU usage; having four slower processors isn't so bad. I just need to get my 146GB drives installed!
Homebrewed fileserver
ASUS M2N32 SLI Deluxe
Athlon64 x2 4200+ "Windsor" core
4GB DDR2 RAM
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64
2x 40GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives for host OS
4x 500GB Western Digital SATA drives for data storage
What can I say, the machine works. The most interesting feature is the enormous fan on the side of this case. (Enermax "Chakura")
This is all connected via a single HP ProCurve 1800-24G switch, with a second in reserve; I will be implementing it later down the road when I start hosting LAN parties in my garage, now that I hvae installed more power... (four 20A circuits will work just fine...)
So there ya have it.
Blitzrommel
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Nah, not so bad. But perhaps I'm used to it, or because I always work in datacenters.
Also, not shown are panels that cover the sides of the servers. They dampen the sound to a degree as well.
Also, not shown are panels that cover the sides of the servers. They dampen the sound to a degree as well.
A tech from my isp came out and fixed my dsl connection, replaced the phone line and added a single filter for the whole house and that never fixed the speeds so he went to the office and found out that the port was bad so now i have better speeds.
Here is the diagram, i might redo the network soon and add more stuff.
Here is the diagram, i might redo the network soon and add more stuff.
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Mapped out everything now.
I'll be adding a media extender into the mix shortly.
I had an opportunity to buy all of this stuff... the Dell PowerEdges were anywhere from $500 to $1000. I ended up buying 2 DL360's... one is G2 and one G3 for $50 and $200, respectively.
It was an auction... a trucking company went out of business and a lot of this stuff went for cheap. I spent about $1200... $175 x 4 various servers; $200 for a DL360; $50 for a DL360; $20 for an HP LaserJet 5sxi printer; $10 for a HP LaserJet 1012 printer; $25 for an HP LaserJet 3600 printer; etc.
It was an auction... a trucking company went out of business and a lot of this stuff went for cheap. I spent about $1200... $175 x 4 various servers; $200 for a DL360; $50 for a DL360; $20 for an HP LaserJet 5sxi printer; $10 for a HP LaserJet 1012 printer; $25 for an HP LaserJet 3600 printer; etc.
Update to my Home Network. This is getting installed tomorrow along with cabling the entire house in Cat6.
1u Shelf (Cable Modem, ASA5505 will reside here)
24port Cat6 patch panel
16port 3Com Baseline 2816 (16x 10/100/1000 L2 un-managed switch)
Also starting to pick up stuff from my CCIE:Voice Lab. No pics, but atm I have a 2x Intel 5120, 8gb, 2x146gb SAS 1u server hopefully running Vmware ESXi. The VM's will consist of any Cisco server products i'll need. I also have a 2651 and 1760-V inbound.
1u Shelf (Cable Modem, ASA5505 will reside here)
24port Cat6 patch panel
16port 3Com Baseline 2816 (16x 10/100/1000 L2 un-managed switch)
Also starting to pick up stuff from my CCIE:Voice Lab. No pics, but atm I have a 2x Intel 5120, 8gb, 2x146gb SAS 1u server hopefully running Vmware ESXi. The VM's will consist of any Cisco server products i'll need. I also have a 2651 and 1760-V inbound.
agrikk
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We are expanding our server room to accommodate a new 4-post cabinet.
With the walls torn down I took the opportunity to snap some pics of our current setup:
With the walls torn down I took the opportunity to snap some pics of our current setup:
agrikk
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Yep. It is totally gonna fall.
A two post telcom rack wasn't meant to hold a 150lb server. Especially when my noob desktop support guy leans on it to plug in a cable.
Notice the four 1U servers midway up the other rack. If you look carefully at them you'll notice that they are racked at a slant. This is also because of my noob desktop guy who racked the original one one screw-hole off and couldn't be bothered to fix it. So now all of the other servers are also racked one screw-hole off.
When the cabinet arrives, I'm pulling all of that crap out of the rack and doing it properly myself.
Who the hell pulls crap like that? :argh:
A two post telcom rack wasn't meant to hold a 150lb server. Especially when my noob desktop support guy leans on it to plug in a cable.
Notice the four 1U servers midway up the other rack. If you look carefully at them you'll notice that they are racked at a slant. This is also because of my noob desktop guy who racked the original one one screw-hole off and couldn't be bothered to fix it. So now all of the other servers are also racked one screw-hole off.
When the cabinet arrives, I'm pulling all of that crap out of the rack and doing it properly myself.
