summoner
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Ho Ho Kus, NJ
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| Pics of my office part 2
Just did a few upgrades...part 1 is here.
P0000400.jpg - New rack layout. We de-commissioned our stackable Intel switches and moved to a chassis Alcatel 7800 OmniSwitch. That rackmount Smart-UPS at the bottom of the rack powers the 4 switches, firebox and 2 routers...the alcatel gets its own UPS.
P0000401.jpg - Cisco eat this  Those 4 2 slot gigabit cards will be replaced with 12-port high density cards soon
P0000402.jpg - Other half of our rack, 2 Cisco 1700 routers, WatchGuard Firebox, Cisco 3550 switch, Netgear gigabit, and 2 of our old Intels (for testing/backup purposes)
P000041.jpg - Behind the rack...more drops being added. To the left is the backend of the alcatel. Behind the switch (not visible is its UPS)
P0000504.jpg - 2 Netware 5.1 servers. Next to the desk is "Neo" an APC Matrix UPS 5000 with 2 Smart-Cell Battery packs...Estimated possible runtime of 15 hours on the batteries.
P000041 (6).jpg - Neo's backend. We have 2 more Matrix UPS 5000, Trinity and Morpheous. One for the alcatel and another one for more servers we plan on hooking up. Our electrician warned us, anymore power and our office would need it's own transformer installed!
P0000405.jpg - Our testing spot/storage/graveyard. New PC, servers built and tested here before we roll them out.
P0000406.jpg - 2 new Dell Poweredge 2650, dual xeon with 4 gigs of ECC mem each. We're clustering 2 win2k advanced servers for one of our applications. That bigger box in front of the servers is a Powervault 220S which is our SAN
P000041 (5).jpg - Closeup of servers
P000041 (4).jpg - Holding 9 Fujitsu 36 gig 15 thousand rpm drives.
P000041 (3).jpg - Telephone PBX. Not sure but I think we have 4 T1 circuits going into this thing just for voice.
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boethius
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|  Excellent network setup. Very clean - among the cleanest I've seen on this forum. It is not an easy thing to get dozens or hundreds of cables neatly cinched and dressed.
Now if you can just get your work to get you a cabinet for your servers you can get rid of the baker's rack. I hate baker's racks! If they can afford to drop the coinage on the 2650 and the SAN, they can probably afford a decent cabinet. You could also look at APC's 4-post open rack, which is considerably cheaper than a cabinet (about $400 last I looked) and can capacitate deep rackmount hardware like the 2650. Homaco also makes something, but I don't think it's as deep. In any case, it would suit the environment better than baker's rack. My $0.02 anyway.
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summoner
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| said by boethius  :
Excellent network setup. Very clean - among the cleanest I've seen on this forum. It is not an easy thing to get dozens or hundreds of cables neatly cinched and dressed.
You're telling me....about a day so far I've spent in front and behind that rack just dealing with cables, punching down new drops and organizing them.
said by boethius :
Now if you can just get your work to get you a cabinet for your servers you can get rid of the baker's rack. I hate baker's racks! If they can afford to drop the coinage on the 2650 and the SAN, they can probably afford a decent cabinet. You could also look at APC's 4-post open rack, which is considerably cheaper than a cabinet (about $400 last I looked) and can capacitate deep rackmount hardware like the 2650. Homaco also makes something, but I don't think it's as deep. In any case, it would suit the environment better than baker's rack. My $0.02 anyway.
Ahh...check out part one. I didn't bother posting that because we haven't changed it much...when we add our new servers, I'll post an update.
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drew
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about all I can say is I had to clean up some drool off my keyboard.
so organized.. so very organized. very nice man. |
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summoner
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said by boethius :
Excellent network setup. Very clean - among the cleanest I've seen on this forum. It is not an easy thing to get dozens or hundreds of cables neatly cinched and dressed.
said by drew :
so organized.. so very organized. very nice man.
Zip-ties and velcro wraps are your friends 
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TomS_
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OMG DROOL over that Dell SAN!!!!
