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Had a look at one of our datacentres this week. Obviously no photos etc, but damn it's impressive!
Show Us Your Racks
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I'm estimating we have at least 60 racks for spare equipment so it's not too bad and then the store room (ok that is quite messy
).At least it's there for when you need it!
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I'm estimating we have at least 60 racks for spare equipment so it's not too bad and then the store room (ok that is quite messy
At least it's there for when you need it!
The kit that we have will never ever ever get used ever ever again.
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so what they just have it all stacked there for emergencies? best to be safe than sorry
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I always wonder what puts Cisco ahead of the rest, only used basic Cisco routers and switches during my studying but will be introduced to the higher end stuff over the next couple of years. Asking in a Cisco office isn't going to get me the best answer!
Going to fiddle with a few 7606s on Monday - even though I have no idea about them
Going to fiddle with a few 7606s on Monday - even though I have no idea about them
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I always wonder what puts Cisco ahead of the rest, only used basic Cisco routers and switches during my studying but will be introduced to the higher end stuff over the next couple of years. Asking in a Cisco office isn't going to get me the best answer!
Going to fiddle with a few 7606s on Monday - even though I have no idea about them
Stability, security & features.
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Not really a home network shouldn't be complicated unless it is a lab. Even then you can just use emulators really rather than spend or hog up space and use a lot of electricity.
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Ah Ok i was hoping for an excuse to build these home rack setups lol but dont need the hassle from the family
Noise, power consumption = trouble
Heres my little home set up with a 12U rack, I have set up the 3rd small bedroom of my house into a little office/man cave for myself, I installed network ports around the house and all come back up to this room.
There are a couple of before pics when it was sat on the shelf and a heap of mess and then a pic of it neated up with 1 of my 2 HP Microservers and a new UPS.
Kit wise I have an APC network controlled power switch, Virgin 50mb Broadband modem, Netgear Prosafe VPN Router, Dlink gigabit switch, 1 Microserver is for a NAS, the other backup and the huuuuuge Xigamax case houses my SR2 VMware ESXi server with 2 x hex core Xeons @ 4.2ghz, 24 threads of watercooled goodness
What is the small glass case you use and how much was it?
I'm a bit lost with all your kit! Could you please explain what is in each photo if it's not too much trouble
Pretty switches
I hope you'll be spreading these out a bit or we've in for the worlds worst cabling job pic..
Cable management ftw.
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Ok so it is pretty much empty, but that will change with a bit of time.
*Image of rack*
Slowly starting to fill it up.
Bottom is a Cisco 3550, middle and top are 2950G. Big thing next to the rack is just a 6509 chassis.
Came with 2x 3000W (I think) power supplies and the more powerful fan tray. Just needs a decent
supervisor and some line cards before it can be used.
Been using these & GNS3 for some Cisco labs. Was moving them around when I took the pic hence
the lack of cables.
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lol at the chassis You're going to regret that in a year or two when its sat doing nothing and taking up a chunk of your room [/voiceofexperience]
You're going to regret that in a year or two when its sat doing nothing and taking up a chunk of your room [/voiceofexperience]
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It was only £60, worth it for a bit of fun.
But it's so big
Sold my Skeletek 16U rack last night as well as 2 routers. Only got the 1 router to sell now. Room feels empty!
Got my 4 x 1841 Routers (1 as a terminal server) and 3 x Cisco WS-3650-48TS Switches setup at work though, so I'm happy.
Sold my Skeletek 16U rack last night as well as 2 routers. Only got the 1 router to sell now. Room feels empty!
Got my 4 x 1841 Routers (1 as a terminal server) and 3 x Cisco WS-3650-48TS Switches setup at work though, so I'm happy.
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It was only £60, worth it for a bit of fun.
For £60.00 I wouldn't have bothered ha!