VLOG: Moving Day & Network Arrays!
September 4, 2019 by warzan
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Good luck!
I certainly don’t miss the days of building/rebuilding network racks! 😀
@warzan goodluck with the change, I am sure you won’t need it but if you do have any problems and I can assist just shout.
Octopussy hell? Oh sweet summer child…. you haven’t seen anything… I’ve seen *way* worse. But why are you making long patch cables? Usually, when pulling cables from a server room to workstation room you terminater the WS end in a wall mount box and the server room side in a patch panel. And that patch panel is then linked into the main switch. And please tell me you’ve got an off site backup of you most valuable data as well because if anything happens to the store and you don’t have an off site backup you’re screwed. @warzan if you… Read more »
My guess at an answer is probably cost, by the looks of things it a server room in the looses term, if they was a proper server cabinet the termination into patch panel would make sense but my best is they are just going directly into the switch. Saving on patch panel, cat 6 cables etc
For an environment that size you need to way up the cost. I would rather spend more say on the switches looking at layer 3 over 2 and not putting something live that is out of support and has some horrendous firmware venerability
Trouble is, when they need 10G network the hardware gets expensive fast. And I don’t think that a CAT6 patch panel and wall mounted boxes would have added much cost. But it would have made it more versatile because you could plug in what ever length of LAN cable you’d need. But they are all grown ups… um… old enough to know what they are doing 😉
Budgets are really tight mate so it really was a case of ‘it took everything’ to get the 10G network and storage array.
So everything else we have to bootstrap i’m afraid.
You shouldn’t have bought all those Fezes 😉
Hey, Fez’s are a great investment! ??
@sundancer cat6 couplers are even cheaper, last keystone patch panel i had was just couplers on a bit of tin lol
I have to agree, the octopussy hell is nothing compared to what is out there.
@sundancer no need to worry about any of the web stuff being backed up, already is and spread all over europe to boot 🙂 plus this is not first (nor will it be the last) move, so its far easier to just pull cables through the ceiling and drop down, while i agree modular faceplates, rainbow cables (colour coding by traffic and purpose), patch panels and even a rack would be very nice. The office infrasructure is surprisingly minimial, few PoE web cams, cat5 to workstations, separate 10G network, couple of PoE switches and an ISP provided router, nas box,… Read more »
@timchubb when I spoke of backup I was thinking of the back office side of things. Customer data, sales data, inventory, tax relevant documents, invoices etc.
Even if only two things are rack mountable a small server cabinet with lockable doors makes a huge difference in sound. But I’m sure you’re aware of that 😉
Dont worry cult leader @warzan ! Its seems chaos is strong in OntableTop HQ . Moving around with cables can be a nightmare, I have sadly seen worse….
But im sure its gonna work out in the end, and all will be grand!
@avernos can solve evry tech issue 😉
hit it with a bone!
Looks like fun! Well, the organizational kind of fun.. the have a pint afterwards kind..
Tab A goes into Slot B or how to lose your mind clipping wires.
Mistook the close up of coiled purple cables for some kind of epoxy putty.
Disappointed I didn’t learn about ‘purple stuff.’
When I saw @avernos there touching icky tech it looked like the twilight zone.
the only touching was picking things up and moving it.
mostly moving heavy things was my forte
I think you’d be surprised at how unorganized, inefficient and chaotic the average business is …
OTT/BoW is not quite as bad.
Heck, the fact that you know it sucks and are taking steps to fix it is something a lot of companies don’t even get to until the proverbial excrement hits the spinning blade for real.
This looks like something that would be helpful for the Chamber of Commerce @warzan 🙂
Good luck !!! See you on the other side 🙂
The Sasquatch hug has to become part of the cultist bundle, I mean, I know I can use one.
mawwwh *hugs Amanda*
always have a hug for you
what about the velociraptors are they still up?
was on the maintenance squad and that looks better than the internet hub they had for the (centre for learning) for one of their building’s when I worked their, professionals hay.
RJ45 connectors and a crimping tool – ohh joy, you are living the dream today
Now I can say I gone number 1 or 2 in the BoW server room
@warzan at least you have a diagram, more than enough places i have cabled came with no diagram and just aget it done by end of day lads 😛 And dont be embarressed about a repurposed bog, lost count of the number of former bogs ive wired out. Double crimp your plugs, it helps saves so many hassles when you come and test the runs, otherwise you can end up with weird intermittant issues… Good luck And let me know if you want to partition the 1G network into vlans, its probably over kill, but would be useful if you… Read more »
hope alls gone well with the mass re networking, am guessing thats the reason i was getting an error 1015 message saying my account was temp banned