 Got a film like this you got to turn it like this and like this This is our mess Mistakes have been made well things have been added and now it's the problem We did it right and then we added a bunch of stuff removed a few things that added more things and now we've got more things coming So this is the rebuild because I am not satisfied with yeah, okay It doesn't look horrible except for that one wire, but that's for the air rectangle But it's we need to put more stuff in here, and I'm not satisfied that like you know You hear the stories going hey the mechanics cars always broke no Even this is too messy for me So we're actually going to cut out all of this pick all the servers out clean this and re-rack it and Make it perfect again. It's almost good, but it's gonna be great make it great again. That's it So Steve on a scale of 1 to 10 how over this project are you? Seven seven all right So we got done finishing cleaning up some of the wiring and That annoys me a lot when the wiring is not the way I want I'm not someone who will just let it be but over time We did add things and then we have to schedule the time to take this all down in a weekend and clean it all up Well enough of that. Let's talk about what's in here first. Let's talk about this rack itself besides being my Stuff that runs my company and of course also being the lab that I produce a lot of these YouTube videos on and storage for Lots of other things and just many projects that we have going on here The rack itself in case you're wondering is an old telecom rack from a company that went out of business And I mentioned that because this is not it's standard in terms of width It's not standard in terms of depth which is also why we don't have regular slide-out rails in it I always want to cover a couple of these things for the people who leaving your comments But you should have put these rails or that thing. Yeah, they don't really fit in here And okay I could go out and buy a bigger deeper rack But then the door that is right adjacent that I can't open or knock the camera over Swings by and there's a scratch right here of how close it comes to touching this If we got a bigger deeper rack Things would not fit in here as well. We've just had this for a while So I just want to address those things because well someone has criticisms I figured these are some of the reasons why I did it the way I did it I do know how to do it the other way and we frequently do for clients Especially when the budget says make this all really nice and pretty beautiful slide-out rails are a wonderful thing I don't have any though not it won't fit in this rack so first we love to put stickers on here and that's definitely This I don't know it looks boring without it and of course LEDs inside of here, so there's a lot of LEDs that we have all over it because I don't know it makes the bits go faster At least in theory. So here's the door problem. I was talking about the door just clears this Now we can't open this so we got to do this and now we're in we'll start right here at the top So at the top we have the unified USG 16 10 gig switch with SFPs So these are four SFPs for our four servers that creates the 10 gigabit storage network And we have one cable that connects from the unified 24 port switch to the 10 gig That keeps the 10 gig so we can bridge over the network if we have other things we want to do in there We also have up top here the Unify Testing device that we've been testing for a little while well We have the production one and we're getting ready to do a review part of it was installing this 10 gig switch I did a review of so we can get the 10 gig Unify access point the base station XG reviewed so that review is coming next but this is the rack review So that's connected in here at 10 gig So we have one cable going up here for the 10 gig for that connection then we have This unmanaged switch in the middle and if you've watched an old review of this people complain Why do you have any unmanaged switches? This is my special what I refer to as my dot-two or security network My security network is separate physically from my other networks because it's where the virtual machines And things attached that are specifically Stuff we don't want connected to anything else except for exclusively based on ACLs and rules and things like that And that's all handled by PSS So this is a physically separate network. That's why there's an unmanaged switch There's not really a need to put a managed one in there Because I don't want to even I don't want to risk having it separate on v-lands Look up v-land hopping. I know there's mitigations for it, but just in case then of course the unify 24 switch now these Black ones here are go around to computers in the office these white ones go to the servers So we patch everything into the patch panel here and this one red one in case you're wondering and maybe someone Who obsessively goes no, why aren't they all matching colors that happens to go to the pf sense That's just how we label things So I know the white ones are for servers and they're all labeled And then I know the red one goes to the pf sense box once again. It's all punched down Then these yellow ones these ones go to the very front switch. So I'll show you that in a second There's just a secondary the idf in the front of the building because well, we have a shop area We have a tech area. We still do retail computer repair So there's all these computers that come in and well, I want them on separate networks Well, they get v-land So they come out of here and the v-lands go to an eight port unify up front And then to some more dumb switches because of the quantity of switches And we don't really need a