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RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake T. Pfankuch)
Sun Aug 14 21:28:24 2011
From: "Blake T. Pfankuch" <blake@pfankuch.me>
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>, Charles N Wyble
<charles@knownelement.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:27:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: <27322.1313195398@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I'm with this too, my house is much less complicated than it used to be. I=
have dual WAN (Comcast Business Class and cheap DLS as a failover), fed in=
to my Cisco 3750 "core" switch. I have a Sonicwall NSA2400 as my primary G=
ateway from LAN, with a Secondary Gateway of my Cisco UC520 (mostly for tes=
ting the 64 bit VPN client when it came out, and I haven't changed anything=
back). I have a third firewall for working on projects from home which is=
just a virtual IPCop Machine which I use to segregate devices with conflic=
ting subnets during projects for work.
I have VMware ESX running on a few servers I just pulled back from a colo (=
Asus 1u half depth single E5510 Xeons with 32gb of ram each) running iscsi =
off my open filer iscsi storage device with 16x 2tb drives and my old openf=
iler with 8x 1.5tb and 8x 1tb. Layer 3 routing done at my 3750, with a cis=
co 1142 AP serving voice, data and guest wireless. =20
Internal IPv4 3x /25, 2x /26, 2x /27 and 2x /28 non routed for the iscsi. =
Externally only a /28 and a /29. Internal IPv6 5x /64 because I haven't ha=
d any time to set up IPv6 for my Guest wireless, voice or iSCSI. External =
IPv6 awaiting Comcast to get my IPv6 trial going, and Centurytel to offer I=
Pv6 in my area. Voice service provided by Broadvoice (SIP) feeding into th=
e UC520 for the alarm system. =20
Of course the obligatory video games (xbox 360, wii and my girlfriends PS3 =
when she brings it over) all live in the guest VLAN, which sadly get used m=
ore for Netflix anymore than actual video games... Media center on the TV =
is a home brew mini ITX pc with a mid range core2duo in it. =20
For power, I love the APC stuff. I have a Rack Mount 3000va and 2 shoebox =
1500va boxes as backup. All fed back to the panel an 2 separate circuits.
At one point I did have 4 full racks in the guest room and a partial DS3 (a=
bout 10 years back), with a dedicated AC unit and about 30KVA of UPS. Too =
much, too expensive. Colo somewhere close and cheaper circuits is the way =
I went and I've cut my power bill from over a grand a month to under $100 i=
n the winter. Lets not talk summer.... I need new windows :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]=20
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 6:30 PM
To: Charles N Wyble
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:28:57 CDT, Charles N Wyble said:
> I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? On=20
> the extreme end of course we have mr morris :) with his uber lab:=20
> http://smorris.uber-geek.net/lab.htm
He doesn't get out much, does he? :)
> So what's in NANOGers home networks/compute centers? :)
Surprisingly minimalistic - a Linksys cablemodem and a Belkin Play wireless=
router, both from Best Buy, a Dell Latitude laptop from work, and a PS/3. =
I'll upgrade if and when Comcast deploys IPv6 or other stuff worth upgradi=
ng in my area. ;)
(I used to have more gear, but it came down to floor space for compute gear=
I didn't use versus guitar gear I *do* use.. ;)