Who the hell pulls crap like that? :argh:
Your guess is as good as mine!Yep. It is totally gonna fall.
A two post telcom rack wasn't meant to hold a 150lb server. Especially when my noob desktop support guy leans on it to plug in a cable.
Notice the four 1U servers midway up the other rack. If you look carefully at them you'll notice that they are racked at a slant. This is also because of my noob desktop guy who racked the original one one screw-hole off and couldn't be bothered to fix it. So now all of the other servers are also racked one screw-hole off.
When the cabinet arrives, I'm pulling all of that crap out of the rack and doing it properly myself.
Who the hell pulls crap like that? :argh:
Your desktop support guy?
Update to my Home Network. This is getting installed tomorrow along with cabling the entire house in Cat6.
1u Shelf (Cable Modem, ASA5505 will reside here)
24port Cat6 patch panel
16port 3Com Baseline 2816 (16x 10/100/1000 L2 un-managed switch)
Also starting to pick up stuff from my CCIE:Voice Lab. No pics, but atm I have a 2x Intel 5120, 8gb, 2x146gb SAS 1u server hopefully running Vmware ESXi. The VM's will consist of any Cisco server products i'll need. I also have a 2651 and 1760-V inbound.
When your down the project, post some pictures. Where you get that 3U rack?
I see that your a south park fan.
This thread is being beat by the UTM thread!!!! are you kidding me.... I remember when this used to be the bread and butter of n&s forum.... come on guys, lets get this rolling again... pictures, comments, more pictures... etc. Heres my contrib, Im moving out of NC soon and up to the northern VA area so my network is currently "torn down". Heres an "inventory"
First and second is the overview shot(great for insurance purposes).
Third and fourth are some misc LCD's, a couple Sunray 1's, two SB5100's(modded of course), Xbox 1(x3, evox & XBMC), APC information controller running pfsense.
The Two servers are,
top:
dual quad core 5310
12gigs DDR2
1TB raid 5
ESX 3.5 --> ~12 virtual machines including interclustered trunk call manager environment, windows 2003 domain site and GC to multiple *nix servers(web,nms, etc).
bottom:
AMD xp3200+
1gig DDR
1.2TB raid 5
File-server --> Solaris 10U3 w/ ZFS(drive failed, not running right now.. main computer has 1.5TB)
and in the back you can see the onkyo HT system.
The next few pics are very self explanatory, its a healty mix of my "active" network running all day everyday and my CCIE pod/MPLS playground/whatever I want.... WRT54G v9 or something running DDWRT as a bridge for my xbox which couldn't get a direct ethernet drop
This is just for the NC portion of my network btw..
LETS START THIS BITCH BACK UP!!
First and second is the overview shot(great for insurance purposes).
Third and fourth are some misc LCD's, a couple Sunray 1's, two SB5100's(modded of course), Xbox 1(x3, evox & XBMC), APC information controller running pfsense.
The Two servers are,
top:
dual quad core 5310
12gigs DDR2
1TB raid 5
ESX 3.5 --> ~12 virtual machines including interclustered trunk call manager environment, windows 2003 domain site and GC to multiple *nix servers(web,nms, etc).
bottom:
AMD xp3200+
1gig DDR
1.2TB raid 5
File-server --> Solaris 10U3 w/ ZFS(drive failed, not running right now.. main computer has 1.5TB
)and in the back you can see the onkyo HT system.
The next few pics are very self explanatory, its a healty mix of my "active" network running all day everyday and my CCIE pod/MPLS playground/whatever I want.... WRT54G v9 or something running DDWRT as a bridge for my xbox which couldn't get a direct ethernet drop
This is just for the NC portion of my network btw..
LETS START THIS BITCH BACK UP!!
sdotbrucato
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This thread is being beat by the UTM thread!!!! are you kidding me.... I remember when this used to be the bread and butter of n&s forum.... come on guys, lets get this rolling again... pictures, comments, more pictures... etc. Heres my contrib, Im moving out of NC soon and up to the northern VA area so my network is currently "torn down". Heres an "inventory"
First and second is the overview shot(great for insurance purposes).
Third and fourth are some misc LCD's, a couple Sunray 1's, two SB5100's(modded of course), Xbox 1(x3, evox & XBMC), APC information controller running pfsense.
The Two servers are,
top:
dual quad core 5310
12gigs DDR2
1TB raid 5
ESX 3.5 --> ~12 virtual machines including interclustered trunk call manager environment, windows 2003 domain site and GC to multiple *nix servers(web,nms, etc).
bottom:
AMD xp3200+
1gig DDR
1.2TB raid 5
File-server --> Solaris 10U3 w/ ZFS(drive failed, not running right now.. main computer has 1.5TB
and in the back you can see the onkyo HT system.