bunch of them out there like that So that's what these ones do Pretty simple there next thing down. This is our kvm So the kvm allows me just to switch real quick between any under any other computer in here And it's just a handy usb kvm actually because they're all linux machines if you're wondering where the mouse is That's they're all linux machines. We don't use mice in the linux world But it allows me to quickly switch between any of the servers. We have room for Eight of them, but we've only got six hookup right now Then an xbox below that is going to that's the pf sense Yes, I know it's not a rack mount, but I had this really nice higher end With a ratery in it hp pro liant that was Well, it's a long story. How we didn't pay for it. It came for free So I use it for the pf sense. It works really great It's got a really nice dn processor in there and it's nice. It's way overkill. You don't need something this fast It's fun because anything I throw at it it boots up instantly and can Process stuff like n-top works really well or other advanced things we try with it Uh ignore this next server down. It doesn't exist. Uh, it's belongs to a client. We manage it here It's a separate thing that won't be listed here. So then we have our r7 10s. These are what run a lot of our stuff Yes, I know their older servers. They get the job done and each of these has an sfp 10 sfp plus 10 gig in there that goes back up to the switch So 10 gig 10 gig 10 gig 10 gig now these are our two free nas boxes Dozer tank and this is just a big j-bod and it's custom built consumer hardware There's people that complain you can't build it on consumer hardware without ecc. It'll fail. It's never failed knock on wood Um, but we really haven't any problems with it other than when you try to load it up There are recede or some performance limitations because it is an older i5 processor This is not limitations because it's consumers hardware It is limitation the fact that it's older piece of hardware So, uh, it does not have the iops performance. We would like that's also why we have this one here This is still older, but a newer much faster System for those and i'll maybe i'll do some review specifically more detailing out the hardware on your people are interested Um, but this right here is our primary free nas and this is our secondary free nas So we have redundancy between them For all the data because you can't just have data in one place you need to have it multiple places So once again, all of these have a tie to the storage network that allows for 10 gig access between them that way when we're transferring vms between zen servers We got 10 gig of its speed between them to pass around Vms if you're doing them live, it's great. Uh, it works really well And then for storage, of course, this is great to be able to say Hey, we've got these mounted across here via ice cozy and nfs This is where you've seen some of the testing i've done or things i've done in my lab And once again, it's nice to have that 10 gig connection to be able to pull those through now I just can't get back here far enough with my main camera. So i'm using my phone here to show you Here's all the sfp cables that are plugged in Here is how we label everything in the back. So the dot 2 network is all labeled with This and this is all cat 6 is the black cable and then our vlan and dot 3 network is all these cables And that repeats throughout the whole physical connection that way when we're plugging these in it's really obvious Which ones go where And which ones are on which network now One of the other things someone's going to point out is yes I know I have some power supplies unplugged and the reason that these are dual power supply systems But when we're rewiring it, uh, we didn't have the right connectors And if you can maybe my phone can pick this up This rack has some unit connectors and we were a couple short. So uh, yes that's a temporary solution of slide the power supply out so it doesn't beep and Uh, this allows us for we said the redundancy is just not plugged in right now And uh, we will get the other power cords in I just felt like doing the video today because I had time and we just finished all of this And how to swing back you can see why I had to take the door off This is the hinge the door swings out towards us. So we can't swing it back that way and uh, let me walk backwards a little bit You can see how difficult and tight this gets in here and away we go. Also. Here's a look at all the stickers All right Let me do this this and then of course all this gets Physically locked. There's locks inside of this and latches to Hold all this nice and tight and close so people can't come back here and fiddle with it But honestly once someone gets physical access, um, I don't care how good and how hard the steel is on this It's definitely, um, they're gonna get through it If they got time and or they'll just roll the whole thing out That's why all these drives and I will comment on this real quick Everything has a password on boot. All these free NAS drives will not decrypt without the password that way anytime anything starts You have to have the password. So if you were to somehow, um, take all this with you somewhere else Nothing would boot. You do have to physically type passwords in these to get them. It's inconvenient to reboot remotely I get it. But on the other side is uh security Because this is always the first question people like to ask this is called Uh, why works yet yet another editor? It's what I'm doing to make all my network graphs been using for a while. It's free So if you want to make network graphs with it, it's pretty cool and you can make them online pretty neat All right, now