Update to my home network. Brought everything down to the basement to help with the heat and noise. Replaced my Powerconnect 2748 with 2x PC 5324s. GlaDOS got a processor upgrade, more RAM, and a new OS (as well as some new hard drives). And a couple new additions, a Dell PowerEdge 1850 (Cortana) running ESXi, and a Watchguard Firebox X700e running pfSense 2.0 Beta4
A quick little video tour of the home data center. I’ve moved about 30 miles from where I was and moving all of this was no easy task. Just glad to be up out of the basement. I’ve scaled down everything being used quite a bit as you can tell from none of the 1u Dells being powered on. I now use my DL380 G3 as my primary server, DHCP, DNS, RRAS, AD, File, virtual SAN server, storage, backup for remote clients, pretty much everything. The DL380 G2 is my first ESX 3.5 host, currently running four 6 VM’s, the Dell PowerApp 220 being my second ESX 3.5 Host running 3 VM’s, and a soon to be added HP DL360 G3 with 2x Dual core Xeon’s and I will be giving it 8 GB Ram. Once the DL360 comes in it will be deployed as a new ESX host and all of my current VM’s will be transferred to that host. meanwhile retiring my other two ESX host’s. I plan to sell one of them, the Dell PowerApp 220, and keep the DL380 G2 as a spare ESX host should the other go down for any reason. Give me your Comments and Rate the Video!
Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 connected to a Nexus 1000v on 2 Dell 1000m chassis. Upgrade from 1 6509 to a second 6509 with VSS that connects to the Nexus 5000. We moved all production equipment over a weekend. We had everything back online in less than 48 hours. We transformed the worst cabling and cheapest cabinets I have ever encountered into a layout that is one of the cleanest cabling and cabinets that I have ever seen. It was a rare opportunity to move the all our production equipment at the same time. Most companies our size would not have taken such a big risk.