GIMMIE more Dell. Heh im a bit of a dell fan
Got enough power going into that alcatel switch ? 
Either way VERY nice setup man. VERY nice. I wish i worked where you do. I'd be in heaven. Big network, nice dell servers. Its all there. Actually I wish I could say I worked at all :-P
Once again, good stuff.
BTW, what are those blue looking squares on the front of the 2650's ? Just to the right and down a bit from the Dell logo. Almost looks like a small TFT or something showing processor load. |
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Silentwolf
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Kingsport, TN
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| said by TomS_ :
BTW, what are those blue looking squares on the front of the 2650's ? Just to the right and down a bit from the Dell logo. Almost looks like a small TFT or something showing processor load.
Front mounted LCD alphanumeric display which shows error messages and codes and illuminates different colors to indicate system status. I think its a pretty cool thing to have when you are running a "lights out" operation. |
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KLNYC
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join:2000-11-26
Brooklyn, NY | reply to summoner
Damn those Dell SAN's sure kick ass, dude!
How is that Watchguard firewall anyway?
Very neat setup I gotta say
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summoner
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| said by KLNYC :
How is that Watchguard firewall anyway?
So far so good...it does NAT for our entire office. The real test is when we start hanging servers off the DMZ port and applying more rigid filtering policies. It also has the capability to deny/permit certain users internet/DMZ access based on their NT/2000 or LDAP group membership.
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DaMaGeINC
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I want to see a night shot of all of that. |
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KLNYC
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Brooklyn, NY | reply to summoner
Did I see Netware running on the left side of the monitor(p000405.jpg)?
Netware 6?
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summoner
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| said by KLNYC :
Did I see Netware running on the left side of the monitor(p000405.jpg)?
Netware 6?
Nah thats are "dialer server". This server keeps records of all calls made by our staff and maintains their telephone accounts. Its win2k pro and works in conjunction with our PBX. Our netware (version 5.1) servers are in pic P0000504.jpg That old PC next to the 2 Netware servers is our HVAC server...it talks to the thermostats and from this we set the temperature and zones.
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TomS_
debugger it
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Is that the optiplex desktop you're talking about ?
Can never have too much Dell |
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leet fitty
join:2001-11-17
leet city | reply to summoner
What model WatchGuard Firebox is that? Does it have two wan ports for your two routers? |
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summoner
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Ho Ho Kus, NJ
clubs: | Its a watchguard firebox 1000. It has 3 ports, one for wan, lan and dmz. We only have one data T1. We have a second router as a hot standby, it only gets used if the primary router fails.
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novellnewbie
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| hey summoner-
thats a really nice setup. You seem to be a Novell expert so I have a quick question for you....
Can I install Netware 6.0 on an AMD Athlon system?...I have heard that Netware does not like not Intel machines.
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summoner
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Ho Ho Kus, NJ
clubs: | Netware likes either chip, Intel or AMD. My NW6 server at home runs just fine on a P2-450.
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KLNYC
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join:2000-11-26
Brooklyn, NY | reply to novellnewbie
I ran NW6 in a p3-350 w/512meg of ram and still kick ass. Thats for lab test thou, I wouldnt dear run anything lower than that. At my home I ran celeron 1.2ghz with Groupwise, sofar no problem yet.
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summoner
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Run with 512 megs minimum, especially if you want to turn on every service and load every .nlm. My server at home has 320 megs (looking for a cheap stick of 512 pc133 if anyone wants to sell ) and my available memory floats anywhere from 20-35% free, so the server chokes at times. This is default installation plus routing, dns, dhcp, ndps printing and timesync loaded so it swaps to disk and slows down when a few people hit it all at once with file requests. Netware isn't a processor intensive OS but it loves memory.
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novellnewbie
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| Thanks for your help
I am interested in setting up a NW6 server at home because I already have a Win2k Server I would like to learn more about NetWare. Do you have any recomendations for setting up NetWare6 on a home LAN. Anything that comes to mind would be helpful
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