that we've covered that This is the physical you've seen the physical layer. Let's talk about the software layer or software to find networking layers that are involved in here So in the rack is all this yellow. This is a bigger view. We'll keep it zoomed in though In the rack is all this yellow here. There's the pf sense box. There's the comcastic craptastic internet that we have There is whoops the 24 port unify. So the 24 port unify is carrying all the vlands And the dot three network as we call it. So that plugs into the Zen server one Zen server two Uh tank and dozer the two free NAS boxes Then we have the security network So if we want vms to attach a security network, they attach to a physically different network interface Hence the reason you seen two cables back there So the this one and this one connect to the 24 part unmanage managed by the pf sense So it is a physical separated network controlled by the firewall rules within pf sense to allow or not allow devices to Attach themselves or you know do any type of routing on that network. It's very finely controlled for security Then we have the connection that goes to the 16 port 10 gig unify now. This is the Storage network now the storage network is not at all defined As a network inside of pf sense because there's no routing not and actually we have more vlands and even this I'm just keeping it simple Because this is you can use vlands without a gateway and I'm not defined by your router In unify or really any system and what you do with those is that's how we build More pf sense or any other firewall that we're testing We can attach it to its own vlan and have its own routing and everything for when I do my lab work And storage is kind of the same way. There's no routing within storage. It's just a flat common network range and it has Each server on that network statically assigned because they don't try to route through it There's no gateway for any of these servers, but they can all talk to each other And of course by doing that they're all talking at a 10 gigabit link And this is what it looks like inside of unify in case you're wondering So here's each of those and there's the zennifer Tank zennifer 2 and the dozer ones They're all white for showing that they are connected at 10 gig Our umplink because the 24 port switch does not have a 10 gig port is only linked to gigabit And this gigabit link here goes to the air rectangle, which we'll be doing a review, which is the base station x g So like I said, we've been doing some testing It is new on next on review a couple of people have messaged me. Hey, one's that review coming really soon Maybe even tomorrow we'll see I got to catch up on a few things. So this helps define all of that and then The other advantage you have here because this is all as they referred to a software to find I can easily go here to any of these ports and add one of the other vlands and gain 10 gigabit connectivity to that specific device So once again, some of the software find networking features that Work really well with unify is I can on the fly just assign this and it will add that to that port And then without physically changing network, we can have 10 gig access For the most part everything just accesses via gigabit because many of the devices we run inside to here You know like invoice engine and things like that all the different tools that we run 10 gig wouldn't make them any better. They're all web enabled software For managing things on the on the network including this this server runs and it's just running over the gigabit one But of course the back end storage to that for the zen servers to be able to store and go back and forth Goes across here. So, you know, my iSCSI and NFS shares you want them on a separate Secure private network. That's why we don't add anything directly to the 10 gigs. These are all connected to the sfps Now to look at the other side of it That goes up to the eight port switch and of course some of these go to the office computers For staff and then it goes to the studio area. We have two going into the studio area This is actually how I can loop a firewall with a special vlan into my studio just for when we do the testing Then we have the unify access points We have different ones at different times because we test them here at our office If I just put unify ap's they connect directly into the 24 port So this is the tech area where all the computer repairs are done There's lots of client. These are all client systems here And there's those two 24 port dumb switches fed by unify. I'm not going to get close up because yes The wiring's messy It needs to be redone because they're started rewiring some stuff and he didn't finish it yet That'll get done later And then this eight port is what's feeding these two unmanaged switches that I talked about for the Tech area that I was in so this is kind of like just the feed for all of that So it's kind of the whole network layout. It's not too complex Um, it's pretty simple and it allows us to easily redefine things kind of as needed So we can grab any one port redefine it to fit a need especially in the studio area That's how I do all my testing in labs. And of course, like I said, these are xcp and g xcp and g and freenash freenash Which allows me a lot of flexibility and a lot of vm storage Space on these i'll do some separate videos maybe getting into the details of the freenash boxes If there's an interest in there and some of the other stuff But this is kind of the overview of how our network is set up and how it's laid out So hopefully that's interesting or comments or if you want to further follow what video on some of the servers we use Let me know. All right, thanks