The next few pics are very self explanatory, its a healty mix of my "active" network running all day everyday and my CCIE pod/MPLS playground/whatever I want.... WRT54G v9 or something running DDWRT as a bridge for my xbox which couldn't get a direct ethernet drop
This is just for the NC portion of my network btw..
LETS START THIS BITCH BACK UP!!
Damn xphil3, busting out the big guns.
Nice gear, it's nice to see a [H]ard setup in this thread once again!
priteshvarsani
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HOLY CRAP!
You dont have a home network big enough to use all that stuff ? Not even a normal lab would need that much stuff ?
Must be at lease 15K worth of stuff there. Must have cost a fortune to geh hold of (Or you have links to a company that got liquidated). Post up some more pix wehn ya actually set up your network ini
You dont have a home network big enough to use all that stuff ? Not even a normal lab would need that much stuff ?
Must be at lease 15K worth of stuff there. Must have cost a fortune to geh hold of (Or you have links to a company that got liquidated). Post up some more pix wehn ya actually set up your network ini
Thanks for the comments you guys.
heh..... Yes, I have a home network being enough to use this and I run the services to use it as well. A normal lab? What kind of lab have you been in where they have have 1000x this equipment? I guess I work for a company with outrageous labs(I actually do)
15K worth of stuff total? the 6K itself *used* is worth ~20k on ebay.... Like I said, this is JUST the NC portion of my network. Check out page 8, post 153. You can see my WAN diagram. Also, the bulk of the routers once again is going to rebuild my CCIE pod when I move to NVA, or my MPLS testbed if I pass my IE first time around...ugh, 3 more days
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1110097
That was my old thread, ive pretty much been doing this for a very very long time.
One more pic that I didn't get to post up, how my network sits right now.... LOL
maxed 3745 + 2960G.. sweet!
heh..... Yes, I have a home network being enough to use this and I run the services to use it as well. A normal lab? What kind of lab have you been in where they have have 1000x this equipment? I guess I work for a company with outrageous labs(I actually do
)15K worth of stuff total? the 6K itself *used* is worth ~20k on ebay.... Like I said, this is JUST the NC portion of my network. Check out page 8, post 153. You can see my WAN diagram. Also, the bulk of the routers once again is going to rebuild my CCIE pod when I move to NVA, or my MPLS testbed if I pass my IE first time around...ugh, 3 more days
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1110097
That was my old thread, ive pretty much been doing this for a very very long time.
One more pic that I didn't get to post up, how my network sits right now.... LOL
maxed 3745 + 2960G.. sweet!
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xphil3 that is the most ridiculous amount of equipment for one to have in ones house
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and what would be the point? lol
xphil3 that is the most ridiculous amount of equipment for one to have in ones house
It's [H]ard!
Nope, He works for Cisco. I know many Cisco employee's homes that look similar.
Captain Colonoscopy
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no shit, don't you have to have a 220 outlet for that??
synaptical
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xphil3 that is the most ridiculous amount of equipment for one to have in ones house
I agree. He needs to send some of it to me.
Not sure if I should say good catch becuase you really can't see the PSU's in any of the shots that I took... but you're right in that case. The current PSU's that are in there are for 220.... the only 110V PSU that I had is in texas now with my old roomate.
only 30 bucks on ebay.... pretty nice eh?
Some explaining is in order I guess, and feel free to give your opinions at any time. The router and switches are all going into my CCIE pod, except for the cat6k. The POD will probably old be powered on for a few hours every day(after work while studying) and I split the power with 2 other people now.... so its not bad at all. Everything else in the pictures is running all day, everyday. Im also trying to figure out some kind of nice video over IP solution with te IPTV box that I have as well... all in the works.
. If you need an explanation of why I have so many IP phones.. check out my WAN diagram.
I have been thinking about doing away with the 3745 and 2960 and replacing it with the cat6k... power wise it would not be too much of a difference.... the 3745+2960 comes in at around 350 actual wattage... where as a fully loaded cat6k, dual supervisor 2G's and 4 IP phones hooked up comes in at 425 actual watts.... Many of your home computers suck more than that...
Wes gets the cookie.... I do work for Cisco and they treat their employees very well. So no network liquidation here, just MY equipment.
Holy shit that thing uses 1300w, do you need a separate power breaker and outlet to run it?